dkCambridgeshire Posted August 31, 2013 Share #5401 Posted August 31, 2013 Advertisement (gone after registration) Here we go Welcome, dear visitor! As registered member you'd see an image here… Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! Good luck. dunk Link to post Share on other sites Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! Good luck. dunk ' data-webShareUrl='https://www.l-camera-forum.com/topic/119687-name-this-car/?do=findComment&comment=2410094'>More sharing options...
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wlaidlaw Posted August 31, 2013 Share #5402 Posted August 31, 2013 Wilson, I have learnt a lot today investigating your clues. The car would be quite a liability. The Knight engine has an interesting history with its Daimler tweaks - I just looked it up. I'll post a photo(s) of the next car later this evening. Best wishes dunk . I believe Panhard, Daimer and the Bristol Aero Engine company collaborated in improving the sleeve valve engine. Even so I understand that the oil consumption of the Bristol Centaurus engine was measured in gallons per hour. An old friend of mine had his neck broken when his Napier Sabre engine (an H24 sleeve valve design), seized solid on his Hawker Typhoon due to a sleeve lubrication problem, on approach to the runway. He was very lucky to survive and went on to fly Mosquitos later in WW2. There is a well known Michael Turner painting of him returning over the Channel, just clearing Beachy Head with telegraph wires trailing from one propellor, after the Amiens Raid. Wilson Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wlaidlaw Posted August 31, 2013 Share #5403 Posted August 31, 2013 Dunk, I know what the car is but it's time someone else had a go. These with a bell on the front used to strike terror into speeding motorists. Wilson Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rona!d Posted August 31, 2013 Share #5404 Posted August 31, 2013 In this case I´m with Wilson Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
a.j.z Posted August 31, 2013 Share #5405 Posted August 31, 2013 (edited) Triumph? Spitfire? Mk II? Edited August 31, 2013 by a.j.z Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dkCambridgeshire Posted August 31, 2013 Share #5406 Posted August 31, 2013 0 to 100mph to 0 in less than 30 seconds ... with the aid of Dunlop disc brakes on all four wheels dunk Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dkCambridgeshire Posted August 31, 2013 Share #5407 Posted August 31, 2013 Advertisement (gone after registration) Triumph? Spitfire? Nope ... a Spitfire MK II could barely reach 100mph dunk Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dkCambridgeshire Posted August 31, 2013 Share #5408 Posted August 31, 2013 Another photo: Welcome, dear visitor! As registered member you'd see an image here… Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! Best wishes dunk Link to post Share on other sites Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! Best wishes dunk ' data-webShareUrl='https://www.l-camera-forum.com/topic/119687-name-this-car/?do=findComment&comment=2410194'>More sharing options...
dkCambridgeshire Posted August 31, 2013 Share #5409 Posted August 31, 2013 And another ... Welcome, dear visitor! As registered member you'd see an image here… Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! Looks comfortable dunk Link to post Share on other sites Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! Looks comfortable dunk ' data-webShareUrl='https://www.l-camera-forum.com/topic/119687-name-this-car/?do=findComment&comment=2410195'>More sharing options...
dkCambridgeshire Posted August 31, 2013 Share #5410 Posted August 31, 2013 Welcome, dear visitor! As registered member you'd see an image here… Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! ... very comfortable dunk Link to post Share on other sites Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! ... very comfortable dunk ' data-webShareUrl='https://www.l-camera-forum.com/topic/119687-name-this-car/?do=findComment&comment=2410197'>More sharing options...
dkCambridgeshire Posted August 31, 2013 Share #5411 Posted August 31, 2013 (edited) This car is 49 years young Welcome, dear visitor! As registered member you'd see an image here… Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! dunk Edited August 31, 2013 by dkpeterborough Link to post Share on other sites Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! dunk ' data-webShareUrl='https://www.l-camera-forum.com/topic/119687-name-this-car/?do=findComment&comment=2410205'>More sharing options...
dkCambridgeshire Posted September 1, 2013 Share #5412 Posted September 1, 2013 (edited) More clues: Welcome, dear visitor! As registered member you'd see an image here… Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! ... less than 3000 made ... popular in USA ... V8 engine ... made buses up until the mid 70s ... made ambulances which were a common sight in the 50s Best wishes dunk Edited September 1, 2013 by dkpeterborough Link to post Share on other sites Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! ... less than 3000 made ... popular in USA ... V8 engine ... made buses up until the mid 70s ... made ambulances which were a common sight in the 50s Best wishes dunk ' data-webShareUrl='https://www.l-camera-forum.com/topic/119687-name-this-car/?do=findComment&comment=2410374'>More sharing options...
wlaidlaw Posted September 1, 2013 Share #5413 Posted September 1, 2013 ....and was forced to change its name from the original one by the threat of legal action from a US company. Wilson PS The Mk1 cars had an unfortunate habit of flinging their doors open as you went round a corner and this was before most cars had seat belts Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dkCambridgeshire Posted September 1, 2013 Share #5414 Posted September 1, 2013 (edited) Welcome, dear visitor! As registered member you'd see an image here… Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! Non-steel body; fashionable rear wing design at that time. dunk Edited September 1, 2013 by dkpeterborough Link to post Share on other sites Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! Non-steel body; fashionable rear wing design at that time. dunk ' data-webShareUrl='https://www.l-camera-forum.com/topic/119687-name-this-car/?do=findComment&comment=2410407'>More sharing options...
stuny Posted September 1, 2013 Share #5415 Posted September 1, 2013 Late 1950s, British? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuny Posted September 1, 2013 Share #5416 Posted September 1, 2013 Oh. Perhaps the Daimler SP 250 (I think that's what it was called). I've not seen one in about half a century. I think it had a V8 engine. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dkCambridgeshire Posted September 1, 2013 Share #5417 Posted September 1, 2013 (edited) Oh. Perhaps the Daimler SP 250 (I think that's what it was called). I've not seen one in about half a century. I think it had a V8 engine. Correct Stuart. A 1964 Daimler SP250 Welcome, dear visitor! As registered member you'd see an image here… Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! All pics taken with Leica XV They were used as British police cars in the 60s. Your turn Best wishes dunk Edited September 1, 2013 by dkpeterborough Link to post Share on other sites Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! All pics taken with Leica XV They were used as British police cars in the 60s. Your turn Best wishes dunk ' data-webShareUrl='https://www.l-camera-forum.com/topic/119687-name-this-car/?do=findComment&comment=2410555'>More sharing options...
Rona!d Posted September 1, 2013 Share #5418 Posted September 1, 2013 (edited) I NEVER understood what the designer had in mind. I think the look was marketing driven This car seems to be "over restored", which (imho) does NOT add much. Nicely done though. Edited September 1, 2013 by Rona|d Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wlaidlaw Posted September 1, 2013 Share #5419 Posted September 1, 2013 I NEVER understood what the designer had in mind. I think the look was marketing driven This car seems to be "over restored", which (imho) does NOT add much. Nicely done though. ...but didn't it make the MGB seem slow and dull. The engines, designed by Edward Turner of Triumph motorcycle fame, are a bit fragile and most now have got steel main bearing caps, as the spindly aluminium originals tended to break. Both my brother in law and my business partner rebuilt one of these in the late 1960's. At that time there were very few specialist classic car part companies and you had to rely on the manufacturers, who really were not interested. I lived in Brondesbury Park in London just up the road from Stratstone's in Willesden Lane, the main Daimler dealer in London. I used to be given shopping lists of parts to try and get. It reached the point that the storesman would hide under the counter when he saw me coming. Wilson Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rona!d Posted September 2, 2013 Share #5420 Posted September 2, 2013 (edited) Sounds like my joke about Bristols London showroom ("We are not here to sell you a car, we are here to lock the door, when new customers arrive":rolleyes:) Daimler design: It´s an E-Type, it´s a frog eye, it´s a pig, it´s a TR 4, it´s a Reliant - NO, it´s all of them Edited September 2, 2013 by Rona|d Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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