Daaaaaaaaaaaaaimler Sovvo Geezerwaft-a-tron. Warning: Bleb content.

[Guest Breadvan72]

Hey, my train's not until 9.15, but I am up early because I IZ EXCITE.  Also the boiler is befookered and my house is colder than a fat woman's bum cheeks, so I might as well drink tea, do some work, and start this thread.

 

Stage one: fire up FREE Bimmer and drive to a station of railwayness about half an hour from me.     Not my usual one.

 

 

 

 

 

[Guest Breadvan72]

But currently at COFFEE SLURPING stage in my freezy-ass kitchen.   I will ring the plumber as soon as it turns eight.

[NorfolkNWeigh]

I think its traditional to give some sort of clue with regard to destination and or car.

I'm jumping straight in with a Morris Marina TC in Morecombe.

( this is assuming I haven't missed something and you're going for sloppy seconds from another eminent shite artist)

[UltraWomble]

 boiler is befookered and my house is colder than a fat woman's bum cheeks,.

 Im going to have to use this expression today at work.

 

 Morris Marina TC in Morecombe.

Bonus points if it is for a photo of it next to the statue of Eric ( well on the road next to the statue)

[purplebargeken]

Gotta be something French. He's done Italian, German and British. The only other option would be Russian but that would be a steppe too far even for BV.

[eddyramrod]

Oh Ken, how could you?  You completely discounted American!  I reckon he's coming down here to meet me, Dan and the Minty Mercury, and wave increasingly heavy bundles of notes in Dan's face until he succumbs.

[purplebargeken]

Nah, I reckon European. Can't see BV dressed as Buford T Justice at all. Well actually......

[purplebargeken]

Dutch!!!!!! A Daf! Of course. How could I have not seen that. A Daf 66 maybe, in Terrana Gold.

[eddyramrod]

Japanese perhaps?

 

 

 

http://www.ebay.co.u...rc=1&rmvSB=true

[Dippy]

Well this should be interesting as BV has impeccable taste.

 

I think a nice Sunbeam Rapier (fastback) would enhance his collection.

[Longblackcoat]

A nice Honda Ballade, I suspect, with a rorty 1.5 litre engine and soopa-powa Hondamatic. In either hearing-aid beige or OAP-rinse blue.

[Guest Breadvan72]

I would love a Rapier Fastback, and did once give one to my dad as a present, but no Sunbeam this time.    I have done French twice (a Dizzerpug 205 and a Talbot-Matra Murena).  Japanese just don't it for me, and 'Murcan not much either.  The heap today is an Angloheap.  

 

After weaving through several small Oxfordshire towns at school run time, and finding the last place in the vast and muddy carpark I  just made it to the train at Didcot Parkway, and am travelling posh class because I am seeing a client later and he is paying.  Very swanky carriages the Great Western have, but so far no food or drink on offer.  I may have to queue up for a bun.

 

Here is the by now obligatory shite spottage in the car park.  Note primo quality giffer hat action.

 

Next stop, change at Swindon.

 

[Asimo]

Please let it be 

[D Spares & Tyres]

I had always assumed fat women's bum cheeks would be warm.

 

Well I never ☺

[Longblackcoat]

British, you say? Planning on putting a Chrysler Sunbeam in yer life, p'raps? Even now I can recall the ghastly Petula Clark adverts and shudder...... the late '70s really were another country.

[scruff]

Seeing a client later - awe inspiring confidence in your new shitter, G. Looking forward to seeing what it is. 

[Lukas]

Buick Park Avenue?

[Guest Breadvan72]

Swindon!  Gateway to the West!

 

Now on a second train.  It's heading to Swansea.  I gather that the forum's resident Swansea-botherer TEH skizzer is working for an honest wage up in that London, so now is my chance to steal his fancy motaz or maybe call on his glammo Missus pretending to be a 1970s porno plumber.

 

[Longblackcoat]

Wierd. I'm on a 9.15, also heading to Wales. Cardiff, however, not Swansea.

[barefoot]

... colder than a fat woman's bum cheeks...

 

Another bloke here, spluffing coffee through his nose at that one.

[Magnificent Rustbucket]

It is going to be a Series I Daimler Sovereign, I reckon. When I was a small child my next door neighbours had a white Series I Sov with red leather. I loved it almost as much as the red with beige leather Series II XJ12 they replaced it with (I can still recall my excitement and wonder as I beheld the mighty V12 - and standing on a wooden box to see it).

 

It always had a bit of a petrol smell though - and once dumped the entire contents of one of the fuel tanks onto their drive, before being wheeled away, stricken, to Drabble & Allen.

[Bobthebeard]

It is going to be a Series I Daimler Sovereign, I reckon. When I was a small child my next door neighbours had a white Series I Sov with red leather. I loved it almost as much as the red with beige leather Series II XJ12 they replaced it with (I can still recall my excitement and wonder as I beheld the mighty V12 - and standing on a wooden box to see it).

 

It always had a bit of a petrol smell though - and once dumped the entire contents of one of the fuel tanks onto their drive, before being wheeled away, stricken, to Drabble & Allen.

LOL

[HMC]

Lancia Gamma Berlina or possibly a coupe. That would make a nice complimentary addition to the BV collection

[For Fiats Sake]

I haz better things to do* than wait for updatez.

 

Italian - gonna be a Fiat, in fact one of my Fiatz, despite never advertising he's coming to buy a panda (plz).

 

Oi, you are goinz rong way m8!

 

And is a FWB colder than a witches tit?

[KruJoe]

Unless he's trying to lead us astray...

 

 

The heap today is an Angloheap.

 

[Sloth in a bowl]

I had always assumed fat women's bum cheeks would be warm.

 

Well I never ☺

 

 

I concur, I think he is using his fat woman incorrectly.

 

 

Dear Breadvan72

 

Stop using your fat woman's bum cheeks to scrap the ice off the windscreen in the morning.

It makes them cold and less pleasant to handle.

 

Yours

 

Sloth in a bowl

[Sloth in a bowl]

Please let it be 

 

 

 

Can't look at this without imaging all those sparkly lights on. I'm sure that's why they made the electrics dodgy, it is so much prettier that way.

[Justin Case]

No, I think that BV will be joining the select band of AS owners of Crewe's finest, the photo of another railway town is I think a subtle clue . But I'm sure that an older model is on the anvil. Perhaps a Silver Shadow, but although I have never met BV, I can nevertheless see him more likely behind the wheel of a Bentley T2

[skattrd]

Heading to Wales, Angloheap, is Skizzer flogging something?

[Guest Breadvan72]

Kollketionage has occurred!

 

Magnificent Rustbucket is WINNHAH at guessing.  I can haz boughtage of a 1973 Daimler Sovereign Series One, 4.2 Auto.

I haggled a bit, and got the car for cheap and cheerful, because it's a bit rusty, but not in a terminal way, as far as I can tell.

 

I always like to get inside a really dirty Tranny, and so was pleased when the cheerful and (I think) honest seller (who does architectural salvage and stone and marble stuff) met me at Bristol Parkway and drove me in his dust covered Transit van to the shed where he keeps his cars.  He's a Jag and Daimler buff, and has sold me the Sovvo to help fund work on a Series Three that he has, and to keep his neat mid eighties Double Six going.

 

Good things: MoT until August, new ish stainless steel exhausts, OK tyres, new full length Webasto, massive history file, low miles, drives reeet tidy like (really quite fast).   The horrid AED (autochoke, dreadful device) has been disabled).   Electronic ignition but in other ways mucho originalo - no door or wing mirrors, 8 Track stereo (working), windy up windows.  I am listening to RTE (Radio Telefis Eireann) on Long Wave, and very jolly it is too.

 

Bad things:  No manual chokes fitted as yet.  Cold starting needs a chum on hand to spray carby cleaner into the air intake. The rev counter is not connected, only one of the twin tanks is working and the fuel gauge is not working.  The heater seems not to be working.  There is mucho bleb around the bottom bits of the body, but nothing that appears beyond fixing.  

 

The interior is in fair nick - black levva and carpets.  The dash veneer has gone a bit near the speedo.  Trim nay bad.

 

Thing that most worries me now (I am at Leigh Delamere services for some noms and updateage) - oil is leaking out of (I assume) the diff, or summat else near the back, and dripping onto the exhaust.  Smoke, but no fire, at least so far.  I have, by the way, bought a fire extinguisher - I have one in every car.

 

This car, if it doesn't catch fire between here and London, is to go into storage as a slo mo fixer upper and maybe even as an investment vehicle.  

 

Anyway, phoatarze: -

 

Pezzer shot first.

 

Filthy tranny action -

 

Selected contents of big shed (the black Mark VII Jag is not the seller's -some other dude owns that .  It is mega pristine) -

 

 

The spinny, turny, explodey, noisy bit.  Note mahoosive SUs --

 

 

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