For Sale: Sandglow Wedge Opportunity

[Sam Glover]

 

Apologies for all the car-pushing, of late. My purge is continuing.

 

I've recently acquired a Sandglow Allegro and Wedge from the inimitable Mr Richard Gunn.

 

The Allegro is most definitely a keeper. The Wedge I had earmarked for a German friend... but annoyingly, he's just said 'nein'.

 

It needs a loving home – and I'm open to low offers. 

 

It's a 1978 2200HLS in exotic Sandglow with an erotic brown velour interior.

 

Bad: The alternator's not generating any current, the electric fan doesn't cut in, the gearchange is shite and one of the brake circuits has ejected its fluid from somewhere. The body and underside have plenty of rust patches, dents and less-than-seamless past repairs… nothing MoT-threatening, though.

 

Good: It's fundamentally good mechanically, the interior's decent and it's covered 66k miles. It's really quite nice to drive. Richard spent £1k recommissioning it in mid-2011.

 

Restoring it would be quite a job, but it wouldn't take much time or money to get it MoT'd and working nicely.

 

Wedge No.1 is still up for grabs FOC.

 

Sam

 

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Phwooaarr, 2200 manual!!!!

[dollywobbler]

Aye. I've known this car for many years and having been praying for it to get the attention it needs. Six pot manual so DEAD sporty*.

 

The brown velour interior is just wonderful.

[cort16]

That pretty awesome. I guess this is about as sporty as it got for a princess? Is vulgalour not hoovering up every Princess know to man these days?

[Steviemillar]

I can't see the pics but it sounds Wedgelicious....

[vulgalour]

@cort16: I don't like Sandglow, so this one's safe from me.

[crapcarcollector]

@cort16: I don't like Sandglow, so this one's safe from me.

 

Quote of the year. I'm chucking like a moron sat here on my own.

[theorganist]

What sort of price are you looking for as my mechanic is looking at getting another Princess after spending time with mine?

 

Peter

[wuvvum]

This is rather nice.  The one Princess I've owned was a 2200 manual.  Went OK and sounded nice, but was anything but sporty - I found myself constantly running out of revs whenever I tried to make it pick up its skirts.  Still one of the comfiest cars I've ever owned mind.

[Sam Glover]

 

Hi Peter,

 

PM'd.

 

Sam

[Skizzer]

That interior is to die for.

 

Rest of the car would probably prove fatal too, if Mrs Skizzer found out.

[M'coli]

This is rather nice.  The one Princess I've owned was a 2200 manual.  Went OK and sounded nice, but was anything but sporty - I found myself constantly running out of revs whenever I tried to make it pick up its skirts. 

 

Half of this lot should sort that out, especially if he has another Maestro manifold somewhere...

[Sam Glover]

 

Price reduced from £low offers to £very low offers.

 

It's really quite fast. And it benefits from a highly exotic straight-six howl, thanks to a sporty leak in the exhaust (just a badly-seated front joint section, I think). There's sport to be had revving it in crowded town centres, then basking in the looks of disappointment as onlookers pinpoint to source of the noise. 'Oooohhh, look at the sports car Timmy... Oh no! Look away Timmy. That's not a sports car – it's a bad man.'

 

Sam

[Lankytim]

That looks bastard flipping well ace, i'm on a shite siesta however...

 

How much its it?

[Sam Glover]

 

It's hard to put a price on misery. But how about £300?

[barefoot]

@cort16: I don't like Sandglow, so this one's safe from me.

 

 

 

 

  the gearchange is shite 

 

Aren't these two a bit obvious?

 

Surely no-one really likes sand glow and the gear change is actually supposed to be shit.