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About 14 months ago, my partner Sian and I were asked by a complete stranger if we'd be interested in his Aunt's 1960s Daf. We were at a local show with our '72 Daf 33 so it wasn't quite such a random question as it sounds! He didn't want anything for it but it had been off road for about 40 years and he'd rather it was of use (even as parts) than scrapped when he moved house. Believe it or not, we were (very!) interested but, as time went on with no sign on it, we just about gave up hope. Then, last week, there were a couple of phonecalls and on Friday we found ourselves borrowing a trailer and tow-car and heading off from Anglesey to Barrow-in-Furness to pick up a car that we knew nothing about except that it was red and "still has it's Daffodil badge". What we found when we got there was this: The covering of soot (inside and out) was from a garage fire a couple of garages down so, while it looked bad and made the car nasty to push around, it was nothing really serious. Having dragged it out, on 4 flat tyres and seized back brakes, we got to see the interior: How 60s is that? Optional add-on (for the UK market only) wood dash, red seats ans two-tone red & white door trims! The engine is very tight but (I think) not quite seized solid - it moved a fraction using the starter handle but I'm not going to push it until the bores have had a damn good soaking. Other than that, a non-existent footbrake and 4 dead tyres (they hold air but they're never going on road again!) I can't find anything that would stop it passing an MOT as it is! Even the paintwork came up pretty well after the typcal Anglesey rain got to it: She's now safely tucked away in my workshop with the soot being cleared and bits coming off at a rapid rate, with the hope of having her properly tidied and back on road for our first show of the year next May: She was formerly known as Bessie but we've renamed her Matilda by the way ;D
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Last Edit: Nov 2, 2010 0:15:52 GMT by HARDCORE
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just love the removable floor panel ! Hee Hee ....cant wait to get someone video-ing my belts when its back on the road !
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stinkwheel
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Excellent stuff, My nan had a daf when i was small as she only has an automatic licence:) I look forward to seeing this one done
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PhoenixCapri
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What an excelent freebie, glad to see it'll be going back on the road too ;D
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skinnylew
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awesome, freebies in good nick are always brilliant
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Got a bit more pulling apart done today. Had an hour or so free so it went from this: to this: to this: Everything undid without problems, with the exception of one exhaust bolt that looks like it was rounded slightly when last fitted. I almost felt sorry for a certain fellow Daf owner who was also pulling his engine today and, apparently, took 6 hours on a car that's in daily use. Almost, but not quite ;D
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chamba
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I bet you're feeling pretty lucky right now! What a find. I've never been all that keen on these little Dafs, all the angles look wrong, but they're so damn cool because they're different... definitely growing on me in a big way.
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I'll second that ^^ Looks like it'll come up a treat with some tlc. Superb find and bargainatious too! Love it.
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Wow, nice barn find!
Enjoy
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I must admit I wasn't convinced by the lines when we got our 33 (same shape, later model) a couple of years ago but my partner adored it so I didn't really have a choice ;D It's a Michelloti design which goes well beside my Triumph 1300 and they're great fun little cars to run round in - our longest trip in the 33 was 720 miles in a day From the guy's description before we saw this one we hought it might be good as a parts car - apparently "the rust has started getting to it" - but it's obviously way too good for that now we've seen it! The plan is to clean eveything off, get it up and running, deal with the rust that;s there and give it a blow-over to match up the odd bits of paint it's had in the past. The colour is "Rubila" but there were two versions of that and it looks like the bits that have been done used the wrong one. We just have to find out which is the right one!
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Oh!!! Just got an email from Lancs County archives confirming that they still have the original registration record for this one. 15 quid gets me a certified copy which DVLA will accept for reclaiming the original registration! That's looking a lot less painful than we'd feared ;D
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Thought it was time to update this one. There's a long-running thread on the Daf Owners Club forum about it, but even non-Daf Nuts might enjoy a bit of news now and then The engine turned out to be seized far worse than I'd hoped. One barrel came off without too much trouble but the other one resisted this: and this: and this: before finally giving in to this: Obviously that meant a replacement barrel (and piston cos I cut too deep) but club members helped out and, on 15th Feb, we got to this: and this: Meanwhile, my partner had found time to do a bit of work on the carpet and interior: So I started on the underside, rear brakes and suspension. The only bit that needed anything other than cleaning and painting was one small hole in the driver's footwell: Which was soon turned into an ex-hole: With a lot of cursing and crawling round on my back the underside now looks like this: That's in a Dinitrol cavity wax finish for now, but will be overcoated with underbody wax when I get around to ordering some. The rear suspension and brake plumbing is also looking a little more MOT-friendly than it was: That meant that I really had to do something about the engine bay, because I can't finish the brakes until the master cylinder's refitted and i didn't want to fit that and then have to work round it (and the plumbing) to tidy up the paint under there. So the last couple of visits to the workshop have gone from this: to this: this: And finally this: We've also now got confirmation from the Club (for DVLA) that all her numbers match up and her registration is correct, so hopefully a V5 will be on its way to us in the next couple of weeks. It's starting to look possible again for our original plan to have her back on road by mid April
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MK2VR6
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Best of luck, looks like you are doing the old girl proper justice. It's only original once!
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camper damper
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Another car bites the dust
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Always had a soft spot for this cars amazing you got it for free it look relay tidy what mileage is on it if you don't mind me asking
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She's on 17878 miles - so about 406 miles a year over her lifetime. Think that qualifies her for "one owner, low mileage" status ;D I'm a bit curious what will show up on the V5 when we get it. She's never been on their books so they'll have no record of previous owners - so will that make me her first registered keeper or will they put one previous (unknown)? If I show as the first then I'll have owned a car before I was born
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What a fantastic little find, should be a proper little gem when you're finished.
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Brilliant.
Nice to get a freebie - love the interior !
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luckygti
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Brilliant, what an absolutely top find! Looks like it's coming on nicely too I had spin in Paul's last time I was at Area 52! What a giggle
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Paul's has got the uprated 844cc engine with sportier cam and bigger valves - but it's also heavier and driven by Paul ( ), so should be a fair match when they finally meet up
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Really, a nice car!
Be carefull not to lose all the patina.
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