Who Knew? (or) Yes I'm that Bored

[Nodzed]

The first BMW car was in fact an Austin 7 made under license and called the BMW 3/15 (Dixi)

 

[Shelly]

That’s interesting to no
Bet the car would be worth a few Bob now

 

[TrevD66]

Here’s the Austin 7 it was based on.... this one is 1932

 

[TrevD66]

This one is in the family..... one of my fathers collection

 

[AleNod]

That I did know. Growing up in the early 70's the Old Man had a couple of 33/34 Box Saloons (as the rather good looking example above). The Austin 7 club at that time used to delight in telling this story.

One bit of folk lore I'm not sure if it was true (I was only little), to make it left hand drive all they did to that first car was mirror image the plans. But the side effect of that was, all the threads reversed, so left hand became right hand or vice versa. Which meant parts may look like they were interchangeable, but werent.

Does anyone know if that is true ? Or an urban legend told to fascinate a little kid . . . ?

 

[Nodzed]

Now I understand why @Sean d sprayed his Zed Austin Yellow, a hark back to BMW heritage .........

 

[Z Victor 1]

So we gave BMW an Austin 7, but got the better deal when we got the Frazer Nash BMW.!!