These are some snapshots I took of a rare car I spotted on the way to the local velodrome. It's probably 1935 or 1936 and was the hottest Singer made. It's obvious that this car is used hard, which I think is a good thing. It's being kept alive and used for its original purpose instead of being left to die in a museum as an exhibit. I think it's had a few mods. e.g. I don't think the original shocks would have been telescopic, hydraulic.

Triple windscreen wipers. Fold-down windscreen backed up by individual, adjustable screens. This thing is a classic. Lots of mud and a few scratches, too


Note the plastic pipe running from the temperature gauge on the top of the radiator. That is definitely not original. And the driver's door looks like it doesn't close fully.


Two spare wheels? Cool. Exhaust pipe is definitely not original. See the carb intakes sticking out on the left?


Carb detail - looks like twin SUs. Oh the fun of balancing those :evil:

Richard.

[daacon]

Man I would to own that car - well spotted.

[Sailor]

Cool, Richard. I don't think I've ever seen a Singer in the flesh; this one has an interesting color.

Jer

[RichardS]

Thanks, guys. The colour is about right on my monitor. Definitely not original

Just noticed that reducing the size has introduced some strange artifacts in the bar that joins the three wipers. Ah well, it is what it is.

Richard.

[charliezap]

Interesting wheels Richard and well shot.--charliezap

[RichardS]

Thanks, Charlie.

[Bruce Clark]

My Uncle had Singer in the 1950's. I can just barely remember it. I don't think I have seen one since. It is terrific to see a vehicle like this being used for what it was intended.

[RobA_Oz]

One of these used to park in the street just along from me when I was a schoolboy in the 1960s. I don't think the wheels on this one are original, except the two spares. Singer sports cars were reputed to be streets ahead of the equivalent MGs of the time, with their lovely little OHC 4-cylinder engine, that survived in the 4AD of the 1950s, but their didn't have the magic name of the MGs, which by then were long degraded through using a fairly pedestrian but warmed-over push-rod engine from a wheezy little Morris sedan. The MGs though were cheaper and could be tuned to go faster, so they survived until the 1970s, whereas Singer was gone by the mid 1950s.

Thanks for sharing the photos, they brought back some good memories for me.