The 18-22 Series Leyland Princess

Before the Wedge became the Princess in September 1975 it was sold as the Austin, Morris and Wolseley 18-22 Series when launched in March 1975. These versions are now extremely rare and highly prized, with Wolseley 2200 vesrions particularly sought after.

Category:

Autos & Vehicles

Tags:

• Austin
• Morris
• Princess
• Wolseley
• Wedge
• British
• Leyland

[alijanlondon]

God these cars were awful. Made us a laughing stock of the world

[rovamota]

Hopefully you owned one for long enough to make that judgement based on your experience and not what you've been told.

[Ikophot]

Funky styling and funky music!

[paulhunter123]

like a saab 99 900 but without the build quality

[dolphtrains2]

@dolphtrains2 i always miss that car. it was mint bodywork and immaculate showroom condition interior..... just a shame the mechanicals and electrics were a lemon

[dolphtrains2]

i bought one of these back in 2002 i think it was .... it was a 1981 2200HLE in a champagne colour with automatic transmission. only had it a week. made its first trip from huddersfield to bury, greater manchester....didnt make it back. major oil and water leak. electrics went mental and overheated that bad i actually thought it was going to burst in flames. had to push it from the traffic lights at a retail park in bury and abandon it outside carpet world. cost me £40 on the train journey back

[TheDreamer138]

awesome british technology.

[sandletters39]

like the cars but they didn't fully do the job and it isn't suprising that few survive

[dcanmore]

Love the soundtrack.

[JWROWE3]

Surprising that BL didn't try to foist...er...sell this in the USA. Considering that the "wedge" look was coming from the TR-7 (The Shape of things that break, as I called ours) you'd thing BL would have tried to market this as a triumph in showrooms in America alongside the 7.

[GDWGlos]

0:25 GDA 700N looks like "Good Toon" hehe

[ilia93]

that car is not one bit symmetrical xD

[mrspivvy]

I'd like to get one and put a perkins prima turbo in it.