Description Current owner 19 years; always in regular use; interesting history; fabulous Edward Turner 4.5 V8 engine; one of only 1,180 made and few surviving A proper Q-car, the Daimler Majestic Major was launched at the 1959 London Motor Show and was a much more powerful supplement to the Majestic which had gone on sale the previous year with a 3.8-litre straight-six engine.

Despite its staid looks, the Majestic Major was an advanced car for its time with coil-sprung independent front suspension, a well-located ‘live’ rear axle, servo-assisted Dunlop disc brakes all round and power steering.

Its trump card was under the bonnet which housed Edward Turner’s fabulous 4.5-litre hemi-head V8, conservatively rated at 220bhp with some 300lb/ft of torque.

Mated to Borg-Warner three-speed automatic transmission, this transformed the Majestic into a high-performance executive rocket, sprinting to 60mph in just 9.5 seconds, cruising comfortably at 100mph with another 25mph on hand if require...