The Dark Wob

If they were that shit the government would have rounded them all up and crushed them.

I was about 30 before I realised they weren’t 4 doors, and they were quite a common sight in the 60’s and 70’s.

Also , when this this p.o.s was posted on the other channel the first thing I thought was it reminded me of a giant Mayflower. No? Just me then.

I hadn't made the connection with that thing and the Mayflower myself but I do now see what you mean with that wing line towards the tail.....Really the Mayflower evokes the Freestone & Webb styling on Bentleys and R-Rs that was popular prewar. Like many coachbuilders, F&W never weathered the postwar years and the emergence of the Standard Steel Crewe saloons but the styling continued with Hooper whose heritage it is that Daimler continued.

The 4 door appearance of the little Triumph was no doubt imprinted by the quarter lights in the fixed rear side windows - a feature that also appeared in the "sixth" windows of early DS420s....

The lack of a bootlid, incidentally, on Standard Eights never struck me as particularly "austerity" when they were common cars, it was just a feature and little more inconvenient than lifting luggage over the (fixed) back seat of a Volkswagen into the cavity there. Or, come to that, the rear luggage space in Stiletto, Imp Californian or Chamois coupe whose rear seatbackss at least folded independently - just like the Standard did.

Many of the Standard's other cheap fittings were also echoed in the later Mini-Minor.

I'll echo what was said earlier, I've never liked them, but, I do like yours! It just looks like a 'proper' car that has been cared for and has survived the decades well.

Top buying chap

I'd put them above a vanden plas Allegro in the looks department, but only just.

Drum wrote: ↑Mon Feb 26, 2024 5:52 pm I'd put them above a vanden plas Allegro in the looks department, but only just.

See it’s definitely a case of ‘in the eye of the beholder’.
I think the Allegro VDP is fugly as fuck. To be honest I’m not that keen on the Allegro full stop.

I’ve managed to trace the non-functioning headlights back to a faulty ignition/light switch so I’ve rung my mate Graham Potts from the Austin Counties car club and a good used switch will be winging its way to me tomorrow for the princely sum of £15 (same Lucas PRS 2 switch used on the Austins and the Mayflowers, and loads of other cars).

Does anyone know anyone who refurbishes trafficators or can supply parts. These are really worn out and sloppy, they flap out of their own accord when driving which isn’t ideal. One is held together with sellotape and the other only returns if you thump the B pillar!

I do not know of a specialist repairer - I managed to cobble my pair on the Cowley out of autojumble bits and pieces but finding something that fits might be easier with this.....

https://mgaguru.com/mgtech/books/pdf/L400e_sm.pdf

That is tremendous. Well bought.

NorfolkNWeigh wrote: ↑Mon Feb 26, 2024 2:12 pm I was about 30 before I realised they weren’t 4 doors, and they were quite a common sight in the 60’s and 70’s.

Also , when this this p.o.s was posted on the other channel the first thing I thought was it reminded me of a giant Mayflower.
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No? Just me then.

Not just you, I thought they were 4 door until just a few months ago!

I still like the look of that Daimler Coupe. If I win eurobillions tonight I will buy it and pay you “£can’t say no” to drive me around in it.

Keep a bit of money back to ditch those fucking gopping wheels though....