2023-01-28 11:36:42 | pauls writes:

Car to be at auction 2/23

www.silverstoneauctions.com/1983-daimler-sovereign-rec12174-1-stoneleigh-0223&pn=1&pp=100

Auction description:

Race Retro Classic and Competition Car Sale 2023

1983 Daimler Sovereign 4.2-Litre Vanden Plas - 7,700 miles

Registration Number A566 MTT

MOT Expiry 31/01/2024

Chassis Number SADDCRLP3CC376178

Engine Number 8L149899H

Transmission Automatic

Body Colour Clarendon Blue

Family owned for nearly four decades, chauffeur driven in dry weather only and the finest example we have ever seen.

GUIDE PRICE: £35,000 - £40,000

This Daimler 4.2’s story starts with the formidable Mrs. Gladys Lewis of Torquay, who refused to be driven in her husband’s Ford. Eschewing the ostentations of a Rolls, she instructed her husband to order the finest alternative motorcar. Supplied by Dutton Forshaw Torquay in the name of her husband Mr Arthur Lewis, the Daimler was delivered in the classic colour scheme of Clarendon Blue with Doeskin Leather and fitted as per the specification with the enhanced Vanden Plas trim and optional “Kent” alloy wheels, on the 19th December 1983.

Always garaged, a signed letter by her son, Mr. Robert Lewis, confirms the occasional use over thirty-seven years, with Mrs Lewis preferring dry weather shopping on the three-mile round trip and, if it rained, the outing was cancelled. Initially driven by her husband with Gladys settled in the rear, the gardener took over chauffeuring responsibilities in later years, until her passing at the grand old age of 100 in 2011. Her son then inherited the car and maintained it with local specialists, selling it in 2020 with 7,507 miles on the odometer, as confirmed in the accompanying signed letter.

The car is presented to auction, with recent bills of over £5,000 from a no-expense spared programme of maintenance and enhancement works. The current odometer reading, at the time of cataloguing, was just 7,695 miles. The tool kit and jack are in superb condition, as is the spare wheel. The history file includes the book pack and well stamped service book, spare key, receipts, a fresh MOT Certificate, the Jaguar Heritage Trust Certificate and the aforementioned signed letter, confirming the car’s history and warranting the mileage.

This Daimler must be one of the finest examples available, worthy of inclusion in any collection and a perfect candidate for local car shows.