1934 Singer 1.5 Litre 4-Seater Sports
US8155 UK Reg.
Last summer at the Brit Car show (Sep. 99) in Los Angeles, I was showing off
my 53 4AD and a gentleman walked up with a cardboard sign around his
neck "1934 Singer Le Mans for sale" I had just bought my 34 LM so
I was only interested in getting some pictures of the car for future
reference. As he started talking to me, he made a comment about the 6
cylinder engine...my ears perked up....a 6 cylinder Le Mans ? I was
really listening now ! Well it turns out the car is not a Le Mans but I
was still interested. After about a month I finally had the time to go
see the car and yup, its a darn nice car all right. I could live
without it, it would be nice to have but I would prefer to keep the
money for my Le Mans. Although I do have a picture of one of these as
my Windows background and it was always in the "fantasy" list of cars
to own, its not a Le Mans. My wife had other plans however and 6 months
later on Thursday March 16, the guy called me back. I was not at home
and he spoke with my wife, by the time I got home I owned a new Singer.
Its a cool car and probably the most complete and original non-restored
34 Singer left, I have no hard evidence to back that statement up but
its hard to imagine a more complete unrestored Singer. And best of all,
NO RUST ! The car last ran in 1968 but I am told it was
running quite well at that time and it was parked due to brake
problems. So after my last 2 years of parts hunting for my Le Mans it
will be nice to just restore a car, just plain restore, and not first
have to buy the parts to restore, like I have to do on my Le Mans. Of
course this car kills my Le Mans budget for a long time, maybe as much
as a year but when you play with these old toys, you have to keep the
wife happy and she loves "her" new car.
I picked up the car Friday March 17, and here it is still on the
trailer on Monday the 20th, right after I brought it back from the CA.
DMV taking care of all the paper work, good thing we don't have MOT's
here in California. The only concern I had at the DMV was the cars
serial number is wrong on the papers but the lady at the DMV found the
number she was looking for on the frame so she was happy. Its looks to
me like a non-factory stamping but it matched the papers that came with
the car and when a bureaucrat is happy, you don't argue ! Soooo
its MINE, yes I have my wife's permission to say that.
Now the car sits and waits its turn, I guess it will be many years before I turn a wrench on this one as I don't want to have too many cars apart at the same time. Lets call this one my retirement project, certainly hoping its done long before retirement. But I have to finish the other Singer first.
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