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I've had a great evening.
A pal of mine here is an architect and occasionally rents his office space out for events. This evening was a presentation for Singer Vehicle Design. Rob Dickinson was in attendance and gave a brief speech on the company ethos etc.
I found him to be a fascinating bloke whose mind-boggling attention to detail borders on the worryingly insane.
Whilst the car itself wasn't necessarily to my taste (Jewish racing gold chosen by a Saudi customer!) he and his ever-growing team (8 people in 2013 - 40 people in 2014) create utter masterpieces.
There's currently a two year waiting list, but his biggest concern is finding donor 964's - five years ago you could get your hands on one for £15/16k for one still with plenty of life, but now they're fetching £30k for a dog.
Shouldn't really matter when the finished build can come to £5-600k.
If you haven't seen anything yet on youtube, there's a shitload of stuff to see about them. The Chris Harris video is quite good, but the one on their website where Jay Leno drives the car is quite good too. There's also plenty of shorter clips where Rob himself is interviewed too.
Apologies for the bag'o'shite iPhone pictures.
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