page_title: Daimler DK400
section_title: Afghanistan all-weather tourer
hierarchical_section_title: Daimler DK400 / Royalty / Afghanistan all-weather tourer
caption_attribution_description: English: crop of image of Motorcade for President Eisenhower's visit to Kabul, Afghanistan. United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower visited Afghanistan in 1959.
context_page_description: The Daimler DK400, originally Daimler Regina DF400, was a large luxury car made by The Daimler Company Limited between 1954 and 1959 replacing their Straight-Eight cars. Distinguished, after the Regina, by its hooded headlights it was Daimler's last car to use their fluid flywheel transmission.
context_section_description: A 4-door all-weather tourer by Hooper, body 10236 on chassis 92724, was specially designed and constructed for Mohammed Zahir Shah, King of Afghanistan.  
  By the mid 1990s with the country in political turmoil, the same vehicle, part of the national museum collection, was used as target practice by soldiers and was in a dilapidated state with other vehicles before being taken away and scrapped.
caption: Greeting
  The King's car with President Eisenhower
  followed by the King's Straight-Eight
  Kabul Afghanistan 9 December 1959
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