Wacky Wedge

[rovamota]

Here's the Century Supreme Oils 1976 Princess 2200, which was customised in 1979. Despite the huge bonnet bulge, it has the standard 2200 six-cylinder engine installed. Yup, it was all show and no go.

Anyone know what happened to it?





Kev.

[DarrenW]

That's AMAZING.

;D

[dollywobbler]

Hi Kev. That is bonkers!

[sootyridesagain]

Aug 27, 2008 20:32:38 GMT rovamota said:

Here's the Century Supreme Oils 1976 Princess 2200, which was customised in 1979. Despite the huge bonnet bulge, it has the standard 2200 six-cylinder engine installed. Yup, it was all show and no go.

Anyone know what happened to it?





Kev.

IIRC a transverse 6-pot too, with the gearbox underneath the engine like on a Mini!!

[PhoenixCapri]

Not again! Now I have two reasons to want to mod a princess! I hope it survived is AWSOME!

[Akira]

I used to love my Princess. It was like driving a huge feather bed mounted on bouncy springs with castors on the ends.

[cobblers]

Apparently the gearboxes off these will go on a rover V8, and some crazy mad fool has put a transversely mounted RV8 in the front of a Mini using one.
Which is quite impressive if only for being different!

[Lankytim]

Must have been alot of work to do that!

[skinley]

On a similar note, I vaguely remember seeing a 'customised' Allegro in a magazine when I was about six, (1979). It was owned by none other than Dave Lee Travis.

[fogey]

Aug 27, 2008 21:02:48 GMT skinley said:

On a similar note, I vaguely remember seeing a 'customised' Allegro in a magazine when I was about six, (1979). It was owned by none other than Dave Lee Travis.

I remember Dave Lee Travis once had an Allegro which he customised for use in London by hanging old tyres around the bodywork as protection from other cars. Could this be what you are thinking of? (it appeared in a couple og magazines at the time)

[Deleted]

Aug 27, 2008 21:02:48 GMT skinley said:

On a similar note, I vaguely remember seeing a 'customised' Allegro in a magazine when I was about six, (1979). It was owned by none other than Dave Lee Travis.

Was'nt that the London proof car , matt black with yellow lines over it and tyres round the sides .

[ndg]

Here's my 'rally ready' princess in the Sahara


I really liked that car, did 10,000 miles of pretty much trouble free motoring, and 400 bloody awfuls ones to the finish with no suspension.....

£50 well spent.

N.

[shedspeed]

Apparently the gearboxes off these will go on a rover V8, and some crazy mad fool has put a transversely mounted RV8 in the front of a Mini using one.

www.spagweb.com/v8mini/

[Davenger]

There's one in a fairly standard looking black mini clubman in australia.
RV8 needed an adaptor plat made up so it would fit on the princess box IIRC

Edit:
I found the website
www.geocities.com/jharkola/Viku2.html

[tri]

That's awesome!

[scaryoldcortina]

can I say bozosoku? and yes. awesome beyond compare

[Carter]

Yeah very Boso-esque... crazy thing, looks pretty good.

Aug 27, 2008 21:26:19 GMT ndg said:

Here's my 'rally ready' princess in the Sahara


I really liked that car, did 10,000 miles of pretty much trouble free motoring, and 400 bloody awfuls ones to the finish with no suspension.....

£50 well spent.

N.

Sweet, thats a superb pic. Got more?.. you should do a thread about it, unless you already have and I missed it?

[stealthstylz]

Forgot about that car, looks even cooler than I remember it being.

Matt

[street]

That's just brilliant!!!
There was a Princess with a transverse 6-pot down the scrapyard a while back. I was looking for the calipers but perhaps I should have been more interested in the gearbox!

[PhoenixCapri]

Aug 27, 2008 21:26:19 GMT ndg said:

Here's my 'rally ready' princess in the Sahara


I really liked that car, did 10,000 miles of pretty much trouble free motoring, and 400 bloody awfuls ones to the finish with no suspension.....

£50 well spent.

N.

Hello mate! Bout time you made it on here, not seen that pic before, so I second the need for a write-up thread