1965 Singer Chamois , Actually went for a drive

Thanks bobajob , These are great for just chucking stuff in and carting it about .
This ones had a right pasting in the past , i bought it from a scrap yard in 1991 for 50 notes and cobbled it together with S/H bits and got it legal on a budget of more or less zilch .
For the next few years it just got hammered doing 13,000 miles a year living outside as a daily hack about , i pinched any good bits off it for the Singer and never washed it as it let so much rain in if i did a Rootes special accessory bilge pump would need fitting , not sure if more rain got in or more oil got out but it was getting quite bad in all areas , after about 10 years it was make or break time and i decided to sort it out so i resprayed it ( badly but better than it was ) and spend loads of time welding and sorting out the quite honestly numerous problems , During this time and right up until the present its NEVER let me down ,
Imps seem to be going up in value lately so if your thinking of diving in id do it sooner than late , Huskys are hard to find now and don't come up for sale that often.
If i hear of any il give you a message

Well its been months since i updated this mainly because not much has happened , the choke on the rear carb gave up due to the fast idle cam being worn but another cam from a dead set of twin SUs sorted this .
Transaxle started leaking but thats been improved with a new driveshaft seal ( although not cured completely ).
Other than this it continues to plod on nicely

Look's superb, sits well on those Alleycats

Aerial moved to here , works really well but required glass removal to do and a day to wire up





Arty shot


Forgot to add i had to change the clutch in October last year - an engine out job which was easier to do than wire up the aerial and probably quicker as well

Looks great.

Australia?

Blimey Dave, surely you could have had it made here???

Bit of welding required on the old girl - il let the pics do the talking but needless to say it took a hell of a lot longer than it should of .
I couldnt do a nice neat continuous weld due to the buckets of waxoil within - even stuffing damp flannels down the inner wing caused steam and a morbid fear of impending fire , had to do tiny blob welds to minimise the heat

Arty pic to finish off with - better than looking at rust

Thanks for your kind words - it can be a real challenge as repair panels are either not available - a terrible fit or in this case I never had any anyway - got there in the end though