Sunday, July 1, 2018

Road tripping in older cars.

Drive to Melbourne

Be boring if I just said - well it was a 700km drive so what! But it was.
Bugger
Mileages were ineresting;
At holbrook it was getting    11.8 l/100km (what a shit measurment)
Launceston        10.57 l/100km
sat on 100 to 110 prefered 103kmp                                        

Ferry

 I'm boring and love the ferry. Sleep and food is great. We were on level 1 with the 144 as my wife (the owner) requested.
First on, last off and no caravans to boogie with.



Performance

Faultless I cant see why people buy new cars. Sorry wait till electric is worth having. Till then a decent 1970's car will do.





  Re did the trip in my 1970 145S

 This time Oatlands to Queanbeyan pulling a trailer.


 Got 20 to 24 mpg at 60 to 70 mph.

Shipped some flour up too.

Tuesday, April 3, 2018

Whats SOLD?

I can be contacted thru this blog.
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“Mrs Brown” 

2014 12 07 09 10 14“mrs Brown” was aquired in the mid 80’s from “Mrs Brown” and run for several years as a a fully registed car. She had some damage to the RHS rear quarter where the owners son had let it go down the drive and run into the carport. The door was also damaged in the incident. The car drove well and was used in this condition for several years till it was mothballed. (cortec products used).
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Description inside

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The varnish was well weathered and front carpets replaced with a non matching set. The car ozzed character and smelt of high quality perfume when ever parked in the sun.
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Description Exterior

The RHS has panel damage and there is some rust in the RHS gaurge rear of the wheel. At some stage the front of the car has beeen damaged and the grill badly repaired.
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Engine and Tranmission

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Transmission was rebuilt in our care. Engine ran well but was beguining to smoke on a trailing throttle. The engine was inhibited with A cortec inhibitor pack before shutting dow. It was last run last week. but has fuel pump issues. I would expect the brakes require some TLC as brake inhibitors were not used.

Blue Daimler

This car was bought as spare and because it had a good grill.
It is a Canberra car and has basically a straight body and no rust.
Paint is shot. It was originally a peary blue of the corgi toy. 
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Interiors

Completely removed and in storage
Carpets, sound deadening, woodwork, door handles, and so on.
All sound conditioning but requiring work - ie new door card, refinishing wood.

Bright work

Grill Excellent. and exterior body trim.
Spare rear light and boot handle

seats

Hard but complet. New rubber and Covers required.

Spares from “Mrs Clark”

We bough a crashed car from Mrs Clark in western Sydney for the engine and transmission
These spares are bundled with the “blue” body unless the body is sold first.





Bright work

Grill and exterior body trim.
Spare rear light and boot handle

Engine V8

The engine is complete and turns engine. Heads were removed to examine corrosion and pushrods.



Gearboxes * 2

One is for spares and the other is from the “clark” car.
Transmission and differential from that car are also included.
Spare differential and drive train.
Spare brake system including hydraulics and booster.

Interiors

Spares only. Was a bit of a hodge podge of a car inside.
Completely removed and in storage
Carpets, sound deadening, woodwork, door handles, and so on.
All sound conditioning but requiring work - ie new door card, refinishing wood.

Doors

4 white doors complete and usable. Little rust.

seats

Hard but complete. New rubber and Covers required.

New Spares

Gasket set, spark plug extensions, pushrods.
Ball joints

Sunday, March 18, 2018

Sold -Daimler project s for sale


After a decade or two we have decided to divest ourselves of our Daimler projects. So we have a Daimler 2.5 liter V8 for sale complete with spare body and spares parts as a job lot. There are enough parts to have two restored cars with some spares left over.
I can be contacted thru this blog.
2014 11 04 13 19 51

“Mrs Brown” ($3100)  sold

2014 12 07 09 10 14“mrs Brown” was aquired in the mid 80’s from “Mrs Brown” and run for several years as a a fully registed car. She had some damage to the RHS rear quarter where the owners son had let it go down the drive and run into the carport. The door was also damaged in the incident. The car drove well and was used in this condition for several years till it was mothballed. (cortec products used).
2014 11 25 16 57 01

Description inside

2014 12 07 09 09 50
The varnish was well weathered and front carpets replaced with a non matching set. The car ozzed character and smelt of high quality perfume when ever parked in the sun.
2014 12 07 09 09 41
2014 12 07 09 10 00

Description Exterior

The RHS has panel damage and there is some rust in the RHS gaurge rear of the wheel. At some stage the front of the car has beeen damaged and the grill badly repaired.
2014 12 07 09 09 24
2014 12 07 09 09 17
2014 12 07 09 09 13

Engine and Tranmission

2014 11 04 13 19 55
Transmission was rebuilt in our care. Engine ran well but was beguining to smoke on a trailing throttle. The engine was inhibited with A cortec inhibitor pack before shutting dow. It was last run last week. but has fuel pump issues. I would expect the brakes require some TLC as brake inhibitors were not used.

Blue Daimler SOLD ($1700) 0r ($2900) with Mrs Clark spares

This car was bought as spare and because it had a good grill.
We toyed ith the idea of doing a body swap with "Mrs Brown" but decided not too becaise of the integirity of “Mrs Brown”
This car is for sale by its-self or with the “clark” spares. 
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2015 03 14 17 52 10

 

2015 03 14 17 51 54

Interiors

Completely removed and in storage

seats

Hard but complet. New rubber and Covers required.

Spares from “Mrs Clark” SOLD ($2600)

We bough a crashed car from Mrs Clark in western Sydney for the engine and transmission
These spares are bundled with the “blue” body unless the body is sold first.

Engine V8

The engine is complete

Gearboxes * 2

One is for spares and the other is from the “clark” car. Transmittion and differential from that car are also included.

Interiors

Completely removed and in storage

seats

Hard but complete. New rubber and Covers required.

Jaguar 3.4 engine (sold)

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Engine bought in Sydney in after heard running in 1985.

It was inspected and inhibited and dry stored.
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Was to go into spare (Blue daimler) body but that would require butchering the body

145s ramblings

As I wait for a time to do the trip back south with the 145s Ive been fiddling and fixing. First the manifold as in the previous post. Sti...