Dan P
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Post by Dan P on Oct 11, 2015 18:55:39 GMT
Really has buffed up well.. Good work!
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Dan P
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Post by Dan P on Oct 11, 2015 18:57:03 GMT
And love The luggage rack
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Post by joe on Oct 12, 2015 7:47:42 GMT
Beautiful! And what a difference just a bit of polishing makes!!
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Post by swissdave on Jan 9, 2016 17:30:56 GMT
Very nice, she is looking so much better.
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Post by joe on Jan 19, 2016 20:47:52 GMT
Beautiful, and I love the colour. Have you replaced the heater tubes I see? I could do with doing that as the original cardboard ones in Goldie are utterly knackered!
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Post by joe on Jan 23, 2016 10:58:33 GMT
That is a very generous offer thank you. I have a list of little jobs I want to do in the spring and that is one of them!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 24, 2016 17:53:16 GMT
She looks great..
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Post by triumph66 on Apr 23, 2017 17:05:20 GMT
Best of luck with the MOT. Look fantastic what you have done on it over the last year or so.
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gromsound
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Post by gromsound on May 13, 2018 20:16:52 GMT
Great job you are doing there! The 44 is not much loved, but it might be the most well balanced daf ever. an economical 2cylinder engine with ample torque at low revs for such a light car, and still all the roominess of every B type (including your 66).
one question though: you say 1975 model. but the 44 was already superseded by the 46 earlier (i think beginning of 1974, in NL at least). Could it be a long standing ''orphan'' car, sold long after it was produced?
Was the 46 ever sold in GB? it was stated long ago in the DCN magazine that it was not exported at all but i heard of an original french 46 last weekend.
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andrew
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Post by andrew on May 14, 2018 7:57:46 GMT
Daf 46 cars were definitely sold in the U.K. and brochures promoting them here pop up in E-Bay from time to time. The brochures use the phrase "Daf cars, built by Volvo" so it suggests that although the Daf 66 Marathon WAS changed to the Volvo 66, Volvo didn't bother re-badge the Daf 46 to a Volvo. I suppose the 66 could have been a "baby" Volvo anyway, but the 46 was just too "Daffy' to be a Volvo!
I'm not sure of the chronology of the design changes, but I wondered if the change from the Daf 44 to the Daf 46 co-incided with the Volvo take-over of Daf cars. If it did, maybe they saw fitting the Dedion axle to the 46 a safety driven decision, in line with Volvo's ethos. It also saved them having to produce 2 rear axles!
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Post by Richard DAF Webmeister on May 14, 2018 10:51:31 GMT
Yes, as Andrew says, DAF 46s were sold in the UK.
Indeed there is at least one still in regular use, owned by our own Joe, of this parish.
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andrew
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Post by andrew on May 16, 2018 15:00:58 GMT
Here's the funny bit: After Sunday it wouldn't need a test! Amongst the plethora of new M.O.T. rule changes that come into effect on 20th May is the exemption for vehicles over 40 years old. I'll still be testing my 33, just to be sure it's OK anyway!
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Post by andrew on Jun 22, 2018 7:33:25 GMT
Your 66 must have been a VERY early one; maybe even a pre-sales car, for Daf's publicity promoting the new car. Daf 55 cars were sold up to "K" registrations and some (possibly old stock) were sold with "L" registrations. If your 66 was first registered in 1971 it'd be a "J" registration (I think) which would look "odd" to me! Early 1108cc 66 cars were badged as "SL" but later this was changed to "Super Lux".
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Post by Richard DAF Webmeister on Jun 22, 2018 19:20:01 GMT
Your 66 must have been a VERY early one; maybe even a pre-sales car, for Daf's publicity promoting the new car. Daf 55 cars were sold up to "K" registrations and some (possibly old stock) were sold with "L" registrations. If your 66 was first registered in 1971 it'd be a "J" registration (I think) which would look "odd" to me! Early 1108cc 66 cars were badged as "SL" but later this was changed to "Super Lux". Yes Andrew it is odd. It is badged SL. On the DVLA system it has first registration date 01/07/71 which as you say would have been J I reckon something has been typed into the system wrong at some point, even if it was a press car/demonstrator it is still too early for a L suffix? I have since discovered that depending on what/where I check online, it is listed as first registered anywhere between July 71 and March 73 YouGov have it as 03/73 I agree. Definitely some sort of computer inputting error. A bit like the various different descriptions for DAFs versions on the general DVLA database. Definitely not a 1971 car - 66s were probably still on the drawing board then. |
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Post by andrejuan on Jul 15, 2018 16:29:52 GMT
Some news about this little gem. She is now in new hands, mixed emotions as I didn't intend to sell (or at least for a while) but the right person came along and I was happy to do the deal.
The new custodian was brought up with DAFS and has more than a passing interest in them, I couldn't have asked for a better person
to take her, and she will be getting finished much quicker than I could have managed.
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