DAC 115Y - The Restro

AS SLOC MEMBERS who follow the SLOC FB page will know I recently acquired DAC 115Y and over the next few editions of oppoSiteLOC I am going to keep everyone updated on the restoration of one of the DAC cars.

So a bit of background first, I purchased 115 from Rick Parker in October 2022. Rick himself bought the car at a Matthewsons’ auction back in 2020 when it looked very sad and unloved. Rick had the car stripped and acid dipped to see the full scale of the rot and had the car sent to Marco at Fully Loaded Cars for his magic to be worked however Rick had a change in his plans and decided to sell which is where I stepped in after another club member opted out of the purchase.

Whilst I had agreed to buy the package Rick was selling I realised I was going to have to do a stock take of what parts I already had and what was going to be needed to get to a position where I had most, if not all, of the parts needed to build a complete car. Rick and I had many emails, WhatsApp messages and calls back and forth and we finally came up with an extra package of parts which along with my own spares should be enough to rebuild 115. Rick very kindly delivered the shell and all the other bits and pieces to me in Edinburgh after I had cleared a space in my garage and 115 has been safely tucked up beside its older brothers VFS572V and my Chrysler Sunbeam 1.3 LS.

I have been speaking to various restorers about having the shell fully restored. At this stage I am unsure who I will be using to do the bodywork but I intend to do all the mechanical work myself though I will probably have Phil Davison do a fuel injected engine for me. I don’t intend on doing a true to original rebuild and think I’ll have a little fun doing a different blue paint rather than Moonstone and a stripe in neither black or silver!

I’ll keep you posted on developments.

CAM