Short video of my Daimler Super Eight (2007)
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I was doing a bit of research on the Daimler name and it explained why the name isn't used nearly anywhere else apart form the UK and Ireland as it belongs to both Tata and Mercedes!
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But any connection was several decades gone before Jaguar entered the scene.
What one HOPES a Daimler delivered during the Jaguar-rebadging era of same running gear and chassis, is a more attentive final assembly and detailing krew. An "Elite" team, IOW - off the back of the smaller volume and high-line target market.
For example.. hopefully, the boot of your Daimler is more nicely fitted than the rather tacky treatment on my XJ8-L!
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On the shelf at my local Wegman's, surely.
More importantly, Bushmill's Green, Red Breast & such in our ABC stores.
English and Irish foodstuffs are as easy to find here as Polish, Bulgarian and Turkish.
it's the frugal Scots who are less fond of sharing.
Hafta raise Haggis from wild-caught pups, smuggled in at great expense, given how fussy they are as to their diet.
More importantly, Bushmill's Green, Red Breast & such in our ABC stores.
English and Irish foodstuffs are as easy to find here as Polish, Bulgarian and Turkish.
it's the frugal Scots who are less fond of sharing.
Hafta raise Haggis from wild-caught pups, smuggled in at great expense, given how fussy they are as to their diet.
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On the shelf at my local Wegman's, surely.
More importantly, Bushmill's Green, Red Breast & such in our ABC stores.
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English and Irish foodstuffs are as easy to find here as Polish, Bulgarian and Turkish.
it's the frugal Scots who are less fond of sharing.
Hafta raise Haggis from wild-caught pups, smuggled in at great expense, given how fussy they are as to their diet.
More importantly, Bushmill's Green, Red Breast & such in our ABC stores.
GOOD TO HEAR
English and Irish foodstuffs are as easy to find here as Polish, Bulgarian and Turkish.
it's the frugal Scots who are less fond of sharing.
Hafta raise Haggis from wild-caught pups, smuggled in at great expense, given how fussy they are as to their diet.
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True story on the elusive Haggis. Now and then "kilted" mate of mine found his then-younger and more daring self the underpaid HM Gov' British Consul, some even more impoverished African nation. HM Gov was strapped for 'foreign aid' cash or bribes, either one, as usual, so when he heard of the Japanese trying to curry local favour, he proposed to the local Gov that the UK and Japan do a joint venture benefit.
Japanese money was to build a game preserve and cover the cost of veterinarian-grade airlifting of wild-caught but semi-domesticated Haggis from their native highlands to Africa so locals could expand their world-view and take delight in their frendly frolic. Breaking them to the saddle for children's rides for a coin wudda been a local contribution. Can't be going about denying your hosts an opportunity.
All done up on official letterhead, and wuddn' yah know it? The Japanese representative there had just enough ken that Haggis actually 'existed' to miss the joke and formally buy into the JV?
Onpassing a bank cheque for the initial tranche of finding, yet. Or so his offical correspondence would lead one to believe, "inscrutable oriental's" as they can be, and Japanese diplomats seldom found dead off an overdose of stupid-pills at the game of "go".
NOW WTF to do?
Salvation from the greater of international incidents came from our man in the form of a letter of apology, but not for the pranking of the Japanese Consul atall.
Seems that HM Gov had to bow-out.
The Haggis flock in-training had spooked, gotten turned about 180 degrees, fallen off the craggy mounts of their native highlands to their deaths...when their genetically shorter uphill legs got swopped with their genetically longer DOWNHILL legs. Haggis living, as is their wont, a highly "unidirectional" existence. Down-gullet, more often, than down-crag, but there you have it.
Dunno what the Japanese guy did, might yet be doing his own raconteuring off the back of
gullibility of the Scots over the filling of a 'virtual' game preserve, but OUR man was still carrying the official correspondence about as proof and dining-out off the tale for easily 20 years thereafter.
Payback for sinking of Repulse and Prince of Wales at least only cost the lives of a few valiant Haggis, this go, so there may be hope for the "civilization" of their savage herdsmen, after all.
Irish? ME? You thought the Kings of Connail did ONLY white horses?
Some of their sons married Bavarians whose offspring married Lobscouse then Sassenachs.
Ah "perfidious Albion revanche!" That'll cheat the cats outta the pigeons! Wuddn' want to eat a tasty bird all at once, wudja?
Japanese money was to build a game preserve and cover the cost of veterinarian-grade airlifting of wild-caught but semi-domesticated Haggis from their native highlands to Africa so locals could expand their world-view and take delight in their frendly frolic. Breaking them to the saddle for children's rides for a coin wudda been a local contribution. Can't be going about denying your hosts an opportunity.
All done up on official letterhead, and wuddn' yah know it? The Japanese representative there had just enough ken that Haggis actually 'existed' to miss the joke and formally buy into the JV?
Onpassing a bank cheque for the initial tranche of finding, yet. Or so his offical correspondence would lead one to believe, "inscrutable oriental's" as they can be, and Japanese diplomats seldom found dead off an overdose of stupid-pills at the game of "go".
NOW WTF to do?
Salvation from the greater of international incidents came from our man in the form of a letter of apology, but not for the pranking of the Japanese Consul atall.
Seems that HM Gov had to bow-out.
The Haggis flock in-training had spooked, gotten turned about 180 degrees, fallen off the craggy mounts of their native highlands to their deaths...when their genetically shorter uphill legs got swopped with their genetically longer DOWNHILL legs. Haggis living, as is their wont, a highly "unidirectional" existence. Down-gullet, more often, than down-crag, but there you have it.
Dunno what the Japanese guy did, might yet be doing his own raconteuring off the back of
gullibility of the Scots over the filling of a 'virtual' game preserve, but OUR man was still carrying the official correspondence about as proof and dining-out off the tale for easily 20 years thereafter.
Payback for sinking of Repulse and Prince of Wales at least only cost the lives of a few valiant Haggis, this go, so there may be hope for the "civilization" of their savage herdsmen, after all.
Irish? ME? You thought the Kings of Connail did ONLY white horses?
Some of their sons married Bavarians whose offspring married Lobscouse then Sassenachs.
Ah "perfidious Albion revanche!" That'll cheat the cats outta the pigeons! Wuddn' want to eat a tasty bird all at once, wudja?
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True story on the elusive Haggis. Now and then "kilted" mate of mine found his then-younger and more daring self the underpaid HM Gov' British Consul, some even more impoverished African nation. HM Gov was strapped for 'foreign aid' cash or bribes, either one, as usual, so when he heard of the Japanese trying to curry local favour, he proposed to the local Gov that the UK and Japan do a joint venture benefit.
Japanese money was to build a game preserve and cover the cost of veterinarian-grade airlifting of wild-caught but semi-domesticated Haggis from their native highlands to Africa so locals could expand their world-view and take delight in their frendly frolic. Breaking them to the saddle for children's rides for a coin wudda been a local contribution. Can't be going about denying your hosts an opportunity.
All done up on official letterhead, and wuddn' yah know it? The Japanese representative there had just enough ken that Haggis actually 'existed' to miss the joke and formally buy into the JV?
Onpassing a bank cheque for the initial tranche of finding, yet. Or so his offical correspondence would lead one to believe, "inscrutable oriental's" as they can be, and Japanese diplomats seldom found dead off an overdose of stupid-pills at the game of "go".
NOW WTF to do?
Salvation from the greater of international incidents came from our man in the form of a letter of apology, but not for the pranking of the Japanese Consul atall.
Seems that HM Gov had to bow-out.
The Haggis flock in-training had spooked, gotten turned about 180 degrees, fallen off the craggy mounts of their native highlands to their deaths...when their genetically shorter uphill legs got swopped with their genetically longer DOWNHILL legs. Haggis living, as is their wont, a highly "unidirectional" existence. Down-gullet, more often, than down-crag, but there you have it.
Dunno what the Japanese guy did, might yet be doing his own raconteuring off the back of
gullibility of the Scots over the filling of a 'virtual' game preserve, but OUR man was still carrying the official correspondence about as proof and dining-out off the tale for easily 20 years thereafter.
Payback for sinking of Repulse and Prince of Wales at least only cost the lives of a few valiant Haggis, this go, so there may be hope for the "civilization" of their savage herdsmen, after all.
Irish? ME? You thought the Kings of Connail did ONLY white horses?
Some of their sons married Bavarians whose offspring married Lobscouse then Sassenachs.
Ah "perfidious Albion revanche!" That'll cheat the cats outta the pigeons! Wuddn' want to eat a tasty bird all at once, wudja?
Japanese money was to build a game preserve and cover the cost of veterinarian-grade airlifting of wild-caught but semi-domesticated Haggis from their native highlands to Africa so locals could expand their world-view and take delight in their frendly frolic. Breaking them to the saddle for children's rides for a coin wudda been a local contribution. Can't be going about denying your hosts an opportunity.
All done up on official letterhead, and wuddn' yah know it? The Japanese representative there had just enough ken that Haggis actually 'existed' to miss the joke and formally buy into the JV?
Onpassing a bank cheque for the initial tranche of finding, yet. Or so his offical correspondence would lead one to believe, "inscrutable oriental's" as they can be, and Japanese diplomats seldom found dead off an overdose of stupid-pills at the game of "go".
NOW WTF to do?
Salvation from the greater of international incidents came from our man in the form of a letter of apology, but not for the pranking of the Japanese Consul atall.
Seems that HM Gov had to bow-out.
The Haggis flock in-training had spooked, gotten turned about 180 degrees, fallen off the craggy mounts of their native highlands to their deaths...when their genetically shorter uphill legs got swopped with their genetically longer DOWNHILL legs. Haggis living, as is their wont, a highly "unidirectional" existence. Down-gullet, more often, than down-crag, but there you have it.
Dunno what the Japanese guy did, might yet be doing his own raconteuring off the back of
gullibility of the Scots over the filling of a 'virtual' game preserve, but OUR man was still carrying the official correspondence about as proof and dining-out off the tale for easily 20 years thereafter.
Payback for sinking of Repulse and Prince of Wales at least only cost the lives of a few valiant Haggis, this go, so there may be hope for the "civilization" of their savage herdsmen, after all.
Irish? ME? You thought the Kings of Connail did ONLY white horses?
Some of their sons married Bavarians whose offspring married Lobscouse then Sassenachs.
Ah "perfidious Albion revanche!" That'll cheat the cats outta the pigeons! Wuddn' want to eat a tasty bird all at once, wudja?
I don't know what to say?
I'm afraid I couldn't follow most of it!
But thanks for sending it to me anyway
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