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

[Guest Breadvan72]

I wished that I was in my SD1 on the way back from Didcot as the giffer Maestro that I spotted this morning (see page 1 above) pulled out of the car park just ahead of me and I followed it for a few minutes on the way out of town.  It had a Monte Carlo sticker on the passenger door.  We could have been 80s BL convoy cousins.

 

The Sovvo, meanwhile, is scruffy but ace.  Me knackered, but happy.

[barrett]

That looks really nice, but I'm most impressed by the size of the guy's shed

[phil_lihp]

You've done well, that looks ace.

 

That generation just seem 'right' with a bit of scruffiness and gentle decay about them and it doesn't look too hideously rusty.  You'll be very popular now too, all the cool kids are rolling in Jags these days so I hear.

[RoadworkUK]

That's way, way too classy for these beige pages. There should be a "platinum section", possibly sponsored by the National Trust set aside for machinery like this.

 

I drove the Queen Mum's XJ once, it left rather an impression on me and I've been something of a fan ever since.

 

[Angrydicky]

Bloody lovely. An excellent purchase sir.

[Clanger]

Yes, yes, the Daimler's all well and good, but what we really want to know is did the plummah show up and service your boiler (oh er missus). 

 

Oh, and the fat woman's bum, we need to more about this too.  Pictures would be helpful... unless they are supplied by Warren T Claim, in which case, no pictures is also fine.

[Junkman]

Does the interior light work?

[Lord Sterling]

As always BV, you have an impeccable taste in motors, I really must own one of these one day, if not, I'd like to try yours just to live up to that 'Arfur Daley' I've always wanted to be.

 

I do have a Beige coloured long overcoat, a pinstripe suit and a trilby hat of sorts...

[Noel Tidybeard]

Lo bumper winnage

[rml2345]

Those Series I XJs really are ridiculously handsome machines, like a sort of caddish bloke in a velvet smoking jacket and a cravat.

Top purchasing.

[Guest Breadvan72]

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

 

I haz TEH MEGAWANTZ for a Gamma Coupe.

[Dippy]

Im thinking that BV might be opening a museum of chod soon with his rate of purchases.

 

I very jealous it must be great to keep going on a collection adventure especially with the cars you choose all pure class.

[drum]

Too jealous to like [/huff]

[binhoker668]

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/DEEP-PURPLE-STORMBRINGER-RARE-8-TRACK-TAPE-CARTRIDGE-/201485135794?hash=item2ee9732fb2:g:b38AAOSwsB9V9GFv

[Guest Breadvan72]

I have totes actually BOUGHTED that tape, thanks.  Also some other ones, including a couple of brand new in their wrapper 8 tracks from ye actual 70s.  

 

My first job was tending bar in a big and rough curry restaurant in Birmingham, circa 1977.  I was fifteen.  The 8 track player in the bar constantly played either the soundtrack from the Diana Ross movie "Mahogany", or "The Best of the Stylistics".  I have got both of those on order from eBay. 

[jonny69]

Fooking ACE! I love old Jags and Daimlers.

[djimbob]

I had one of these in series two flavour, and it was a wonderful moneypit

 

 

I can't find any more pictures, this will have to do

[drum]

8 tracks play on a constant loop if I remember correctly. My school bus driver had two 8 track tapes that were played constantly through 6 years of twice daily half hour bus journeys.

 

30 years later, the tunes of Neil Diamond or The Hollies brings the smells and sounds of that rattly old Merc 21 seater flooding back.

[Skizzer]

I missed this!  And am now biblically jealous, of both the Da'haimler and that bloke's Big Shed.  Fantastic purchase.

 

 

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.

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Funnily enough, Mrs Skizzer told me on the phone she was staying in all morning "waiting for a man from British Gas."  SUSPICIOUS. 

 

Don't mind you having a go on the wife but there better not be any pawprints on the Victor.

[Skizzer]

I haz TEH MEGAWANTZ for a Gamma Coupe.

 

We should go halves on the next viable one that comes up at a sensible price.  Seriously.

 

(You might have to store it though.)

[Longblackcoat]

"The Best of the Stylistics". 

 

Wow, properly retro cheese, and as pimptastic as your new Daleymobile.

 

Slight problem with The Stylistics, mind you. From memory, the 8-track cartridges could only reliably hold 45 minutes of tape ...... which means  after you've played You Make Me Feel Brand New and, I suppose, You Are Everything (even though the version we all know is the Diana Ross cover) there's 35 minutes of ohmygodthat'sterrible 1970s rubbishosity.

 

Then again, I saw lots of Bowie 8-track on eBay, so there's hope for you yet.

[Guest Breadvan72]

We should go halves on the next viable one that comes up at a sensible price.  Seriously.

 

(You might have to store it though.)

 

 

The name of this plan is A.

 

[Guest Breadvan72]

 

 

Funnily enough, Mrs Skizzer told me on the phone she was staying in all morning "waiting for a man from British Gas."  SUSPICIOUS. 

 

Don't mind you having a go on the wife but there better not be any pawprints on the Victor.

 

 

I told her that I had come to check her flange.  She asked if I had the right tool.   [/Robin Askwith]

[Guest Breadvan72]

PS:

[Guest Breadvan72]

Better interior shot stolen from ad -

[Six-cylinder]

I hope the weather is good for Shitefest 2016 and we can have BV whole collection on display.

[Guest Breadvan72]

That would require them all to be working ....

[Six-cylinder]

That would require them all to be working ....

You have got until June!

[Andrew353w]

 

 

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.

 

Many (MANY!) moons ago (late 70's/early 80's) Our garage was on call out rota & yours truly was the on-call mechanic/recovery driver. Called by local plod to a broken down Daimer V12 at about 3 A.M. I attended, explaining that there was a £25 (+VAT) callout charge before I did anything. The owner handed over his Access card (THAT dates it!) I used the slide printer (remember them?) to take £30 from him (VAT was 25% on some things then!) which he signed.

 

I reached into the car, flicked the fuel tank switch & asked him to start it... It sounded perfect & the guage read full agian! The best example I ever had of "R.T.F.M, mate!" I countered his linguistic outburst with soemthing like "if you get me out of bed because you can't be bothered to read to booklet, you'll pay for the privilige!"

[Six-cylinder]

Many (MANY!) noons ago (late 70's/early 80's) Our garage was on call out rota & yours truly was the on-call mechanic/recovery driver. Called by local plod to a broken down Daimer V12 at about 3 A.M. I attended, explaining that there was a £25 (+VAT) callout charge before I did anything. The owner handed over his Access card (THAT dates it!) I used the slide printer (remember them?) to take £30 from him (VAT was 25% on some things then!) which he signed.

 

I reached into the car, flicked the fuel tank switch & asked him to start it... It sounded perfect & the guage read full agian! The best example I ever had of "R.T.F.M, mate!" I countered his linguistic outburst with soemthing like "if you get me out of bed because you can't be bothered to read to booklet, you'll pay for the privilige!"

But if BV calls you out the second tank is missing, then what are you going to do!