tony barnhill
Great Pumpkin - R.I.P
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Hit the road at 5:30 this morning driving to Prospect, KY, just north of Louisville...barely got home in time to unload before the sun went down....here are photos of it coming out of its carriage house nest for the first time in 12 years!
Now, I've got to develop an "Awakening a Sleeping Daimler Checklist"! Its a 1961 model, straight shift transmission with that beautiful Hemi V8 engine....when I opened the trunk, you could smell lacquer....but I've all the records on the car...before his death, the PO (medical doctor) had it completely restored (in the photos of that time, its beautiful)...everything still is except the paint which has been banged on, leaned against, hit with lawnmowers, etc over the years....interior is beautiful & new, top is new, windshield & weatherstriipping is new, tires are new Pirelli 155SR15's that are dryrotted (spare wheel's not had a tire on it since repaint!)...I was worried about rust in the frame - beautiful shiny new (12 years ago) black paint....a good cleaning, go through the hydraulics & fuel system, new paint & tires & she's a $30,000 car!
Can you say,"HEMI!"
Now, I've got to develop an "Awakening a Sleeping Daimler Checklist"! Its a 1961 model, straight shift transmission with that beautiful Hemi V8 engine....when I opened the trunk, you could smell lacquer....but I've all the records on the car...before his death, the PO (medical doctor) had it completely restored (in the photos of that time, its beautiful)...everything still is except the paint which has been banged on, leaned against, hit with lawnmowers, etc over the years....interior is beautiful & new, top is new, windshield & weatherstriipping is new, tires are new Pirelli 155SR15's that are dryrotted (spare wheel's not had a tire on it since repaint!)...I was worried about rust in the frame - beautiful shiny new (12 years ago) black paint....a good cleaning, go through the hydraulics & fuel system, new paint & tires & she's a $30,000 car!
Can you say,"HEMI!"