Vintage Minor Register

For sale by auction on 8th November - Lot No 291 - http://www.charterhouse-auctions.co.uk Do not this one get away.

This is The Hon. Richard Buxton's car which has been in his family since the war - Arnott blower with it but corrently not fitted. I have been trying to persuade him not to sell this car as it has been in the family so long, but he put it on the market in July. Fitted hudraulic brakes. Chassis SV26464, engine 256069 (original). Richard Buxton, Holt Cottage, Alweston, Sherborne, Dorset, DT9 5JF (H) 01963/23014 richardcbuxton@hotmail.com. VMR member number 300.

Could this possibly have been a McEvoy conversion? I am not surprised that it has been converted to hydraulic brakes. Is anybody proposing to go to the auction?

Not a McEvoy conversion Simon, which would have been a Zoller anyway - done by the family some time back. Not aware of anyone going.

Simon Hodgins attended the auction and reports that Richard's Minor sold for £3,600 to a telephone bidder. A Membership Form was left with the Auctioneer (thanks, Simon). The car has quite a lot of work to do, including requiring a full (hydraulic) brake overhaul, but it did have a new set of new 350 x 19 Blockleys (£35.00 each + VAT) with it. We hope to hear from the new owner in due course, and it will be interesting to see if he refits the Arnott blower - perhaps in time for VMR Prescott next year! However, I think it more likely that he will sell the blower (watch eBay) and put the funds into the brakes, etc. Let's just hope he doesn't pull it completely to pieces - in which case it is likely that we won't see the car back on the road for decades to come if it suffers the typical SV Minor fate.