vulgalour Posted January 30, 2022 Author Share Posted January 30, 2022 The L trim seats have this great chevron stitch design to them which I wish they'd replicated on the velour versions. Shown here in the interior of OEL825P, a limousine. It's nice that they went to the trouble of trimming the jump seats in the same way as the factory bench. This is the same design they used in various colours, usually to compliment the bodywork, so that blue one would have had this interior in dark blue vinyl. LightBulbFun, Datsuncog, Asimo and 4 others 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phil_lihp Posted February 4, 2022 Share Posted February 4, 2022 @andyberg spotted another one, a fancy 2200, off the road for 22 years. WHT 860T. vulgalour 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vulgalour Posted February 4, 2022 Author Share Posted February 4, 2022 Another 'new' one that. I wonder if the corrugated sheet on the roof rack is there because the sunroof leaks? It's a reasonable solution. lesapandre 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LightBulbFun Posted February 17, 2022 Share Posted February 17, 2022 do you have KKN840P down on the list? (I dont see it, but I dont know if its sitting in the yet to be sorted pile ) https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=4743454699084448&id=131378263625471 been informed of it by @keef to pass it on to you ProgRocker, Shite Ron, keef and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lesapandre Posted February 17, 2022 Share Posted February 17, 2022 On 1/16/2022 at 4:01 PM, vulgalour said: Generally speaking, L is no vinyl, HL is C pillars only, HLS is full roof. Except when it's not. Engine sizes also are generally 1.7 for the L, 1.7 and 2.0 for the HL, and 2.2 for the HLS. Except when it's not. Twin sealed beam headlights for L and HL, trapezoid halogens for HLS. Except when its not. Flat colours for L and HL, metallics for HL and HLS. Except when it's not. You get the idea. BL seemed to be operating on the principle that the customer gets what the customer wants. Except when they don't because BL cocked up the order somewhere along the line and the wrong trim or even colour was delivered. Just remember, it's always a Princess. Except when it's not. Then it's an 18-22. I also figured out what that blue Japanese car is; Datsun Bluebird (610) of about 1975 vintage. I read some of this mix-and-match was due to supply, supplier and strike problems meaning whatever was to hand got fitted. Another was autos often fitted too because of supply issues. People forget too that even in the 70's within my time there were often long waiting lists for cars and people tended in frustration to take whatever car they could get their hands on regardless of detailed spec. vulgalour 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vulgalour Posted February 18, 2022 Author Share Posted February 18, 2022 I've heard so many stories that it's hard to filter apocryphal tales from the truth. It does seem pretty common that the dealerships just provided a car and hoped the customer wouldn't notice it was wrong and that customers sort of expected the car they got to not be right and just be grateful to get a car at all. One of my favourites is when cars got one trim level on one side, and one trim level on the other, which seems made up until you actually encounter one (they're pretty rare now) that hasn't been upgraded/corrected. You only need to look as far as Tesla to see this sort of nonsense is still ongoing, when people really want something badly enough it's amazing what they'll overlook and put up with. It's also fun when you have a weirdly specced car and some rivet counter tries to tell you that "they didn't make them that way", as if cars in the 70s were produced by NASA with a Swiss attention to detail. Asimo, lesapandre, Split_Pin and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard_FM Posted February 18, 2022 Share Posted February 18, 2022 I heard someone had an Range Rover in the 1970s & wondered why it was almost impossible to get the wing mirrors lined up. After taking it back to he dealers it turned out the mirrors were for a LHD one, I presume the dealer changed them free of charge. Talking of LHD, it was common for Allegros & other BL cars to leave the factory with carpets that had the rubber pedal protectors on the left hand side. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
High Jetter Posted February 18, 2022 Share Posted February 18, 2022 Erm, how would adjustable wing mirrors be handed? As for carpets, rubber mats were upsales or gifts, depending. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vulgalour Posted February 19, 2022 Author Share Posted February 19, 2022 The glass on mirrors can be handed, you'll sometimes have pairs that have a more magnified glass on one side than the other and that could be reversed for handed sets, though sometimes the way the mirror head fixes to the arm means you can't just swap the head from one side to the other. Arms can also be handed, with one side being longer or a different angle than the other, again so you can adjust them to favour the driver's side of the car. Before the 70s mirrors were usually universal side-to-side, after the 70s you started to see door mirrors as being commonplace, so the RHD/LHD muddle on wing mirrors sits in a very special little spot in the 70s for the most part. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bunglebus Posted February 19, 2022 Share Posted February 19, 2022 70s high spec Fords had a remote control mirror in the driver's door that's noticeably bugger than the other 90s/00s Polos and Lupos have a smaller mirror on the N/S Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ETCHY Posted February 19, 2022 Share Posted February 19, 2022 7 hours ago, bunglebus said: 70s high spec Fords had a remote control mirror in the driver's door that's noticeably bugger than the other 90s/00s Polos and Lupos have a smaller mirror on the N/S I think Capri's had that one bigger mirror housing to the very end or at least very late on. Always bugged me ! bunglebus 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bunglebus Posted February 19, 2022 Share Posted February 19, 2022 Bloody autocorrect again - a bigger mirror obviously.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
High Jetter Posted February 19, 2022 Share Posted February 19, 2022 11 hours ago, vulgalour said: The glass on mirrors can be handed, you'll sometimes have pairs that have a more magnified glass on one side than the other and that could be reversed for handed sets, though sometimes the way the mirror head fixes to the arm means you can't just swap the head from one side to the other. Arms can also be handed, with one side being longer or a different angle than the other, again so you can adjust them to favour the driver's side of the car. Before the 70s mirrors were usually universal side-to-side, after the 70s you started to see door mirrors as being commonplace, so the RHD/LHD muddle on wing mirrors sits in a very special little spot in the 70s for the most part. I wasn't aware of handed arms, but do remember the options of either flat or convex mirrors, if that's what you meant by magnifying. Longer arms or extensions could be fitted for towing caravans etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vulgalour Posted February 21, 2022 Author Share Posted February 21, 2022 yeah, sometimes you get like a stubby vertical looking arm on the passenger side and a more 'normal' looking arm on the driver's side. It's not super common, but they do exist. Same with flat/convex/magnifying lenses, sometimes you get a flat and a convex, or a convex and even more convex, as a handed pair. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cms206 Posted February 23, 2022 Share Posted February 23, 2022 From that flickr. Wilko220, adw1977, vulgalour and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sandglow Posted March 4, 2022 Share Posted March 4, 2022 Hi there. I came across the 'Wedgister' a while back and was pleased to see that my Princess 2 (YNT 755T) was already in your list. It is still very much alive but spends a lot longer in the garage since our twins came along 5 years ago! To add to your list, the other day I was looking at a publication a friend gave me which is a 'bookazine' (not a book, not a magazine, but something in between..) about British Leyland (see website here). In the foreword, the author Stephen Pullen has put in photos of BL vehicles he's owned over the years including 3 Princesses: OWT 238W, JAV 513W and HCH 937V. Unless I'm mistaken, I don't think they are in your list. I've tried to attach a scan of that page and a better photo of my Princess.. hopefully it will work, I'm new to autoshite, so we'll see! All the best! Paul Split_Pin, LightBulbFun, Datsuncog and 8 others 10 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LightBulbFun Posted May 5, 2022 Share Posted May 5, 2022 twas just doing some DVLA bashing after a tip off about a possible princess and managed to unearth up XVC951X for the list curiously in a sea of Land Rovers and Range Rovers go figure! vulgalour 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vulgalour Posted May 5, 2022 Author Share Posted May 5, 2022 I need to hire an assistant to get this thing kept up to date or something. I'm finding zero time to organise it, sorry about that. It is wonderful to keep seeing wedges, new and known, popping up. LightBulbFun 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard_FM Posted May 5, 2022 Share Posted May 5, 2022 3 hours ago, LightBulbFun said: twas just doing some DVLA bashing after a tip off about a possible princess and managed to unearth up XVC951X for the list curiously in a sea of Land Rovers and Range Rovers go figure! XVC...X was a Coventry Issue of March 1982. I imagine some fleet orders were among the registrations you checked out. Considering how close Solihull is this isn't surprising, I've noticed most Land Rover press cars tend to have Coventry registrations. LightBulbFun 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amishtat Posted May 9, 2022 Share Posted May 9, 2022 No number plates on it but someone raced a Princess hearse at Mildenhall over the weekend. Can't be very many left now. Shite Ron and bunglebus 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard_FM Posted May 9, 2022 Share Posted May 9, 2022 On 5/8/2022 at 12:49 AM, High Jetter said: Heading for the IOW? 6 hours ago, Amishtat said: No number plates on it but someone raced a Princess hearse at Mildenhall over the weekend. Can't be very many left now. One was blown up in an episode of Father Ted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vulgalour Posted May 10, 2022 Author Share Posted May 10, 2022 19 hours ago, Amishtat said: No number plates on it but someone raced a Princess hearse at Mildenhall over the weekend. Can't be very many left now. They're rare and nobody cares. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coops Posted June 2, 2022 Share Posted June 2, 2022 Thought people reading this thread might like to see this pic from last week. Joey spud, Dyslexic Viking, J W Pepper and 11 others 14 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quicksilver Posted June 2, 2022 Share Posted June 2, 2022 Limo VJX 803V is still alive and well on the show scene Shite Ron, ProgRocker, vulgalour and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wilko220 Posted June 3, 2022 Share Posted June 3, 2022 On 09/05/2022 at 22:46, Richard_FM said: One was blown up in an episode of Father Ted. Not quite as twattish behaviour to destroy one in 1995, or whenever that was. Only a complete philistine would do it now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ProgRocker Posted June 5, 2022 Share Posted June 5, 2022 There's a brown Princess @5:25. One for the list? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
666jjp Posted June 10, 2022 Share Posted June 10, 2022 just seen a green princess in an old episode of the return of the saint - poj954r vulgalour 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MorrisItalSLX Posted July 6, 2022 Share Posted July 6, 2022 Another Australian Princess has made itself known, a 2200 no less. I love the colour, Moonraker blue? LightBulbFun, Split_Pin, Dyslexic Viking and 4 others 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
High Jetter Posted July 6, 2022 Share Posted July 6, 2022 Aus spec repeater on the wing? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MorrisItalSLX Posted July 7, 2022 Share Posted July 7, 2022 2 hours ago, High Jetter said: Aus spec repeater on the wing? Princess 2 addition I believe. All Australian Princesses are private imports, never sold here new. They were assembled in New Zealand, so it is likely that this is where they were exported from. Split_Pin 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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