Thursday
Jul072011
Friday Mystery Car
Thursday, July 7, 2011 at 11:57PM
Spotted this in Park Slope a number of months back. Had to rub my eyes in disbelief. I can't tell if the fact that I actually identified this weird car on sight impressed my date, or if the nerd power simply overwhelmed her. Needless to say i didn't get any action that night.
tagged Brooklyn, Mystery car, street sighting in Street Sightings
Reader Comments (10)
Looks like some spawn from the Cold War era BMC parts bin...Riley?
Warm
The grille is throwing me off.
Vanden Plas Princess 1300
I really hope you tried to explain why the car was interesting, because that is a nigh-impossible task and usually ends in hilarity
Yes, it is an Austin Princess Vanden Plas 1300. I just told her this was an obscure British car and I had no idea how the hell it was in Park Slope. I don't think that ID-ing the car was a problem. It was the whole stopping to photograph it from 3 angles that might have been too much. HAHA.
Well, I hope you've learned your lesson..
I knew it was an Austin, but hope I would have had the sense not to admit it.
i was gonna say MG 1100....but i was obviously in denial of the Princess.
Amazing .. I thought GM was the Champion of Badge Engineering !
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austin_1300
A couple of my old roomates found a Matchbox version of the MG 1100 version of this inside of an old thrift-store electric organ. Still have it. It has a little molded plastic dog in the cargo area.