Registration No: UJB 664G
Chassis No: VAS2/21878M
MOT: Exempt

• Just 78,000 recorded and credible miles on the odometer
• Significantly improved while in current ownership
• Benefitting from a full engine overhaul in 2021 with minimal mileage since
• Handbook, workshop manuals and a box of spares included in the sale

Inspired by a bespoke Morris 1100 that Fred Connolly had commissioned from coachbuilder-turned-manufacturer Vanden Plas, BMC tasked its Kingsbury-based subsidiary with replicating Mr. Connolly’s car to gauge public reaction at the October 1963 Earls Court Motor Show. Sporting a revised radiator grille, two-tone Green paint, and sumptuous Champagne Beige leather and walnut veneer interior, the resultant machine attracted a deluge of enquiries. Entering production in April 1964, the Vanden Plas Princess 1100 boasted a twin-carburettor 1100cc engine, four-speed manual gearbox, front disc brakes, and Hydrolastic interconnected suspension. Priced at £896 (£195 more than the MG 1100 with which it shared a powerplant), the newcomer also featured a West of England cloth headlining, Wilton carpets, reading lights, rear picnic tables and individual folding front seat armrests. In an age of coachbuilt Minis by Wood & Pickett and Radford etc, the Vanden Plas, with its ‘shrunken Rolls-Royce’ cabin, proved a strong seller, with the 1300 version launched in Autumn 1967.

Manufactured in 1969, the Vanden Plas offered was road registered on the 17^th April that year. Finished in Midnight Blue paintwork with a complementary Grey leather interior upholstery, the Princess boasts options such as the four-speed automatic transmission and heated rear windscreen. Offered for auction now having a recorded mileage of c.78,000 credible miles, ‘UJB 664G’ was lavished with a full engine overhaul by Kingsthorpe Precision Engineering in 2021 to the sum of c.£3,700 in total and has covered minimal mileage since its completion (approximately 500 miles). Other notable works have included a full new carpet set in 2020, and in the last year, a new exhaust, carburettor, fuel pump and cosmetic improvements, as well as refurbished wheels with five new tyres and servicing. Offered with a history file containing a collection of invoices and a current V5C document showing eight former keepers.

For more information, please contact:
Paul Cheetham
paul.cheetham@handh.co.uk
07538 667452