Inevitability

[wuvvum]

Ah ok. Didn't know you were a previous daf licker.

 

I am indeed.  Here's my previous one:

 

 

Ended up at the bubble car museum I think.

[trigger]

Someone fucked up, when they bought it from the Stondon auction they paid £1300 + commission! 

 

http://www.brightwells.com/classic-motoring/past-results/classic-vintage-past-results/past-results-10th-june-2015/

[purplebargeken]

Nice. No MOT since 2013

 

I like the 33 after having had a blue one. However, the experience was marred by me driving it into the back of a Vauxhall Insignia on the maiden voyage home. My first ever accident.

 

I sold it to a bloke who was a bit odd. He took apart a section of the exhaust and never put it back together. He sold it to someone who might be doing something useful to it.

 

My fave is the 44 tbh. With a 12v system!

[purplebargeken]

Running and big MOT should see about 1100 to 1300 quid. 

[Split_Pin]

Winning is in this thread!! Love it. One of my fave spots as a kid!

[fordperv]

fantastic just fantastic, I love this place

[Felly Magic]

Well bought, hope you sort it's teething troubles out. I bet KGF were there buying again

[wuvvum]

I sold it to a bloke who was a bit odd.

That does seem to be quite a common character trait with people who buy Dafs.

[Pillock]

CVT transmission just as much as a mystery to me as an auto box is, I'd be in the corner crying if I'd just bought something based on laggy bands and it was playing up. Hope it just needs a bit of a workout to get going properly.

[eddyramrod]

That does seem to be quite a common character trait with Autoshiters

EFA

[dollywobbler]

I'm staggered at how values for these have shot up in recent years. Doesn't seem that long ago that £500 was considered a bit rich for something fairly tidy. Naturally, I failed to buy one while they were cheap. See also Reliant Robin and Lada Niva.

[purplebargeken]

I know of two more Dafs being sold

[Snipes]

I'm staggered at how values for these have shot up in recent years. Doesn't seem that long ago that £500 was considered a bit rich for something fairly tidy. Naturally, I failed to buy one while they were cheap. See also Reliant Robin and Lada Niva.

I could say that about almost all the cars that I've been into ie; RWD Escorts, Mantas, 200SX Nissans, AE86 Corollas (this one especially). ðŸ™

[scruff]

Well bought Wuvz! I admired this at the Brightwells sale, didn't look too bad from memory.

[wuvvum]

 

Ah'm haem, as I believe they say in parts of Scotland.

 

 

More once my ears have stopped ringing.

[Jim Bell]

Legendary collection. Would like to be more like this man.^

[dugong]

I'm staggered at how values for these have shot up in recent years. Doesn't seem that long ago that £500 was considered a bit rich for something fairly tidy. Naturally, I failed to buy one while they were cheap. See also Reliant Robin and Lada Niva.

Buy a Volvo 340 1.4 CVT; they're still cheap - although the drift lickers have pushed the price of clean three door shells up a bit.

[barmatt]

Dave you are a buying legend.

 

Skattrd is coming down for a few days today, we might have to pop over and have a butchers at that little beauty.

[wuvvum]

Please do - I should be about most of tomorrow afternoon.

[wuvvum]

It was actually quite an uneventful collection to be honest.  Got the bus to Kings Lynn this morning with phone and AA card in pocket, got to my mate's and the little DAF fired straight up, gave it a minute or two to warm up then drove it to Asda to put some pez in the tank and some wind in the tyres.  Then off up the A148 - I decided to go back via Fakenham and Cromer as it's much the same distance-wise but a rather slower road, which I felt would suit the DAF better.

 

As it turned out it never missed a beat.  Ignore the howling of the Cléon and it's actually quite happy at 50, so I rolled along at that speed for most of the journey.  Once I got within spitting distance of home I wound it up to 60 to get past a fellow rubber-band-drive motorist in an Aixam 751, and it seemed fine at 60 too.  The transmission seems to "wake up" a bit after about 40, as the revs aren't all that much higher at 60 than they are at 40 - certainly not 50% more anyway.

 

It drives quite nicely - it's not the last word in roadholding but it drives much as one would expect a small light '70s RWD car to.  Steering is easier too now that it has more than 19psi in the tyres.  The wipers wipe, the brakes brake (although they need a firm shove), the indicators indicate - what more could a man want?

 

It is in need of a tune-up though - at higher speeds it does like the choke to be halfway out or it chunters a bit under power, although at idle and crawling through traffic (such as that encountered in Cromer) it's fine with the choke in.  Interestingly, the identically-engined R6 is the opposite - it's fine cruising along on zero choke, but tends to conk out at idle.

 

So I'm quite pleased.  Yes it needs some work (I'll be having a good poke around tomorrow, weather permitting), but it's not the complete lemon I initially feared I might have bought.  In fact, given that it's just done 60-odd miles at A road speeds, it's been mentally moved into the "useable transport" section of the fleet.  I might just pack ear plugs for the next long trip though.

[Felly Magic]

Sounds like it just needed to stretch it's legs re the transmission. Probably would respond well to a carb service and a good engine service too. Glad it got you home with no FTP

[wuvvum]

Been having a bit of a play with this today between showers.  Got pretty much everything working now except the nearside side repeater, which needs a bulb, and the driver's side washer jet which appears to be blocked.

 

Tried out the folding rear seats - one of the many nice little touches on this car is the two little metal loops in the top of the backrest which clip into two hooks on the bottom of the cushion to keep everything in place when it's folded.

 

 

 

With the back seat down, boot space is surprisingly useful.

 

 

 

 

Another nice touch is the DAF logo embossed into the rear seat backrest - just like an Alfa.

 

 

 

While we're on the subject of embossed things...

 

 

 

A poke around under the bonnet didn't reveal any obvious loose or split vacuum hoses, although they are looking a bit perished and have gone hard in places.

 

 

 

There's much more room to work on the engine than there is in the Renner Six.

 

 

 

I reversed it up onto the ramps to have a look underneath - it all looks pretty sound.  The vacuum pipes go from rubber to metal when they disappear under the car, and as far as I could see they all looked intact.  I didn't get as far as removing the plastic undertray from the transmission though - mainly because there's about 85 bolts holding it on - so couldn't see whether there was anything obviously amiss in there.

 

 

 

I had a bash at cleaning the years of Stondon dust off the dashboard with a bucket and sponge, but with limited success, so I went out to buy some dashboard wipes, as well as a litre of engine oil (it was low and all I had left in the shed was 5w30 fully synth, which would fall straight out of a Cléon) and some orange indicator bulbs as the rear lenses have rather lost their orange tint.  As I got home, Barmatt and Skattrd turned up, so we went for a drive.  It's actually surprisingly roomy in the back - I'm 6'1 and it was perfectly tolerable for me even with the front seats quite a long way back.

 

Back in the car park chatting about UMMs, I suddenly realised where the random bit of chrome trim I'd found in the boot came from - the top of the radiator grille.  Turned out there were still enough plastic clips intact to hold it in place, so back on it went. 

 

 

Ready for Pebble Beach now!

 

 

After Barmatt and Skattrd had departed I took the spare wheel out from under the bonnet to make it easier to follow the various vacuum pipes, and found this.

 

 

Pipe between the air cleaner and carb has gone AWOL.  That might have something to do with the running issues and the need for choke - the engine is probably running on the lean side without the filter, and it's probably also sucking all kinds of dust and crap into the carb.  I'll have to see if I can find a bit of pipe the right diameter anywhere, if not I might take out the original air box and fit a cone filter - anything's better than nowt.

 

I'm reasonably pleased with progress so far - had the weather been better I would have got more done, but I'm not in any great rush - the car's not going anywhere any time soon.  Things still to do in the immediate future are the aforementioned side repeater and washer, get the tailgate lock working (both door locks now work though), find out why the driver's door has dropped and then fix same, sort the air filter and investigate the vacuum problem further.  Apart from the vacuum issue which could potentially be awkward (if a diaphragm has gone), everything else is pretty easy and should be doable in an afternoon's fettling.  Not bad for a Stondon car!

 

Here's a pic of the dash post-scrubbing - it's not a great picture as I forgot to take one before it got dark, but the dash is definitely far less minging than it was before (although the carpets are just as dreadful / brilliant (delete as applicable)) as ever.

 

[trigger]

Just simply glorious.

[michael1703]

Best thread since mk1 cav resto, proper autoshite

[dollywobbler]

Love for hopeless old sheds. WINNING.

[cort1977]

Fantastic thread and car, well bought.

[MarvinsMom]

I know of two more Dafs being sold

two more you say?

 

can we ask for more details, i assume that one is the little blue DAF 33, which is the other one for sale?

[stripped fred]

Can't be many of these left now can there. Sounds like you've got a good one. Please keep us updated!

[Spottedlaurel]

Fantastic. Dare you bring it down to Shotley a week on Monday? I'm half hoping to get the 1200 there......

[purplebargeken]

It's the blue Volvo 66. Looks worse than it actually is, but a project car nevertheless.

 

The Essex Daf people are usually in residence each Sunday and would love to get their mitts on another Daf. Plus you can root around the parts barn