After the war she was considered to be too out of date to be bothered with, so it was not until 1972 that he pushed TT 3490 out of the shed. She was very rusty, due surely to the sea air, her resting place being only a stones throw from the beach. For the record, Simon drove the car down to Par in one day, taking about 10 hours. Jack and Arthur were delighted to see the Singer again, as were a lot of the locals, who kept stopping and saying "Is this your old car Jack … do you remember the time we …"
The car was first registered on 23rd April 1925 and was described by the Singer Ownwer's Club at the time as 'Historically Indecent', due to it having front wheel brakes. However, it later transpired that some time in the 1930s the king pins were found to be very worn, and rather than fit new pins and bushes, Jack and Arthur fitted a whole axle they had lying around, unwittingly updating the spec to late 1925.
The car was first registered on 23rd April 1925 and was described by the Singer Ownwer's Club at the time as 'Historically Indecent', due to it having front wheel brakes. However, it later transpired that some time in the 1930s the king pins were found to be very worn, and rather than fit new pins and bushes, Jack and Arthur fitted a whole axle they had lying around, unwittingly updating the spec to late 1925.
