In May 1935, KV 5670 appeared at Green Bros in Leeds where it was purchased by Rex King-Clark. Later that month Rex traded in the Singer for an MG J4 at Allens Motor Mart in Bradford. The last recorded owner, George Sherwen, owned a garage on the same road as Allen Motor Mart. According to DVLA records, KV5670 is believed to have been scrapped in 1946.
Inspired by Rex, the oldest surviving member of the BDRC and one of two pre-war Brooklands drivers left, David set about recreating the lost 'Brooklands' racer in April 2005. The basis of his project came from one of the very first production 9 Sports, chassis 45063, registered ten days after the 1932 Motor Show, and using pictures from Rex's meticulous photograph albums and diaries, which yielded many previously unseen pictures of KV 5670, David completed the car in April 2007.
Wikepedia tells us that Rex King-Clark, MBE, MC was a British Army World War II pilot, racer, photographer, author, and diarist, who once headed the Army Air Corps. He served in the Manchester Regiment from 1934, and in Palestine fighting Arab guerillas from 1936 to 1938, for which he was awarded the Military Cross. Outside his army career he raced cars, driving a Monoposto MGK4 at Brooklands in 1936, as well as achieving 59 mph in a Lombard and racing a