Vanden Plas Princess 1300 MKII

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A truly exceptional and low mileage example of the classic ADO16 Vanden Plas Princess 1600 MkII finished in Damask Red that’s likely to be among the best in the country.

A local Hereford car, this three-owner example was one-family-owned from new in August 1971 until 2013 when our vendor, a local marque enthusiast, took stewardship with the intent of thoroughly restoring it. That he has done and then some, to a quite astounding degree, spending a lot of time and money sourcing rare ‘new old stock’ parts including front wings, front panel, front and rear subframes, all four hydraulic displacers, Fog Ranger lights, headlights, rear lights, bumpers/over-riders, boot fairing, radiator etc.

Other new parts include a new wiring loom, battery, all five tyres, exhaust system, interior and roof lining, suspension components blasted and powder coated – you get the picture. The results speak for themselves and you could probably eat your dinner off the underside, it’s that clean!

In rare automatic spec, it has all the usual Vanden Plas luxuries including lashings of leather and walnut and folding picnic tables for the rear passengers. We are told that it starts, stops and drives as one might expect given the work that’s gone into it, with an MOT to October 2019 with no advisories recorded.

The comprehensive history file contains the original purchase invoice, correspondence from the supplying dealer to the owner, V5C, old style log book, original handbooks and manuals, service book with six period stamps, original sales brochure and an array of maintenance and parts invoices dating back to the early ‘70s. A stack of 17 old MOTs confirms the car’s low mileage of only 33,648.

A credit to its owners, this wonderfully correct, rigorously restored and impressively historied Princess must be one of the finest surviving and would sit well in any collection.