Back to back: Seven Special or Standard Special?

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Say you’re a young fellow with an interest in PreWar motoring. You’ve behaved particularly well in the last year or so and adhered to the rules of lockdowns and night clocks. You’ve made your homework online and didn’t catch up with friends. Then the time may now have come to splash out and spend all the money you’ve saved on a fun motor car, to use for some real fun driving. Hopefully, at some events this spring or summer when these will be held again.

1932 Austin 7 Gordon England Special

We picked out two very suitable candidates for you, both to be sold with Historics Auctioneers at Ascot racecourse on the 17th of this month. First, there’s an Austin 7 Special of 1932 with a lightweight and two-seat body similar to the one used by works driver E.C. Gordon England, who set six new class records during his first race at Brooklands. With its egg-shaped rear end, covered in blue vinyl it looks like the best Easter egg you’ll be able to find. It is estimated at £13,000 - 16,000, which is certainly not cheap but then it’s ready to go. According to the seller, ‘It is powered by a lively 747cc four-cylinder engine mated to a three-speed manual gearbox and is on the button!’.

1936 Standard Avon Special Tourer

Expected to make a little less money and also a little less sporty, but also very attractive is this 1936 Standard with Special Tourer body by the New Avon Body Company. It is believed to be 1 of just 9 Standard Avons left in this style and although a bit odd with its stump nose and short wheelbase it has a sweet charm the girls may well fall for! This one was restored some 10 years ago, with invoices to prove it and is now ‘guided’ at £10,000 to 14,000. Your favourite? Both cars are guaranteed to bring you some good old fun – something we all really long for, don’t we?

Words by Jeroen Booij. Pictures courtesy of Historics Auctioneers.

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