Friday Mystery Car

Spotted this in Park Slope a number of months back. Had to rub my eyes in disbelief.  I can't tell if the fact that I actually identified this weird car on sight impressed my date, or if the nerd power simply overwhelmed her.  Needless to say i didn't get any action that night.

Comments

[James]

Looks like some spawn from the Cold War era BMC parts bin...Riley?

[Bradley Price]

Warm

[James]

The grille is throwing me off.

[Off Camber]

Vanden Plas Princess 1300

[Raphael Orlove]

I really hope you tried to explain why the car was interesting, because that is a nigh-impossible task and usually ends in hilarity

[Automobiliac]

Yes, it is an Austin Princess Vanden Plas 1300. I just told her this was an obscure British car and I had no idea how the hell it was in Park Slope. I don't think that ID-ing the car was a problem. It was the whole stopping to photograph it from 3 angles that might have been too much. HAHA.

[Helmut Fenders]

Well, I hope you've learned your lesson..
I knew it was an Austin, but hope I would have had the sense not to admit it.

[syed]

i was gonna say MG 1100....but i was obviously in denial of the Princess.

[Mitchell King]

Amazing .. I thought GM was the Champion of Badge Engineering !

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austin_1300

[Rory Carroll]

A couple of my old roomates found a Matchbox version of the MG 1100 version of this inside of an old thrift-store electric organ. Still have it. It has a little molded plastic dog in the cargo area.