1951 Daimler DB18 Special Sports Subject to a Comprehensive Restoration and Award Winner Since

Lot details

Registration No: 443 YUY
Chassis No: 59035
MOT: Exempt One of only approximately 500 manufactured Subject to a 'ground up' restoration and just c.83,500 recorded miles Coachwork by Barker & Co. Offered with history file One of the finest examples we have ever encountered

Development of the pre-war Daimler Fifteen culminated with the DB18 model announced for 1939. Independent suspension appeared for the first time on a Daimler and the DB18 featured an enlarged, 2,522cc version of the overhead-valve six first introduced in 1933. Daimler's customary fluid flywheel, pre-selector gearbox and worm drive rear axle comprised the transmission. A new drophead coupé appeared at the first post-war London Motor Show in 1948: the DB18 Special Sports. Stylish in a most un-Daimler-like manner, the Special Sports featured coachwork by Barker, the latter, like Daimler and fellow coachbuilders Hooper, being one of the BSA Group's many companies. The radiator grille was now curved, the alloy-paneled coachwork more streamlined, and the Special Sports benefited from hydro-mechanical braking and a power output raised to 85bhp courtesy of twin carburettors. In short: a model combining all the usual Daimler refinements with increased performance. When DB18 production ceased, only 500-or-so of these elegant and refined Special Sports roadsters had been completed.

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Paul Cheetham
paul.cheetham@handh.co.uk
07538 667452