1930 Daimler Other 20/30 Roadster
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1930 Daimler Roadster. This is the only Daimler 20/30 Roadster known to exist in the world. It is an aluminium bodied car coach built by Martin Walter of Folkestone. The car which belonged to my father was fully restored in the early 1970s and hasn’t travelled far since. It has always been kept under cover. The car was last driven ten years ago and requires recommissioning. - fuel system drained, new spark plugs, brakes overhauled etc. this shouldn’t be beyond anyone how is reasonably competent mechanically. I was going to recommission it myself but a recent leg amputation makes that impossible for me.
It has a four speed pre select gearbox. Its engine is a sleeve valve six cylinder.
Very importantly the car is all there with nothing missing.
Daimler cars of this era were very expensive rivalling Rolls Royce in quality. They were the official cars used by the Royal family and marketed to aristocracy and other very wealthy people. Although This is the only known Daimler 20/30 roadster known to exist, between 1926 and 1930 a small number of Daimler Double Six Roadsters were manufactured, one of which recently sold for US $6,000,000. (Nz $9,935,000). Yes almost ten million dollars.
The car has a mileage Of just over 79,000 miles.
The car’s registration is on hold.
watch the you tube video entitled “The Daimler Story”.
This car is unique and hugely desirable. If you’re going to get a vintage car you might as well get a convertible coupe with wind up side windows making the car itself fully enclosable. With the dickie seat the car can seat 4 people. It’s in excellent condition overall with very good paint that just needs a polish, excellent wool hood lining and velvet? Door panels with excellent black leather upholstery. Front carpet is stained and needs replacing however which wouldn’t cost much. Walnut woodwork and solid silver dashboard and gauges are all excellent. There is no apparent rust in either the body or chassis and the body appears extremely straight with no accident damage.
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Interesting car, it will probably need the engine stripped down if has sat without being run for as long as your dads car as sat philby1 (180 • 5:03 pm, Mon, 10 NovIdont know why you would assume that. Do you have some information I don’t? I had a 1973 450slc Mercedes Benz which hadn’t gone since 1987. I cleaned the petrol tank and replaced perished fuel lines and the engine started easily for the first time in 25 years. So what’s the point of your question? ahill1 (55 • Monday, 10 November 2025I just googled the word roadster. According to Google one of the features of a roadster is that such a car doesn’t have side windows. The Daimler has so a more accurate description of it would perhaps be a convertible coupe. Seller comment Monday, 10 November 2025 There’s a hell of a difference between a merc and a Daimler, I purchased a Daimler back in 1984 with an aluminium head and bronze bearings that had sat for eight years and was informed quite correctly to strip and recondition the engine , I’m glad I did. If I hadn’t it could have been catastrophic and cost me a fortune. As they say for warned. philby1 (180 • 6:40 pm, Tue, 11 NovI really don’t care less about your experiences or your opinions. And by the way If you knew anything about Daimlers you would realise that a 1984 Daimler is Daimler in name only. Daimler was bought by Jaguar in the early 1960s and the last Daimler engines were produced by Jaguar in the 1960s. Your 1984 Daimler was a badge engineered Daimler ie a Daimler in name only. Whether you had a v12 or six cylinder “Daimler”, it was actually a Jaguar engine. ahill1 (55 • Tuesday, 11 November 2025And there was a hell of a lot of difference between a Jaguar and a Mercedes of the 1980s era in that Jaguar then did not have a v8 engine configuration. However what I suspect you are attempting to say is that you believe Mercedes engines are superior in quality when compared to Jaguar engines. That’s your opinion. It is not a fact. Seller comment Tuesday, 11 November 2025 If you took the time to read my last reply properly I said I purchased my Daimler in 1984 and and had sat for some eight year and was a1954. philby1 (180 • 8:22 pm, Tue, 11 Nov
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