1964 Singer Gazelle series V, Jan. 1977

My father's second Singer Gazelle, owned by him from new, just before it was traded in. I have at some point dated the slide mounts "29/30 Jan. 1976" but I must have got the year wrong because the replacement car, bought new, was on an R plate, current from 1 August 1976 to 31 July 1977. When we first looked at the slides, my mother remarked, "what a smart looking car", and considerable effort had been put into keeping it as smart as possible (assisted by my late grandfather's body repair business, which my father ran for a few years), but the area around the rear wheel arch reveals the truth; my father also believed that a leak in one corner of the windscreen had corroded the bulkhead. It had done over 100,000 miles.