Weird Car’s weird cars!

[ProgRocker]

Lovely!  What an epic colour combo.

Assumed that all Daimlers had leather interiors. Those velour seats look particularly inviting. Would love to be chauffeured around in this.

[Westbay]

Nice 👍

[Rightnider]

 Fabulous! Reminds me of my old Daimler. 

[Weird Car]

4 minutes ago, Rightnider said:

 Fabulous! Reminds me of my old Daimler. 

Those wheels are lush 

[Weird Car]

1 hour ago, ProgRocker said:

Would love to be chauffeured around in this.

10/10 would recommend 

[big_al_granvia]

very arfur daley, always nice to see a 70's jag that isn't on a oval...

[big_al_granvia]

btw is that jesi doing the driving

[Weird Car]

4 hours ago, big_al_granvia said:

btw is that jesi doing the driving

No 😭😂

[Weird Car]

2 pretty interesting cars to compare, Rover wins hands down on character, the great Daim wins on shear comfort and refinement, Rover wins on reliability, but they’re both winners in the looks department and the *not my Range Rover* wins because V8 

[big_al_granvia]

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[yes oui si]

Congratulations on both fronts. I have a real hankering for an s2 Sovereign.

[Weird Car]

I collected the Great Daim today, on my face the whole time was a grin,  a grin that suggested “I’m better than all you lowly peasants” as I floated along with Our House by Helen Reddy playing in my head like that episode of OFAH, it drove fantastic as I’d expect 

[yes oui si]

The last time I drove one of those was on a deserted A1 in the early hours on the way back from a Dillinja/Valve Sound System set in Nottingham circa 2004. Vastly different soundtrack but still 100% appropriate for the drive.

[Weird Car]

Racking up some comfortable miles locally before we venture up north 

 

had to park next to this NSX I saw in the city centre today

 

It’s a car that gets up to temp surprisingly quickly for the size of the engine, its had a manual choke conversion done and is off choke completely in under 30 seconds 

[AnthonyG]

On 23/02/2026 at 17:40, Weird Car said:

Yeah I had a message from the guy who bought it saying it was basically too far gone after some proper analysis, it’s definitely a shame and was a lesson for both of us to properly look over a car before jumping the gun 

The Buick’s bodywork looked quite good, despite the rather questionable roof chop. Was it basically all filler in the panels then? 

I know Huggy the Cadillac ended up on the oval but he had holes in the frame in the end. 

This of course, is on the assumption the banger racer didn’t pay £4k for it or something!

On a far more positive note, the Daimler is lush. Proper 1970s luxury, I remember a cover of Car circa 1978 which said something like ‘Britain still builds the best car in the world, but it’s not the Rolls Royce’.

[captain_70s]

13 minutes ago, AnthonyG said:

The Buick’s bodywork looked quite good, despite the rather questionable roof chop. Was it basically all filler in the panels then? 

I know Huggy the Cadillac ended up on the oval but he had holes in the frame in the end. 

@sdkrc's Galaxie didn't look too rotten, aside from the ususual lack of floors, but the exterior was sculpted out of filler and all of the body mounts turned out to be theoretical. Most of these cars were rotten by 8 years old unless you lived in a desert state. I think we worked out it was an east coast car before being dumped in Arizona.

The scope of work involved fixing up a full size Yank rapidly gets out of hand. I think the Galaxie used something like 3x the amount of steel than the Acclaim in repairs, plus the extra gas/MIG wire/cutting discs/paint etc.

I have a theory that 1 in 10 Yank classics that get shipped over are actually decent and the rest are tarted up dross that aren't worth selling stateside. We don't get average cars, it's either minters (priced accordingly) or scrap (priced at 4x what it'd be worth in the US).

[Weird Car]

6 hours ago, AnthonyG said:

The Buick’s bodywork looked quite good, despite the rather questionable roof chop. Was it basically all filler in the panels then? 

Roof and body weren't too bad it was the chassis, once the under seal started to get stripped off there wasn’t anything underneath it 

[yes oui si]

17 hours ago, captain_70s said:

@sdkrc's Galaxie didn't look too rotten, aside from the ususual lack of floors, but the exterior was sculpted out of filler and all of the body mounts turned out to be theoretical. Most of these cars were rotten by 8 years old unless you lived in a desert state. I think we worked out it was an east coast car before being dumped in Arizona.

The scope of work involved fixing up a full size Yank rapidly gets out of hand. I think the Galaxie used something like 3x the amount of steel than the Acclaim in repairs, plus the extra gas/MIG wire/cutting discs/paint etc.

I have a theory that 1 in 10 Yank classics that get shipped over are actually decent and the rest are tarted up dross that aren't worth selling stateside. We don't get average cars, it's either minters (priced accordingly) or scrap (priced at 4x what it'd be worth in the US).

From what I've seen, an American restoration involves coating everything in 2-3" of wob then sanding it back to a vaguely car-shaped object.

[Weird Car]

So after a 10 mile blast down the motorway yesterday the Great Daim has decided this morning that it really likes 1st gear, so much so that it won’t shift into 2nd or 3rd manually or automatically which is odd as it had a new reconditioned box less than a year ago and has done maybe 800 miles since then, checking the fluid it’s the right colour but a little low on the dipstick so I’m gonna top it off and see if that fixes things 

[High Jetter]

Fingers X, but honestly not hopeful 

[Rightnider]

Maybe a split vacuum hose, or a kick down linkage playing up?

[MorrisItalSLX]

If it’s under a year since refurbishment and you have the invoice I’d be enquiring about warranty.

[Weird Car]

I went to stick some more fluid in the box today as I pulled the bonnet cable it snapped,

 

flat blade screwdriver through a handy hidden hole in the arch got the bonnet to pop

Of course topping off the fluid didn’t fix it but it was worth a go 

 

7 hours ago, MorrisItalSLX said:

If it’s under a year since refurbishment and you have the invoice I’d be enquiring about warranty.

This is looking like the best course of action, all the linkages look okay and the kick down cables good

 

fucking fuck my life, I’m getting to the point where I’m so done with this hobby honestly 

[Andyrew]

I know nothing about these cars but being this era , are there Any vacuum controlled items on the box? 

Think @Six-cylinder had auto box issues previously on one of these jags.

[wesacosa]

jeez you've had some rotten luck lately but hopefully the box is under warranty. fingers crossed 

[Weird Car]

6 minutes ago, wesacosa said:

jeez you've had some rotten luck lately

It’s been almost an entire year of utter shit 

 

makes me just want to get a bus pass 

[Rustybullethole]

Arse. The bonnet pull cable snapping did make me snigger though only because i've been there before and clearly remember how much fun* it was. 

Tough luck times come and go. Your vehicles are lovely to look at regardless.

4 minutes ago, Weird Car said:

It’s been almost an entire year of utter shit 

 

makes me just want to get a bus pass 

Bicycles are great back up. Trains are nice too if a little pricey.

Fingers crossed for an easy fix, under warranty would be nice. 

[richardmorris]

On 14/03/2026 at 18:36, Weird Car said:

With the Volvo now sold to  @captain_70s it’s time for something else, as a few of you know @Jessi and I have been friends for close to a decade and are now on intimate terms so to speak, we’re obviously both very happy and we’re also happy to finally announce it but I digress, Jessi unfortunately lives up in Yorkshire which wouldn’t be a problem but I’m way down south in Portsmouth, my plan for a little while has been to buy a sensible motorway cruiser so when I finish work on a Friday afternoon I can just jump in the car, make the 5 ish hour drive and not be absolutely and utterly exhausted, so I’ve been looking at late 90s/early 2000s Jaguars, think X300/XJ8 thinking they’d fit the bill brilliantly, I then decided I’d like something with a tiny bit more character, think XJ40, turns out neither of those quite happened 
 

 

 

 

 

yep for those with a good memory it’s the Series 2 Daimler Sovereign I sold on here last year for a friend, it cropped back up for sale locally for a price I couldn’t resist and after a test drive I was honestly surprised at how modern it felt, the engine whispers along and is inaudible at idle speeds, performance is a similar story, subtle around town but when you plant your foot she’ll definitely move like a Jag should

 

the long distance machine of my dreams? Probably not but it’s a nice colour 

With a fozzy bear skin interior too!

[Six-cylinder]

2 hours ago, Andyrew said:

I know nothing about these cars but being this era , are there Any vacuum controlled items on the box? 

Think @Six-cylinder had auto box issues previously on one of these jags.

Our Series 1 Sovereign refused to go into top gear and the car went to a local gearbox specialist, for £100 they diagnosed and reconnected the broken vacuum pipe and all was well with 3rd gear returning.

[big_al_granvia]

total shitter for you, especially knowing why you bought it, sending you gentle healing hugs