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

[mouseflakes]

It looks so tiny in the last car park photo!

[Guest Breadvan72]

Luxo posh el grande del swank interior.  NB, newspaper is the Telegraph, natch.  Fit for wiping feet on!

 

Photo is blurry because I was weeping with terror and joy when I took it.  I am now off to the M4 again - I hope that oil spaff doesn't cause FOOM.  Destination:  renty lock up behind Pentonville nick .   Geezahtastic, I hope....
 

 

 

 

[RobT]

Skizzer is in this here London at the moment apparently, doesn't mean he can't help himself though if he knows where The Shed is...!

 

Must be suitable for meeting a client with, so I reckon Jag of series 3 or XJ40 flavour.

 

Edit: Doh, I missed the above post.  U are a WINNAR!

[Guest Breadvan72]

It looks so tiny in the last car park photo!

 

 

Yes!  Next door is just some shopping hatch, but it dwarfs the Daimler.

 

Note also my shit parking.

[Bobthebeard]

When did these become half the size of a Honda Jazzivic? Mumble mumble etc....

[Longblackcoat]

Mate of mine bought an S3 4.2 for pennies and used it as a station car. The smell of exhaust vapour that must have been, I dunno, maybe 120% petrol always made me wonder just how terrible the consumption was.

 

9mpg. Nine, ferchrissakes.

 

He didn't learn. After a few sensible years in a BV-alike JRG 525, he bought a Mazda RX8. Late teens was the best he ever got, and frequently much less. Stupidly, he thought it would be quite economical "because it's only got a 1.3 engine".

[RobT]

 

Note also my shit parking.

 

Looks OK to me.  Proper raised plates too, I must get some of those for mine and bin the wanky black ones.  

 

Only one fuel tank working is no bother, lack of a fuel gauge may be tricky though!

[Magnificent Rustbucket]

Oh my, that is lovely - and such a festival of sensations: the mix old of leather, sweet wood and reeking rear brake calipers, melding with the heady sound of the straight six  and  'my love is a tall ship' lazily drifting in and out of focus on Long wave as you gently progress. Just wonderful!

[scruff]

Another WINNER!! 

[Magnificent Rustbucket]

 

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.  

 

 

 

Make sure it isn't sticking rear brake calipers. The rear discs are inboard on these - you wouldn't want them to get so hot they cook the diff.

[For Fiats Sake]

PL8 worth thousands to PAY PAL peeps or PLA GAL Bunniez etc etc

 

Top Winnage!

[xtriple]

Didn't think you could get Daimlers with manumatic windows? Very odd....

 

Get both tanks working ASAP as it is handy having the extra capacity as when they run out, they are fooking heavy to push! I do love series ones : they are the purest of the lot but for me, it has to be an S3, they just look so right. But, they don't have the awesome dashboard of the S1 so maybe I am talking bollocks again?

[Jim Bell]

1) do u do weddings m8?

2) will u marry me?

3) divorce.

4) I get car?

 

Very well bought. That looks amazing.

[Jim Bell]

This lives round the corner from me. I love it.

[trigger]

Well bought again BV. I'm insanely jealous of your car collection now.

[Bren]

I love series 1 XJ's because I has corgi rockets -

 

 

[Guest Breadvan72]

The smoke appears to have been caused by, er...coolant!  Green coolant from a leaky bottle in the back of the car, falling through the no doubt holey floor!  The brakes seem to be OK, as far as I can tell.

 

The car did have an episode of FOOMage, but this was idiot-induced.  Faffing with the fuel guage, I stupidly flicked the tank onto right and left it there.  There is no right tank (there is a spare in the boot, to be fitted).  At first I assumed something horrid had happened, but then realised that I had just starved the bugger of fuel.  AA call cancelled, car started, off I went again, and made it to London without further episodes of yaaaaaaargh.
 

The car is now in a storage place in Norf London.  The boot and cabin are full of spares - lots of chrome, lights, you name it. 

 

Fuel consumption, dunno, but no AED should mean not as terrible as some of these can be.  Only very terrible instead of mega terrible.   

 

The only tape that worked properly in the 8 Track was The Seekers.  Bloody Christian pop!  There are several Max Boyce tapes as well. Max Boyce, FFS!  Off to eBay with me for more tape buyage.

 

Mahoosive history file  still in car - will retrieve and study later.

 

This car is The Guv'Nor!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[billyboy406v6]

Lovely car , I want one now !!!

[DVee8]

That is fuggin lovely.

 

This place is just so POSH now

[brownnova]

Fantastic!!!!!!

 

Rather jealous over here...

[Rocket88]

Many eons ago, a friend of mine bought an extremely shonky series 2 V12..........in the dark. Along with it's many faults, the boot didn't open. Pulled into pez station for refuelling, and couldn't get more than £8's worth in either tanks, so assumed they must be full, and that the gauge was faulty. 7 miles later.....cough splutter...switched tanks...............same thing. Eventually got the boot open to discover that the tanks had been by passed, and the car was running on two 5 litre plastic fuel cans...............Original tanks were badly rusted out.......how we larfed..............

[Jim Bell]

I've only skim read this thread. I'm gunna read it fully later. With me trauseys orf.

[Six-cylinder]

I just love that S1, me next!

[anonymous user]

Are you taking up a second career as a scrapyard owning villain from the Sweeney?

 

The boot and cabin are full of spades

sorry, but that's how it should be.

[Guest Breadvan72]

I hope that the coolant was leaking from the seat via the gap left by the absent offside tank.

 

Now on way back to Didcot to retrieve Bimmer and go home.

[eddyramrod]

You haz Jag.  One thing you have precisely no need of at all now is a Bimmer!  Jag trumps nearly everything, at least that one does.  What a thing of beauty.

[danthecapriman]

BV, that thing is fabulous! I'm jealous!

I really really must have one of these at some point.

[Bren]

Jag does not trump six pot SD1.

[eddyramrod]

Oh it absolutely does, I've had both.  No contest!

[Timewaster]

I remember my boss buying an S1 as a bit of a project, would have been about 1992.

 

The collection went well and It drove quite nicely, then curiosity lead him to switch tanks.

FTP followed about a mile later and it drew up so much crap it wouldn't run properly again for months and months.

 

He ended up replacing all the fuel lines and having the carbs rebuilt and somehow it still was never quite right.

 

I think the mot man laughed it over the bridge soon after.