Pilfered from the Old Cars eNews letter.....
Peter C
Austin Sevens Head for 'Mother Road'
CHICAGO - Six Austin Sevens have been shipped
from Great Britain to the United States so that
their owners can drive them across Route 66. The
drivers will commence their journey on Sept. 3
from Chicago, and hope to arrive in Los Angeles
on Sept. 24. The Austin Seven owners are members
of the 750 Motor Club, an organization founded in 1939 for such cars.
The cars and their drivers have already traveled
extensively in Europe in their Sevens, and four
of them have already completed a 3,500-mile
journey from Buenos Aires, across the Andes, to
Santiago, Chile, and back in February 2005. The
cars date from 1929 to 1938. Jack Rittenhouse
completed the journey in a Bantam in 1946 and
wrote about it in his book, A Guide Book to
Highway 66, which was another inspiration for this recent tour, 60 years later.
Further details on the journey are available from
Ken Cooke at
<mailto:ken.cooke@ntlworld.com>ken.cooke@ntlworld.com,
or Vince Leek at
<mailto:leek@austin7engineering.freeserve.co.uk>leek@austin7engineering.freeserve.co.uk.
Information regarding the American Austin Bantam
Club can be obtained from M. Sanson, 724 Maple
Drive, Kirkville, NY 13082 or
<mailto:marilyn.aabc@yahoo.com>marilyn.aabc@yahoo.com.
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