Daimler DS 420 limousine
Yesterday I met up with former flickr member J.R. McGillawee to visit the Canadian Automotive Museum in Oshawa, Ontario.
The Daimler (Jaguar) DS 420 limousine with Vanden Plas bodywork. It was produced between 1968 and 1992. No other limousine model has been delivered to more reigning monarchs than the DS420, and the car is still used by the royal houses of the United Kingdom, Sweden, Denmark, and Luxembourg.
When I was a kid, my dad had a real estate developer friend who owned such a model. Once we ran into him at a restaurant and he offered to have us chauffeured home. We were in this massive limousine for merely 10 minutes, but I remembered standing inside and waving to everyone on the street like I was a little prince!
This particular car at the Canadian Automotive Museum was originally owned by the Government of Bailiwick of Jersey in the Channel Islands. It was the government state car from 1969 to 1988. A number of British and Norwegian royals have been chauffeured in this very limousine during their official state visits to Jersey.
Daimler DS 420 limousine
Yesterday I met up with former flickr member J.R. McGillawee to visit the Canadian Automotive Museum in Oshawa, Ontario.
The Daimler (Jaguar) DS 420 limousine with Vanden Plas bodywork. It was produced between 1968 and 1992. No other limousine model has been delivered to more reigning monarchs than the DS420, and the car is still used by the royal houses of the United Kingdom, Sweden, Denmark, and Luxembourg.
When I was a kid, my dad had a real estate developer friend who owned such a model. Once we ran into him at a restaurant and he offered to have us chauffeured home. We were in this massive limousine for merely 10 minutes, but I remembered standing inside and waving to everyone on the street like I was a little prince!
This particular car at the Canadian Automotive Museum was originally owned by the Government of Bailiwick of Jersey in the Channel Islands. It was the government state car from 1969 to 1988. A number of British and Norwegian royals have been chauffeured in this very limousine during their official state visits to Jersey.