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Mar 30, 2011 21:05:44 GMT
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Thanks guys. B'stard...there were actually new shocks on Ebay for £4 a while ago! I'll mb buy new ones when the cosmetics are sorted. I didn't notice the dirty carpets till I was a few miles down the road and I'd actually slipped the guy an extra £20 as he overlooked the crusty sill end. He's a friend of a friend who I sometimes play five a sides with. I was going to go to garage on way home from MoT place today and start on the wings but it was raining and I was passing my sister's place whose kids I never see so I popped in for a visit. Was funny as the police started following me round and when I doubled back to see her (as I thought she wasn't in originally) down a side street they were coming back up the same one. I kinda wanted pulled so I could show then the MoT lol. She lives in the posh part of town and I think they were suspicious of this old car crawling around. Back to work tomorrow so prob won't get to tackle the wings till weekend but I should really be getting back to my proper restoration project jaguar-daimler-vdp-66.blogspot.com/ as the Royale is supposed to be an 'A to B, daily driver' thing my 1974 Daimler Double-Six VDP project about 2 years ago. bodywork is now almost completea shot of the interior a couple of weeks ago when back seat removed for 1st time to do repairs to seat belt mount points. everything looks brand new but is 30 years oldrear seat taken out. seat pan dried with cloth and foam backed bitumen mat dried out in sun whilst this hole repaired
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Last Edit: Apr 10, 2011 2:28:34 GMT by foxy99
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Mar 30, 2011 22:41:38 GMT
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Talk about owning some rare luxury cars! I suppose having a Royale isn't a bad backup to a Damiler VDP at all!
Double Six VDP, didn;'t they only make about 1,500 of those?
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Yep that's right and you forget these things whilst you work on the never ending rust repairs as you don't actually believe it will ever be a moving object again But, one day it will go and then I can't really justify having the Royale....altho that might be rarer!....as I will actually be driving the VDP For the last 5 years in which I have been repairing the Daimler I drove about in a 1995 3 cylinder 993cc Suzuki Swift someone gave me for nothing . It was perfect for me but the body was shot and I spent Sept/Oct/Nov 2010 trying to patch it up for the MoT and it still needed some mechanical repairs. I was doing the repairs outside at night and the weather was getting really bad and I threw in the towel 2 or 3 weeks before the MoT ran out as I found the Royale which was taxed and MoTd for £800. usual wheelarch rotrusty Swift rear sill after some repairsI was disappointed to give up the Swift after all that work and it was soo good on gas.... goodbye faithful Swifty but in a strange way getting the Royale made me get stuck in to the VDP project as I had never had a good big car before and I thot 'if this is good ...what will the VDP be like?'
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Last Edit: Apr 10, 2011 2:29:50 GMT by foxy99
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Mar 31, 2011 22:18:26 GMT
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Love it, keep up the good work.
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Mar 31, 2011 23:39:33 GMT
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That's nice man. I love some nice 70s-80s vauxhall executive barge.... Velour. All kinds of wrong yet..... Somehow looks so right.
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foxy99
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Thanks again guys. The interior is something else . The car is actually quite plain externally, despite having a lot of brightwork, but each day I get in that car I smile. At night I like to pull on the interior lights and have a quick look at the back seat . The driver's seat is maybe slightly less vivid in colour than the others but there is no wear at all or any marks. Even the colour coded integral footwell mat is perfect and I don't like extra mats in cars so I was driving around without one so as not to ruin the look of the interior but the winter was so bad that I put one back in till the weather gets better. The mat in the driver's footwell now is the original GM part which fits round the accelerator pedal and is reversible for a LH drive car. It seems crazy that there can be so few of these machines left, also the Viceroy and Carlton. There are supposedly on 23 Mk1 Carltons left and that was a common everyday car like a Cortina. Apparently only 14 Viceroys and don't know how many Royales. Sad My brother in law got me a Carlton/Viceroy/Royale sales brochure for Christmas. It was Edition Number 4 from January '82 and I already had no. 3 from July '81 the seller of my car. There weren't many changes between to two but the later one showed the Royale with a new more modern interior (different door cards and Monza/Senator style dash) and I reckon there will be none of these cars left as the production run would've been ending around then so there would've very few of these made. The later brochure also showed a new exclusive colour option: Opal Green Metallic with green interior! a bit like the red-only-in-silver-cars option in the earlier brochure. There was also a new brown interior colour choice with various exterior colours. should a car as rare as this be driven every day in all weathers? I think so. If you're nearly extinct might as well be out there! underneath seats etc looks factory new when repair was being made to rear seat belt lower mount area....ironically - no seat belts ever fitted
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Last Edit: Apr 1, 2011 1:50:34 GMT by foxy99
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should a car as rare as this be driven every day in all weathers? I think so. If you're nearly extinct might as well be out there! Yes of course it should - bring it to Billing in the summer please (VBOA Rally) - I'll buy you a beer to say thank you for saving it and doing such a good job on a budget
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ummm 30 years of sweat in them suede seats lol
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ummm 30 years of sweat in them suede seats lol And numerous other bodily fluids and odours That interior definately suits the black exterior. Whats the plans for the bodywork?
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sweet car. actually saw this flying round the whirlies at night a few days ago, or was it last night?
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foxy99
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Yeah.....that woulda been me at the Whirlies. I pass by it at about 8 each night on way to garage and usually go round it on way home about midnight Plans for the body are to sort out the horrendous state I left the rear sill ends in (when I ran out of time before the MoT). This will basically be sand down the filler I spread all over the welds and paint with some black celly when the rain stops. I really want to get stuck into repairing the front wings to get that tape of but I'll probably deal with the rust on the front of the rear wheelarches first, when I'm sorting the sill ends. I could clean it all up with my sandblasting pot in an afternoon but need a new bag of media. Tonight I was back working on the Daimler tho and I really need to keep at that. I started replacing the inner & outer sills/front & rear jacking points/floor edges a few years ago and am fianlly finishing it. Was plug welding the bottom of the outer sill to the floorpan/inner sill tonight. Great to see it coming together at last. finally getting lower edge of outer sill plug welded to inner sill/floorpan interface on Daimler VDPouter sill was installed at A/B/C pillars a long time ago but bottom edge left till end when car back on all four wheels panel always sags down in middle but jacked up easily to meet inner sill/floorpan interface I'm thinking of giving the Royale driver's seat a light shampoo but the others don't need touched. Lastly. Would love to go to Billing in it but may need a bank loan for the petrol lol
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Last Edit: Apr 2, 2011 3:23:09 GMT by foxy99
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Lastly. Would love to go to Billing in it but may need a bank loan for the petrol lol Why? Oh just noticed your location - ooops Still worth the trip tho You should be able to get 30 mpg out of the car on a run keeping to steady 65
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Well. I got some primer and some celly on the repairs and things look a bit better but you wonder how long it will be before the car cancer (rust) comes out to play again Also got the MoT tester's oily boot marks off the carpet. Panel wipe on a cloth worked a treat . No pic of that yet tho. a car like this should have no rust on itThe drivers side of car has rust popping up everywhere. There is actually a hole in the front door and god only knows what lurks under the black tape on the wing. Do I drive as is or spend valuable days fixing it?
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Last Edit: Apr 10, 2011 2:23:40 GMT by foxy99
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What an excellent save. I think you have to drive and fix with something this rare.
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Personally I think this needs fixing properly due to it being such a rare car. I know you only bought it as a daily but it really does deserve some love. That interior is stunning, lashings of velour, fake wood and chrome trim so typical of this era of Vauxhall/Opel. I can never understand why they left so many switch blanks on the dash when this was the top of the range? Even the more upmarket Opel versions I've seen don't have a full set of switches? What sort of power does the 2.8 carb engine make and how does it go on the road?
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foxy99
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Weird. Consecutive posts by Mk2 Polo owners and I also have one of them (you can see it lurking behind the Daimler in a post above). I know it deserves better but it should really come last in the queue as it wasn't part of my plans. It is a bit weird about the dashboard blanks but as far as I know the only option you could get on the car was aircon and that didn't use the rocker type switch but I think the control for it went in the same area on the dash. 3 spare switch locations. front fog lights? air horns?....eh, can't think of another one The car pulls like a train. I went into Glasgow in it tonight to a gig and gave a few ppl a lift home and one guy was commenting on how it lifted at lights/junctions when you pulled away. Its great and would be perfect with a nice rust free body and refurbed wheels. looks ok from a distance, after a wash
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Last Edit: Apr 10, 2011 2:31:46 GMT by foxy99
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OK, spurred on by public pressure, good weather and the success of yesterday's painting on the sill end I dived in at the deep end today and whipped off the front wing (the worst one - driver's side). It was quite straightforward with no seized screws or nuts but I spent most of the afternoon trying to separate the electric aerial from the car. It was snapped off some time ago by some arseholes in the East End of Glasgow but when I saw it was the original electric one I thought it mught be repairable and didn't want to cut the wires or aerial lead which led to removing the radio to disconnect the lead there. The wing is pretty bad but and there is a cheap one on Ebay just now which I should perhaps buy but I reckon I could have the original one looking good by the weekend. car looks quite mean with no bumpersaveable?original electric aerial stopped going up and down years ago I reckon. mght be able to cannibalise this with a new stalk...when I bought car I knew inner arches had been repaired at some point. loooks like a decent job was done
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Last Edit: Apr 12, 2011 0:50:13 GMT by foxy99
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I'm glad the oil came out of the carpets easily! 11 out of 10 to you as well, for having the determination to give the royale the love it needs, even though it wasn't planned to be top of your list. At least the other project is under cover and not coming to any harm in the meantime. 12 months of neglect on the Royale however would be a different story! While I'm thinking of it, I'm sure there was a Royale on here about 12 months ago? Think is was a light blue colour, and a lad was starting to fix it up?
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Last Edit: Apr 12, 2011 0:55:56 GMT by foxy99
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Apr 12, 2011 18:45:56 GMT
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You aren't driving it without a wing on it?
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