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Car Forum / UK Car Forums / Classic Cars (UK group) / May 2008Princess (wedge) available?
I'm considering, if it's possible to find one, getting a Austin (or Leyland, I think to be more accurate) Princess for my wife. A 2000HL or 2000HLS Princess 2, which I think means circa 1978-1981. I've seen that there are one or two still about in good shape but they must be pretty rare now. Anybody seen one? I had one (HCA 100T) when I was a student in 1992, and loved it. Mind you, that was a long time ago now. regards Michael > I'm considering, if it's possible to find one, getting a Austin (or > Leyland, I think to be more accurate) Princess for my wife. A 2000HL or [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > must be pretty rare now. Anybody seen one? I had one (HCA 100T) when I > was a student in 1992, and loved it. Mind you, that was a long time ago now. Take those rose tinted glasses off and look at them for what they were. I doubt she'd appreciate something that butt ugly.  SignatureConor I only please one person per day. Today is not your day. Tomorrow isn't looking good either. - Scott Adams >>I'm considering, if it's possible to find one, getting a Austin (or >>Leyland, I think to be more accurate) Princess for my wife. > Take those rose tinted glasses off and look at them for what they were. > I doubt she'd appreciate something that butt ugly. If she thought they were ugly she wouldn't be considering driving one! Why assume I'd buy her a car she'd never seen at all? Michael >>> I'm considering, if it's possible to find one, getting a Austin (or >>> Leyland, I think to be more accurate) Princess for my wife. [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > Michael Nothing to do with me but http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/1983-AUSTIN-AMBASSADOR-2-0HLS-AUTO-RED_W0QQitemZ2002006874 37QQihZ010QQcategoryZ29753QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem Alan... > >>> I'm considering, if it's possible to find one, getting a Austin (or > >>> Leyland, I think to be more accurate) Princess for my wife. [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/1983-AUSTIN-AMBASSADOR-2-0HLS-AUTO-RED_W0QQitemZ2002 > 00687437QQihZ010QQcategoryZ29753QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem Nice...... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XszJ7fFFHr0 SignatureSteveH 'You're not a real petrolhead unless you've owned an Alfa Romeo' www.italiancar.co.uk - Honda VFR800 - Hongdou GY200 - Alfa 75 TSpark Alfa 156 TSpark - B6 Passat 2.0TDI SE - COSOC KOTL BOTAFOT #87 - BOTAFOF #18 - MRO # - UKRMSBC #7 - Apostle #2 - YTC # > > >>> I'm considering, if it's possible to find one, getting a Austin (or > > >>> Leyland, I think to be more accurate) Princess for my wife. [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XszJ7fFFHr0 This one seemed to replay an incident I actually had, when driving a Triumph Toledo. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ufc8bnD8DE Hmm I recognise that bloke, he was at the educational establishment further North on Oxford Road. >>>Nothing to do with me but >>> [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ufc8bnD8DE Haven't watched that, but that reminds me that I spun my second Princess on the Snake Pass. Ended up on the wrong side facing the other way but did little but dent the front nearside wing around the wheel arch, luckily. Michael > Haven't watched that, but that reminds me that I spun my second Princess > on the Snake Pass. Ended up on the wrong side facing the other way but > did little but dent the front nearside wing around the wheel arch, > luckily. I had an 1800 (Land Crab) for many years and it was probably one of the safest handling cars I've ever owned - before stability control etc came in. It simply went from slight to massive understeer depending on how you drove it. Never once lost the back. Signature*Also too, never, ever use repetitive redundancies * Dave Plowman dave@davenoise.co.uk London SW To e-mail, change noise into sound. >>> I'm considering, if it's possible to find one, getting a Austin (or >>> Leyland, I think to be more accurate) Princess for my wife. [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > Michael Or http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/1983-AUSTIN-AMBASSADOR-1-7L-BEIGE-GENUINE-23K-MILES_W0QQit emZ110227364408QQihZ001QQcategoryZ29753QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem Alan... > >>> I'm considering, if it's possible to find one, getting a Austin (or > >>> Leyland, I think to be more accurate) Princess for my wife. [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > > Alan... Sod that, when there's this: <http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/1975-TRIUMPH-TOLEDO-STUNNING-4-900-GENUINE-MILES_ W0QQitemZ270214173800> > Sod that, when there's this: > > <http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/1975-TRIUMPH-TOLEDO-STUNNING-4-900-GENUINE-MILES_ > W0QQitemZ270214173800> Wow! Only 5000 miles? Are they any fun to drive, those things? Michael > > Sod that, when there's this: > > [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > Are they any fun to drive, those things? Hmm, only in a sort of "my god glaciers move faster than this" sort of way. Rear wheel drive with all the fun taken out. I'd like to own that one, but it would be a sin to use it much and I'd have to do something about the swallows that have decided to move into my barn/garage. I had one for several years and loved it at the time. Sadly the engine is fairly fragile. >>> Sod that, when there's this: >>> [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > I had one for several years and loved it at the time. Sadly the engine > is fairly fragile. which would be the perfect excuse to drop a Rover V8 into it. SignaturePete M - OMF#9 Range Rover V8 Turbo Scorpio Ultima 24v "Professional Petrolhead" > I had one for several years and loved it at the time. Sadly the engine > is fairly fragile. Is it the large crank (GK) Herald engine? Ian > > I had one for several years and loved it at the time. Sadly the engine > > is fairly fragile. > > Is it the large crank (GK) Herald engine? I think so but enlarged to 1300cc. Like the Herald engine it had a habit of throwing a con. rod through the side of the engine. > > > I had one for several years and loved it at the time. Sadly the engine > > > is fairly fragile. [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > I think so but enlarged to 1300cc. Like the Herald engine it had a habit > of throwing a con. rod through the side of the engine. I haven't ever heard of that happening, and I've had a Herald 13/60 - which is the 1296cc engine - for 20 years. Herald engines are noted for dropping out thrust washers, to rather painfully expensive effect. Right at the end of Herald production, just for the last year or so, the 1296cc GE engine was replaced with the GK, which I think is the Toledo one. Basically identical, but with larger diameter main bearings, which caused no end of problems. Oddly enough, the Spitfire 1500 is notorious for precisely the same reason. Ian > > > > I had one for several years and loved it at the time. Sadly the engine > > > > is fairly fragile. [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > bearings, which caused no end of problems. Oddly enough, the Spitfire > 1500 is notorious for precisely the same reason. AFAIR the problem is caused by lubrication failures. The big end siezes and the con rod breaks. I've seen it on both Heralds and Toledos although looking at Toledos in scrappies in the 1980s it seemed to be mostly Toledos that suffered from the problem. The first time it happened to me was when friend took me down the M23 in his Herald. Big bang, lots of steam and when we stopped on the hard shoulder I looked at one side of the engine and said "it seems fine here" and he simply stared at the 9in hole in the block on his side. > > Sod that, when there's this: > > [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > Michael No, they're shite. THey also look cut off at the back. Get a Dolomite..virtually the same looking, RWD and the arse end is longer so it all looks in proportion. SignatureConor I only please one person per day. Today is not your day. Tomorrow isn't looking good either. - Scott Adams Conor (Conor <conor_turton@hotmail.com>) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying: > No, they're shite. THey also look cut off at the back. Get a > Dolomite..virtually the same looking, RWD and the arse end is longer so > it all looks in proportion. Odd, isn't it? The short tail was the original FWD 1300 style - the longer tail (and nose) of the Dolly didn't come until the later FWD 1500. > > >>> I'm considering, if it's possible to find one, getting a Austin > > >>> (or Leyland, I think to be more accurate) Princess for my wife. [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > > > > > Or http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/1983-AUSTIN-AMBASSADOR-1-7L-BEIGE-GENUINE-23K-MILES_W0QQit emZ110227364408QQihZ001QQcategoryZ29753QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem > Sod that, when there's this: <http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/1975-TRIUMPH-TOLEDO-STUNNING-4-900-GENUINE-MILES_W0QQitemZ 270214173800> They're hardly in the same class. The Princess is vast inside and a good motorway cruiser. The Toledo is small and, err, slow. Signature*Nothing is foolproof to a sufficiently talented fool* Dave Plowman dave@davenoise.co.uk London SW To e-mail, change noise into sound. > They're hardly in the same class. The Princess is vast inside and a good > motorway cruiser. The Toledo is small and, err, slow. Indeed but the Princess was a shed and that Toledo appears to be mint. > >>I'm considering, if it's possible to find one, getting a Austin (or > >>Leyland, I think to be more accurate) Princess for my wife. [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > If she thought they were ugly she wouldn't be considering driving one! > Why assume I'd buy her a car she'd never seen at all? It's not unknown. SignatureConor I only please one person per day. Today is not your day. Tomorrow isn't looking good either. - Scott Adams >>>>I'm considering, if it's possible to find one, getting a Austin (or >>>>Leyland, I think to be more accurate) Princess for my wife. [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > It's not unknown. Well, probably less harmful than someone buying an unwanted dog as a Christmas present, or that sort of thing. Michael > I'm considering, if it's possible to find one, getting a Austin (or > Leyland, I think to be more accurate) Princess for my wife. A 2000HL or [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > was a student in 1992, and loved it. Mind you, that was a long time ago > now. If she'd prefer a slightly more squashed wedge, bloke at work wants to sell a very nice TR7 that could almost be described as a "barn find": http://s65.photobucket.com/albums/h228/Geobloke/TR7_27012008 >> I'm considering, if it's possible to find one, getting a Austin (or >> Leyland, I think to be more accurate) Princess for my wife. A 2000HL [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > sell a very nice TR7 that could almost be described as a "barn find": > http://s65.photobucket.com/albums/h228/Geobloke/TR7_27012008 Thanks, but it would need to be a 4-seater. That TR7 looks to be in pretty good shape! regards Michael >> If she'd prefer a slightly more squashed wedge, bloke at work wants to >> sell a very nice TR7 that could almost be described as a "barn find": >> http://s65.photobucket.com/albums/h228/Geobloke/TR7_27012008 > > Thanks, but it would need to be a 4-seater. Aye, it wasn't really a serious suggestion. > That TR7 looks to be in pretty good shape! I'm just hoping someone else buys it before it starts appealing to me too much! > I'm considering, if it's possible to find one, getting a Austin (or > Leyland, I think to be more accurate) Princess for my wife. A 2000HL or [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > was a student in 1992, and loved it. Mind you, that was a long time ago > now. If you get one, can I have a go in it sometime? How's the SD1? Remember David had an Ambassador... I recall that being quite good at keeping my weight down. Food didn't stay in long in it. Richard (no classics here, but something big and French on the way soon). |
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