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Vanden-Plas Princess 1100 and 1300

Leonard Lord had 'experimented' with making a luxury car out of his standard production models with the launch of the Austin A105 Vanden Plas in 1958, and repeated this idea again in 1963. Fred Connolly of Connolly Leather commissioned a leather-trimed Morris 1100, and Kingsbury were asked to go further and create a Vanden Plas 1100 for the 1963 London Motor Show. The car generated many orders and was put into production, being upgraded to 1300 along with the rest of the ADO16 models. Vanden Plas 1500 and 1750 versions of the Austin Allegro replaced the 1100/1300 models

Vanden-Plas Princess 1300. Fred Connolly (of Connolly Leather) commissioned a leather-trimmed luxury version of the Morris 1100, and BMC developed this into a Vanden-Plas 1300 exhibition car at the 1963 Motor Show. So many orders flooded in that the car was launched as a production model.	Vanden-Plas Princess 1100. Fred Connolly commissioned BMC to built him a luxury Morris 1100 to show off his leather business. When this car was exhibited people asked if they could have one, and the VDP 1100 was sold from 1964.	Vanden-Plas Princess 1100. Mechanically the VDP 1100 was given the same 109cc engine of the MG 1100, whilst the style and finish came from the big Princess 3-litres. 16,000 were sold from 1963-67.	Vanden-Plas Princess 1300.	Vanden-Plas Princess 1300. Early in 1967 the small VDP cars gained the option of a 1275cc engine, and by the autumn all 1100 cars were revised to MkII with the 1300 being an official sales model.
Vanden-Plas Princess 1300. The last VDP 1300 left the factory in 1974 after 27,000 had been built.	Vanden Plas 1100	Vanden Plas Cars	Alec Issigonis (1906-88)	Vanden Plas 1500 and 1750

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