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◊ 2004-11-23 12:40 |
une Austin Van den Plas. Un exemple ici : http://www.antique-auto-agency.co.uk/resources/bigmc3.jpg ![]() |
◊ 2006-01-30 17:02 |
Austin A135 Princess. The model was eventually replaced by the new Princess IV in 1956 which sold as a Vanden Plas from 1957. I once found a beautyful hearse version in Northern Ireland, but a banger racer beat me to buy it by literally minutes. I could have killed him for the license plate alone! You can see photos of that car on my website: http://www.heavenlyhearses.com/Hearse_Pages/princess64.html |
◊ 2006-04-02 21:02 |
4 stars |
◊ 2007-02-13 00:45 |
This is a hearse ![]() ![]() ![]() |
◊ 2007-02-18 00:24 |
It's a Vanden Plas Princess, not an Austin A135 (no "A" hood-ornament). |
◊ 2008-01-07 20:20 |
Not easy to judge, but I tend to unmask it as being made by Alpe & Saunders.![]() |
◊ 2009-04-25 13:40 |
Voici un autre lien : http://www.theunmutual.co.uk/princess.htm |
◊ 2011-02-07 10:02 |
Ah now I know who you are..think I met you once at a show but you were never actually a member of the club ![]() |
◊ 2016-09-06 13:23 |
![]() ![]() Replaced by registration number 289ALW in the final episode. |
◊ 2019-11-26 16:06 |
I have the pleasure to say I drove this car once about 1978/9. A motor trade pal of mine bought it. He w as goingt o loan it to me for a night, but when my mum found out, she threatened to throw me out as she didn't wan't a funeral car outside our Moxley council house. So it never happened. Sad eh. |
◊ 2019-11-26 16:11 |
TLH 858 was London Nov 56 to Nov 57 "allocated in blocks". So plain Princess - after Austin, before VdP. |
◊ 2019-11-26 16:26 |
Neighbours and relatives get used to it after a while. ![]() |
◊ 2019-11-26 16:34 |
Unfortunately, eccentric only applies if you're posh, the term nutter was coined for the rest of us plebs. |
◊ 2019-11-26 16:38 |
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◊ 2019-11-26 17:25 |
I go to the chip shop in my Bentley. (Well not recently but I shall again after the great rebuild.) Is that eccentric or just odd? Also, I had a friend who used to cartop a Mirror Dinghy on an Armstrong Siddeley Sapphire, at least I tow my boat. Hearses are good for sailboards and surfing, just ask the beach boys. -- Last edit: 2019-11-26 17:27:54 |
◊ 2019-11-27 12:34 |
Eccentric = posh Crank = common Works for most types of definitions - engineering or otherwise. |
◊ 2021-10-17 15:56 |
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◊ 2023-02-22 23:55 |
Princess (as make) 4 Litre hearse chassis were [DH3], following from the previous Austin (as make) [DH2]. |