USA too ! (UPDATE)

text and photo by Kit Foster : France, Germany and Japan were not the only "export" nations to get versions of the Austin Seven. Sir Herbert himself brought four cars to the National Automobile Show in New York City in January 1929, in hopes that an American enterprise would take up production. He returned home unsatisfied, but soon thereafter the American Austin Car Company of Butler, Pennsylvania was organised. The new cars, which appeared at the time of the 1930 New York show, had been re-engineered and restyled in Detroit (American body styles / Pacific Bantam Austin Club). For some reason the engines were a mirror image of the British version (merely reversing the blueprints?), but the bigger difference was new, jaunty bodies styled by Alexis de Sakhnoffsky, newly arrived in USA at ..... (>>>>Read More)

UPDATE: Wayne Yeats is correcting us(photo misinterpretation by Editor): "The car pictured is not a Hollywood but, a Roadster. The Hollywood and Riviera were styled by Alex Tremulis (Post Buehrig Auburn-Cord-Duesenberg, Tucker, and plenty more) and did not feature the side sweep for one thing."

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