Shown at this year's Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance, where it won the "Best of Show" award.
Shown at this year's Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance, where it won the "Best of Show" award.
Announced October 1930 and matched with the new Daimler Fluid Flywheel and Wilson pre-selective half-automatically changing four-speed gearbox.
Bore and stroke 81.5 mm x 104 mm gave a swept volume of 6511 cc. Tax rating 49.4 hp
Cylinder block a one-piece light alloy casting.
Source: wikipedia.org
Lack of charisma can be fatal.
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Daimler Double Six #3
Lack of charisma can be fatal.
Visca Catalunya!
Daimler Double Six #4
Lack of charisma can be fatal.
Visca Catalunya!
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I'd never seen this Daimler before, and it is exceptional.
This is fantastic. It reminds me of the Bucciali, except restrained and English instead of Italian and flamboyant. I'm not sure any car with a ten-foot hood could be considered restrained, actually...
EDIT: Notes of Isotta Fraschini as well.
Between the fluid coupling and the self-shifting planetary gearbox, this is essentially an underripe version of the torque-converter slushbox we know and love. No clutching, or declutching, and no shifting, just "selecting". Essentially they've taken car of all the skillful aspects of driving a manual while still outsourcing the computational and decision-making processes to the soft lump of flesh behind the wheel. All that's missing is the hydromechanical computer and it would be there.
The sleeve-valved engines they used were also used by such interwar luminaries as Panhard and Voisin and literally every period manufacturer of high-performance aeroengines.
Cool car. Way too cool for a dowdy British monarch.
Last edited by f6fhellcat13; 03-06-2016 at 02:14 PM.
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