It cracks me up when you Canadians call the winter weather "chilly" when in reality it is "insanely freezing!". Canadians are very optimistic!

The sound of the door closing? Priceless!

I love the details you share on these old cars. I really love the workmanship and style of this Daimler - and I smile every time I see those leather suitcases in the truck. You're always classy and stylish. 💕

The car is In beautiful condition inside and out . I would have loved that car for weddings , perfect . Thanks for this journey

This is my favorite car you've owned. I love it white, so classy, it looks so good in the snow in front of your house

Looking good! Alexander, I can't think of any of your loyal fan family that needs you to prove the cold start or anything else. If there is anything we've learned from watching you it is your honesty and loyalty. Just sayin'.

My brother had a 1953 Daimler (I think it might have been a Conquest) with this sort of gear changer. He needed the spring clutch because his left leg (clutch leg) was in plaster hip to toe for most of a year. He didn't have the flexibility or control to manage a proper clutch, but he could just tap his cast against the spring clutch to actuate the change in gear. Awesome car!

👍👌👏 This gorgeous Daimler limousine would still be an excellent and exclusive wedding car. No problem entering it even with a big wedding dress.

Nice car and good job getting it up and running. My guess would be that the next time it's featured in a Curiosity Incorporated video, it'll be shown being loaded onto an auto transport vehicle of some kind so it can make its way to a new owner and the next chapter in its extraordinary life.

It's ridiculously satisfying to sit here and watch you do all the work to restore this old beauty. Thanks for taking us along for the ride (pun alert!)

With that beautiful chrome a high polish raven black color would really set that baby of. It is gorgeous ❤😊

Beautiful, remembering what it looked like when you got it...wow Alex!!!💯💥

Beautiful piece of the history, hope it will find a good new home with a good purpose. It's a pleasure just to look at her.

Nice job with this grand automobile. Her Canadian Winter camouflage is working well. Happy holidays.

Hoping you are all okay . I can't imagine how difficult it must be to deal with such snow storms . I trust you have all stayed home, and haven't lost power. Good luck, love watching you,r videos,.Thanks, from Brisbane Australia :)

Good to see the old girl up and going. It would be nice to see her back in her original black and claret paint scheme. HAPPY NEW YEAR to you and yours.

Thanks for the limo update and now, Alex, get inside your beautiful, warm house.

Fabulously well built cars, nice save.

The weather outside is frightful, but the Daimler is so delightful. You need to keep it for your baby girl's wedding!

@favouritemoon4133

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I'm getting the impression that it's for sale.

@lparky4409

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She might not want to get married!

@jeanieschmidt3781

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Because the boys won't get married?

@playwithmeinsecondlife6129

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@@jeanieschmidt3781 I would want a fast modern car if I was getting married. You think the boys would want a romantic antique car to make their getaway?😭🥰

@jeanieschmidt3781

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@@playwithmeinsecondlife6129 I think it's entirely up to the individual. Sex of the individual does not bear on the matter.

Neat'O video Brother Alexander. Thanks for sharing Your passion and adventures 😀 👍 ♥️ 🇨🇦🇬🇧♥️💯💯

Thanks, v interesting. Would have liked to have seen the engine, but it's still good to see such a rare car being cared for

I bet someone somewhere will make you a good offer for that! Maybe Jay Leno. He has a three story garage with an elevator for the cars.

@deborahcaldwell9775

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ha ha How frivolous of Jay

Super cold is super cold doesn't matter the C or F, ha ha. I am glad you and your family are safe during the dangerous cold.

It would be cool if you took your son Stephen and his date to the prom in the Daimler.

You accomplished what the certified mechanic refused to accomplish.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year Alexander and family. May your year be filled with many blessings and wonder.

Very Nice, I had the 1948 DE36 RAZORBACK , Hooper coach works.

Nice update. Just for a little bit of info: Daimler,later Mercedes-Benz, is not pronaunced for the "Dame" she is, but for every " Dime" spent on her. 😉

@popincourt8058

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Not correct. Daimler-Benz is not Daimler, a company that was based in Coventry, and is usually pronounced Dame-ler in Britain.

@GuyWithTheDogs

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He who owns the car has the right to call it whatever he wants. 🙂

@01jvb

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Alex is pronouncing it correctly.

Alex! The Daimler does NOT have a trunk;..it has a BOOT! Ego no Hood but a BONNET up front!

That is the first time I have heard the term "trafficator," but it makes perfect sense. The car is the same age as my husband. Beautiful car! Your knowledge about cars is amazing.

@TheM0JEC

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Trafficators are the physical pop out direction indicators fitted to cars of this era, just what people called them at the time. Some were purely electrical, some had a mechanical linkage but some were popped out by vacuum from the engine. I believe most were illuminated but some were just a coloured reflective ‘flag’ it’s an interesting feature from this period of time

What a beautiful car. Love it

That beautiful ghost sitting there ( Limo) with the side profile of snow covered trees and ground covered was breath taking. It would make a wonderful picture for the garage wall.

Absolute beauty of a vehicle.

Really neat car. Tyres need more air though. It would be interesting to search for the old pictures from UK royalty and see if the license plate shows up somewhere if it has been in their use. You have all the cold air there and we have all the snow storms here, it has been snowing like 5 days in a row, not fun anymore the amount of snow. Happy New Year!

Interesting car!

Thanks for the video thanks for the update all your cars are awesome catch you on the next one happy new year

Good to see that you're making progress with it🙌🙌💯

Excellent automobile! Wish the weather was nice for a drive! I would love to know what a fair offer would be for your car. Do you think it could be licensed for the road in USA? Don’t be surprised if Jay Leno knocks on your door with a roll of “Benjamin’s”! Thanks for the tour Alex 👍

WOW that is running pretty smooth. runs quieter that my 2008 jeep.

Amazing you've come along way

Enjoyed. Beautiful car.

WhooHoo! It’s looking fabulous!

Lovely car, good job on it Alexander.

That car was picture perfect in the snow! Beautiful! Great job you're doing on it and I really can't wait to see how it ends up! You do really remarkable work! Oh and -30...Freezing! 🥶🥶🥶

I love this car thank you for repairing the car and get it back running again.

A Daimler what a classic car. it looks beautiful. would be ideal for weddings. Hope you got through the weather's bomb safely. happy new year to you all love from UK xx

Hi Alex, beautiful car was thinking does the T on the gears stand for top gear and also the car would look good in black. It's the 30th of December here. Christmas is done and dusted. we are waiting for the new year to come. I hope you and your family have a wonderful new year and keep your videos coming. I really enjoy watching yours and Melissa's videos. I do have a life.🤣🤣 Just enjoy watching ❤from Australia

Cool car. I would like to see the burgundy and black colors on it. It would really stand out.

Sweet ride

That is a solid car. It's growing on me. I do think the burgundy and black would make it more royal looking.

..hi Alex.....she's a beauty...I think putting her back to her original 2 tone, would be as the Brits say....'smashing'....

@01jvb

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We don't say 'smashing'.....!

@Zenny_6969

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@@01jvb ..Monty Python says it so it must be true..:)

Awesome vehicle.

Beautiful limo

Don't forget the work you did on doors!

Nice work ❤

The registration JB8500 is a local Reading in Berkshire number so could well be a Royal car. Contact the Jaguar Daimler heritage centre at Gaydon - home of the British Motor Museum. You can order a build certificate so this could help in tracing the original owner. 😉 However Daimler & Jaguar would loan cars to the Royal Family so may show them as them as the registered keeper.

Hi Alex. You are correct that the JB registration originated from Berkshire, the county which includes Windsor. But that in itself is no proof that the car was used by the royal family. If you contact the Daimler & Lanchester Owners Club I'm sure they will be enthusiastic to help you research the history of the car. Their website suggests that it is the sole example of its type in Canada.

@saxon-mt5by

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JB 8500 was issued in the summer of 1936, so your car was probably originally registered with another number, and the JB number transferred at a later date.

well done alexx. i still admire the big garage. its way bigger than my whole appartement.

@JeanStAubin-nl9uo

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It's way bigger than my house AND my garage together.🤣

I would love to see the limo Royal Claret & black, even if it wasn't originally a state car. :o)

The car is looking good and nice to see it running and driving. There is a place in Cambridge Ont. that does chrome work called Cambridge Custom Chrome and they do excellent work. I have seen a lot of the items that they have redone and they look awesome. I use to deliver there so got to see a lot of different items and talk to the owner about some pieces. Giving you this info just in case you know someone that needs chrome parts restored. They are very busy so might take a while to get the work done but worth the wait.

I think that is just a great car! Love it ❤️

I would be painting it back to the Royal Claret and being that it needs the body imperfections repaired including the drivers door and it would substantially improve the value. Personally, i would love that it went to a Museum in a controlled atmosphere environment as it is a car with its history well worthy of it.

Wow looks amazing

Beautiful car❤

Congrats almost 510K subs. Who would have thought ... I was in the first 500!

Beautiful car

Daimler would look great in two tone livery. Black/silver, black/burgundy, etc.

Hi Alex and Melissa 🙋🏽. I hope you had a wonderful Christmas 🎄❤️.in Canada y'all pronounce your car DAIM-LER, IN THE USA WE PRONOUNCE THE NAME OF YOUR CAR DIME -LER CHRYSLER. THAT'S SO AWESOME. HAVE A GREAT DAY ALEX‼️😃👍🏽.

@tinakercher8768

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Interesting- where are you from?

Impressive car!

Minus 22 degrees for your southern neighbors.

Amazing car! ❤️ This feels like a sales add. I hope that doesn't mean that it's going.

I was a Limo driver part time for 28 years and even the modern limos with the solid partition up you can hear the people in the back. (but do not tell them).🤫

I can only imagine how much better that car looked when it was black. But it still looks mighty nice now.

Your car seems in very good condition, a good base to finish off. Daimler were very conservative indeed, and probably there were heated debates abouot such modernities as trafficators. Loking at this car, it's easy to see how Daimler did not last much longer as an independent manufacturer, and ended up as simply a fancier Jaguar.

Sweet,nice job!

It is a great looking car, you could hang onto it for the boys' grads or weddings or for Abbigails' wedding ! If it was a royal car in 1948 it would have been King George's car not the queen's, when new anyway. 👍🇨🇦✌️

We had a few very cold days in Switzerland, but now it is warmer than normal, They think we might have the warmest change of year ever. Everytime we get warm air coming in around Christmas. But it is about +10 Celsius now. Well I would hate to have minus 30.

What a nifty car!

Put her back to her natural color she look wonderful back to her original colors❤❤

As Mick would say , “PAINT IT BLACK “ 😊

Thanks Alex!

Don't know if Canadian Schools have Proms .......this would be a real kickass car to arrive in with you as the Chauffer.

beautiful

Awesome again 🎸🎸🎸🎸

You said Walk About. The only occasion I remember hearing that expression was in the Movie Crokodile Dundee. May be it is a Commonwealth expression. I use the term Walk Around. A funny car: It cannot get more British than that.

I didn't know Daimler was based in Coventry originally, just like Jaguar. I was born 20 min. from Coventry and my dad was born in Coventry and LOVES Jags!!

A great car 👍👍

It’s such a beautiful piece of British history and now it’s owned by a successful antique dealer in Alberta, Canada. I find that fascinating!! It’s in such beautiful shape and it could go on as an event limousine, but it still has life in it for some time yet. May I ask what is the gorgeous blue car that’s in the middle? I want to compare it with a car that was going to be given to me in 1980, but the wife wanted to trade it in for another vehicle, so I didn’t get it. In 2016 the husband(My 2nd cousin.) drove me to a car shop and he said he had a surprise for me and there was the same car that they sold. I took so many pictures of it. It’s too bad we can’t put pictures with our comments (They would get approved by you first before publishing them on here with the persons comment.) because I’d love to show it to you. I believe it was a Jaguar. Anyhow, loved seeing your new/vintage car. Take care.

Seems like a sales video for the car. R u selling it? It looks good but I think would look amazing in black.

@barbaragroth93

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I was thinking the same thing would look great in black

The transmission may have been manufactured by Cord. It was also used in some Tuckers. You might want to replace the single reservoir brake master cylinder with a modern one with two reservoirs so you will still have working brakes in case you had a fluid loss failure in the front or back brakes.

@danielulz1640

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Cord, Tucker and others used Wilson (made) preselecter gearboxes.

Hi Alexander, what a wonderful car, you looked very regal in it , it should get a lovely new home if you sell it? Good work .👍

the manual is so comprehensive because the chauffeur would also usually service and maintain the car

Don't forget the lead additives for your old cars.

Thank you 👍

Hi Alex! Great job on the Daimler. What does the T on the gear shifter stand for?

@dewbottle

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T is for top I read elsewhere but what it does is a mystery to me lol

@sandyd6321

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T is for 'Top'....most gearboxes then were 3 speed, these had 4...but called it 'Top' instead of fourth.

Nice glad to see you got it running. Wasnt the magazine I sent you about this car?

Hi Alex and family, The Diamler is coming a long just fine! Obviously, your choice I would leave it white! Perhaps a wedding car for the boys or even Abigail as it is stunning! I hope our guys had a Merry Christmas and will have a blessed New Year! Take care from your long time subscriber from California. P.S. minus 40 Celsius = minus 40 Fahrenheit.

I always enjoy your car videos. If I was a guy I'd like them even more. I'd love to see this car out on a highway. Are you planning on doing that some time?

Wow. That is BEAUTIFUL. Does it really need a re-paint,? A careful "touch-up" would surely do.

You got to mount the tire on the trunk and paint it black again and never get rid of it or burgundy and black would have been black at the bottom burgundy in the middle black at the top and you possibly have a queen's car

@danielulz1640

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Spare was never on the trunk lid, always in the special compartment under the trunk.