One For Classic Car Fans.....

[DRM]

Spotted this lovely old thing in Chipping Norton this morning

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Also witnessed the JD Vance motorcade, crazy!

Vanden Plas Princess, also available as an Austin Westminster, really classy leather interior, walnut dash, and walnut fold down picnic tables in the backs of the front seats, Automatic with a Rolls Royce engine iirc, my grandad had an Austin Westminster for a short while

 

[Profpointy]

Vanden Plas Princess, also available as an Austin Westminster, really classy leather interior, walnut dash, and walnut fold down picnic tables in the backs of the front seats, Automatic with a Rolls Royce engine iirc, my grandad had an Austin Westminster for a short while

The model shown is a 3 litre six which as far as I know had an Austin engine. There was a posher again VDP which indeed had a Rolls Royce engine, this time a 4 litre six. The VDP-R had less pronounced fins and other minor style differences. The story was they wanted to make the car more expensive so as to meet some kind of company car tax threshold (maybe £999?) and hence the RR engine was the extra feature to justify the price

 

[raleighnut]

The model shown is a 3 litre six which as far as I know had an Austin engine. There was a posher again VDP which indeed had a Rolls Royce engine, this time a 4 litre six. The VDP-R had less pronounced fins and other minor style differences. The story was they wanted to make the car more expensive so as to meet some kind of company car tax threshold (maybe £999?) and hence the RR engine was the extra feature to justify the price

Yep my Dad had one, bought from my uncle who then had an even 'thirstier' car a Mercedes with the big V8 engine