2021-02-06 12:31:37 | pauls writes:

Car to be at auction 2/21

www.brightwellslive.com/lot/details/502926

Auction description:

Lot 40

1964 Daimler V8 250

Estimate: £4,000-6,000

Sale Price £9,475

From a deceased estate; in the current ownership since 1966; only 40,200 miles from new; last on the road in 2017; starts and runs but will need recommissioning

As the original green logbook shows, this Daimler V8 was bought new by Mr Costas Christoforou of Weston-Super-Mare in May 1964. He kept it for two years and did 10,000 miles in the car before our vendor acquired it in May 1966 from Victoria Garage of Weston for £1,110 – although they generously knocked £110 off the price in part-exchange for his 1953 Jaguar MkVII (invoice on file).

Over the next 45 years the Daimler was always kept garaged and used on special occasions only, often taking the owner and his son to watch their beloved Somerset play cricket, or to cheer on England in major football games. The service book shows no fewer than 17 stamps up to 29,101 miles in 1978, giving an average service interval of only 1,800 miles. The car has still only covered 40,200 miles to date, subsequent servicing being carried out by a friend and neighbour who, we are told, loved the Daimler at least as much as the owner did.

When the owner died in 2010 ownership transferred to his widow, and thence to his son, the Daimler being kept garaged and barely used apart from annual trips to the MOT station, the last MOT having expired in September 2018. Invoices on file show that it received four new brake calipers in 2014, all the joints were greased in 2017 and a new battery was fitted immediately before the auction.

On arrival at Brightwells the car was soon coaxed into life with some EasyStart and ran for a brief time, although it is clear from the MOT history that it has only covered around 100 miles in the last 15 years and none at all in the last four years so it will need thorough recommissioning before being pressed back into use once more. Although the paintwork is somewhat tired, the car appears very sound and original with no obvious corrosion to the bodywork and excellent panel gaps. A quantity of useful spares are in the boot, along with the original toolkit.

Being offered here at a very modest guide price, this low mileage Daimler, with effectively just two owners from new, leaves plenty of scope for further improvement as desired. A much-loved family member, it is only reluctantly for sale due to relocation and consequent loss of storage.

PS: The Daimler has polished up quite nicely since the first set of photos were taken (as can be seen in the last 5 photos) but it is apparent that the paintwork is microblistered on most panels.

Reg No: 778XYC

Chassis Number: 1A453BW

Engine Number: 7A4905

Engine Size: 2548

Documents

V5C; old style V5; original green logbook; original service book; 5 old MOTs; invoices