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AUSTIN SEVEN MAN!

Norfolk-based Bob Thrower is, it would be fair to say, something of a legend in Austin Seven circles. Not to put too fine a point on it, the sharp and spritely 84 year old is almost certainly one of the most knowledgeable people around when it comes to baby Austins, and that knowledge has been built over many years of practical experience.

It all started back in 1954, when, as a 17 year old apprentice motor mechanic with Mann Egerton, Bob bought his first car, and like many of his generation back then, it was an elderly Austin Seven. The 1930 wide-door aluminium-bodied box

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