Vintage Thing No.65 - Austin Hall-Scott
If anyone doubts that an internal combustion engine can ever be steam punk then here's the proof. Ladies & gentlemen, brothers & sisters, fiends & frankensteins, I give you the 10-litre Austin Hall-Scott of Edward Way. Engine and chassis were only recently introduced to each other by Oliver Way who was also responsible for Vintage Thing No.18 the Salamanda special, as well as the rejuvenated Mrs Jo Jo . I'm now thinking that when there is another Steam Punk exhibition, one of Oliver Way's creations ought to be included. The trick, of course, is to make it look like everything had been bolted together in one of the garages at Brooklands and used and appreciated every since. The Austin Hall-Scott has just the right amount of patina and epitomises one of the steam punk aims to recreate what a gentleman amateur scientist might have invented (with the help of his butler). If it's a little debauched, then so much the better. A couple of years ago at Wis...