That vandalised Ambassador...

[rovamota]

Well it actually has a new MoT! I will tax it from the beginning of March and set about smartening it up a bit. 

 

[saucedoctor]

My glass eye is floating. Jolly well done!

[Isaac Hunt]

Top job chaps, a great thread.  I grew up with BMC/BL products and my Dad had two Princess'.  A 1.8HL which he fitted an Leyland ST Kit,  twin 1/34 SU's and a LCB manifold to get a bit more 'get up and go'.  Then a 1.7HL.  

 

Love em or hate em, they are part of our motoring heritage and great that you are saving them.

[Felly Magic]

This deserves a double thumbs up. Well done to 'Team Prinbassador'

[Asimo]

Like for the whole thread. Damn good show!

[Guest Breadvan72]

I STILL wish that I knew how to spell SPLUNFF.

[Skizzer]

Status: Hero.

[Pillock]

This deserves a double thumbs up. Well done to 'Team Prinbassador'

I'm glad you suggested that, I thought the combination of Ambassador and Princess would be an Abscess.

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

Heroes of CLASS. 

[trigger]

Congratulations guys!

[Guest Breadvan72]

Presumably the magical hydrophantastic whoopee cushion suspension is pumped up.

[Guest Breadvan72]

So long as they used correct 1980s BL nitrogen, all will be well.  Modern nitrogen is shite.

[Guest Hooli]

I have no idea why you saved this, but you've done a bloody good job at it. Well done.

[Angrydicky]

I love this so much! I'd like to buy it, even though I'm supposed to be saving up for a prewar car. Hnnng.

[cms206]

I love this so much! I'd like to buy it, even though I'm supposed to be saving up for a prewar car. Hnnng.

As you didn't specify which war, the Gulf war started in 1990 making the Ambassador prewar. HTH.

 

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[Guest Breadvan72]

Autoshite, the day that this Ambassador goes on sale:

 

[MarvinsMom]

now it would be "a good thing" if this beige temptress was to stay within the AS family when it gets sold.

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

Top job chaps, a great thread.  I grew up with BMC/BL products and my Dad had two Princess'.  A 1.8HL which he fitted an Leyland ST Kit,  twin 1/34 SU's and a LCB manifold to get a bit more 'get up and go'.  

 

 

 

Legend!

[Guest Breadvan72]

My dad had a brown Princess as his BL company car (he was teaching at the BL staff college at the time, and then managing a Unipart exhaust factory in Oxford).  He really liked the Princess, and it was reliable.  I can recall him driving us back from a curry house one night, after several pints of Skol, on the wrong side of the suburban road at 80 mph.  Because 1980.   He was pissed off with me when I honked out of the window on another occasion while he was driving me back to university (I had been reuniting with old sixth form friends in the pub the night before). 

 

Later he briefly had a black Ambassador, which gave him trouble, but that was soon replaced by a very early talking dashboard Maestro (they were given to managers to test).  He liked that and got it sideways on roundabouts a bit.  

[Magnificent Rustbucket]

Fixing this is a real achievement.

[rovamota]

Thanks for the great comments, guys. It's a great feeling knowing we've saved it and I hope we get a few miles out of it before we pass it on. We're going to tax it from March 1st.

 

Here's a pic I took today, ebay 'shadow of photographer' style. There's still a lot of tarting up to do.

 

[dollywobbler]

Thanks for the great comments, guys. It's a great feeling knowing we've saved it and I hope we get a few miles out of it before we pass it on. We're going to tax it from March 1st.

 

Here's a pic I took today, ebay 'shadow of photographer' style. There's still a lot of tarting up to do.

 

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So good that Richard III took an interest.

[Guest Breadvan72]

So good that Richard III took an interest.

 

Cheated of feature by dissembling nature

Deform'd, unfinish'd, sent before my time

Into this breathing world scarce half made up

And that so lamely and unfashionable

That dogs bark at me as I halt by them

 

Oops, sorry, that's a Montego. 

[Guest Breadvan72]

35 years today since the Ambassador was first hurled at an unsuspecting public -

 

 

 

[rovamota]

And as it was its birthday we took the Ambo to the pub for lunch.

 

 

It drives really well, though the foot long throw needed on the gear lever between changes is hilarious.

 

And I got the tyres muddy. I hate muddy tyres.

 

[rovamota]

You'll be able to see the Ambassador at the Austin Morris day, this Sunday at Brooklands.

 

https://www.brooklandsmuseum.com/whats-on/austin-morris-day

[Guest Breadvan72]

Autoshite, the day that this Ambassador goes on sale:

 

 

 

This turned out not to be true.

 

How the FOOOOOOK is this car still not bought by someone on here?   I want to buy this, but really can't, because I have taken on a hopefully non major Italian project.

 

http://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C857304

[adw1977]

It's just TOO nice for Autoshite now!

[DodgeRover]

Needs a white backdrop and an extra 2k on the price and it would fly out

[Skizzer]

If the bucket-list Gamma hadn't come along I suspect I might have weakened. It's a very lovely thing and Mrs Skizzer didn't exercise her right of veto.

 

That's not much help, is it? Soz.