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Singer Porlock Plus Race Car Info Plaque at the Josefuv Dul Car Show, Liberecky kraj, Bohemia(CZ), 2015

Singer Porlock Plus Race Car Info Plaque at the Josefuv Dul Car Show, Liberecky kraj, Bohemia(CZ), 2015
I deliberately uploaded this cameraphone shot in full resolution so that people could make sense of it. I didn't realize that I shot it how the sunlight was wrecking its legibility in the photo. As you can see, the car was built in 1929, but restored in 2007 by Bernie Jacobson. The name given at some point was "Tiny Tot," although it's not legible in this photo.

It's crazy that the chassis number would be there, but not more fundamental things like whether it was originally built as a race car, who it was originally built for, etc. The Internet, as I've said already, has been surprisingly devoid of information, something that I'm finding increasingly common. I've found a website in Czech here:

auta5p.eu/zavody/zbraslav_2015/zbraslav_28.php

...which gives some, but not a lot, of additional information. The most interesting thing on the site is that the photo, also from 2015, shows the car with Czech license plates, so apparently this open-wheel racecar is actually street legal in the Czech Republic. It's only capable of 80Km/h, though, which makes it, in spite of its racing heritage, slower than many production cars of its era.

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