My next project "La Petite Chanteuse"

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I know that this is a long long way from Chevys, Buicks, Mustangs or Corvettes but please be patient, miracles still happen. 

My son Steve has just turned up these early 1920s drawings for me. All I need now is a printer that is big enough for me to print them out to full size so I can mount them up on the garage wall.

Go back to #35 and let your imagination run wild.

Bj.

Hello Pat

This Singer when acquired was totally dismantled, even the chassis, if you look at my earlier posts, had been taken apart (they are bolted together). There was not even a suggestion of a body so I will be constructing that from the ground up. The drawings are for a 1922 Aston Martin. Previously I have used an earlier Aston Martin body style on an earlier Singer and on of all things a Dodge Four (See attached photographs.) The staggered seating arrangement is ideal for the Singer as the chassis is only 2;6" wide at its widest point. There is a connection between Aston Martin and Singer in that prior to starting his own company Lionel Martin was a works racing driver for Singer.

Bj,

8-25-2013

Five hours later and a start has been made on laying out the dimensions for the body frame and an order for materials e-mailed to the supplier for delivery early next week. Not the BIGGEST, the smartest or the "prettiest" workshop and certainly no fancy-nancy, state of the art, fully automated, power equipment but an actual working one. 

Stand well back!

Some light relief... Our son Paul and his partner Nicole are "touring" in Central Australia. Their emergency sat-nav beacon sent us this message with their location. Findmespot.com It is worth looking at the "satellite" version and zooming in on their actual location. The colour of the background is correct. That is why it is called the RED Centre!

Bj.

For all the armchair travellers here is Paul & Nicole's location today.

http://fms.ws/DZyFN/30.31140S/139.33458E