Friday, December 5, 2014

Daimlers for sale.

Daimler project 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 or Facebook I will then send you my phone number.

“Mrs Brown” ($5200)

2014 12 07 09 10 14“mrs Brown” was aquired in the mid 80’s from “Mrs Brown” and rin 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).

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 ($2400)

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”

Interiors

Completely removed and in storage

seats

Hard but complet. New rubber and Covers required.

Spares from “Mrs Clark” ($2600)

We bough a crashed car from Mrs Clark in western Sydney for the engine and transmission

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 ($1200)

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Engine bought after heard running in 1985.

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Was to go into spare (Blue daimler) body but that would require butchering the body

Monday, April 28, 2014

164 Project


Before washing after retrieval from “storage"
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Birds… and an early note that the car was lowered early on in its life.
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Nice wider wheels and period modified exhaust.
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Interior - small wheel is Ugh but will stay - an Rsport gauge will be fitted - currently in shed.
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Wheeltwo3


Mvc 017s
Engine bay is nice and clean except where the rats stored acorns...
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Much cleaner after a wash.
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Some nice bright anodising.
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Wednesday, April 23, 2014

144s for sale (now sold!)

 144s is available registered in NSW. 1972 personal import. Drove over from England to india then shipped to Oz. Lived at Wagga Wagga. Has a nice lazy lolop due to a nice diff ratio. Some rust witch is stable in the inland environment. Treated with tannates and other magic muck. Has a 123 ingition system. nice interior. Carbs rebuilt but need to be reset again. New battery, nice tyres and rego till .. bugger cant look at the sticker... 

2011 01 30 12 54 25
As used
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SU carbs fitted

2012 03 17 17 13 28
Ouch
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Result of son finding a pole in a car park panel replaced
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2014
P8220051

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2014
P8220055
2011
P8220053
2011
P8220058
2011
P8220062
2011
P8220069
mileage
P8220072
interior
P8220076
P8220070
interior
P8220073
ditto

Monday, July 22, 2013

Parts for recycling and resale

This is a list that will be edited and grow with Photos over time.

 

Volvo parts for recycling and resale
144
Plastic late mode grills
Early grill in original bag
Instrument panels old and late
Interior plastic
Boot rubbers
Spare doors
Bonnets
Tow bars

165
Aluminium grill
Plastic tubes 
Interior plastic
Carpets blue early and oz assembly
Engines
Manual transmissions
Couch pedal assembly
Front king springs 164
Sound defening
Seats
"computers" 
Spare doors
Bonnets
Front suspension and cros membrrs

Tuesday, June 4, 2013

MPG

sat down and calculated her MPG over the past few months. 

Interesting - in General they vary from 17.7 to 28 mpg. Some of the low ones are suspect but indicate hard work on crap fuel or evaporation..

Since Iǘe owned ḧer¨ (or is it a him) weve acheived 23- 27 MPG. I must admit Iḿ tempted to take her to Canberra just to see the MPG she gets.

We use 98 octaine if available. We try to never use less than 95 octaine

Wednesday, May 8, 2013

Another 145s

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The excuse to buy this vehicle was it was tasmanian registered and I needed a tasmanian registered car so I did not get charges "mainlander" prices when I went to buy things. 

Actually it was just a beautiful, well preserved original car with complete documentation owned by a passionate owner who wanted to see it handed on to the next trustee.  Problem is my other early 145s had to go as we just have too many cars. I will write a blog on the other car later. But it is already spoken for...

This car is a 1970 build delivers through the overseas buyer program at Gothenburg in Feb 1971. Through the service booklet you can see it travel round europe england and Ireland. It arrived back in  Australia in June 1972 for its first Australian service. 

It migrated to Tasmania via a new owner and by 1996 had covered 132,000 miles only. Much loved and used for longer trips I am told. 

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Accessories fitted are, cargo cage - from a ford. 

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Swedish tow bar.

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Window shields (volvo)

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Central console.

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"sound"

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Sports wheel and Tachometer.

For its age the interior is stunningly immaculate.

The seat has sagged and been repaired.  The dash is untracked.. :-)

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A crag davis thermal fan, Spotlights and a Fiam air horn are also fitted.

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As is the warm air intake off the exhaust manifold.

Drives wonderfully. Does need some new bushes but thats really minor as I have a set in the stash.

I will fit a 123 ignition system.. but have yet to decide when that will happen. 

It sits happily on 65-70 but I tend to sit at about 60.

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engine bay

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Spot lights

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rags and relay for the horns.

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One of the interesting things about the car is the cigarette lighter is set up as a ignition lock out - embarrassing when you forget.

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...