In this video we explore some of the most incredible and mysterious luxury cars of Vanden Plas including some prototypes lost to time and the story of the English Vanden Plas. Its rise with the Princess and its fall into a badge engineering exercise, this isn’t a documentary it’s more of a timeline of events.

The Vanden Plas 1500, the Austin Allegro was its last full Vanden Plas new model but with the Kingsbury Works killed off in 1979 by British Leyland the marque ceased to be what it once was.

I have credited where possible these works are transformative.

Austin Memories is the best source for all Austin/Longbridge related information I have used some of these images in this video: http://www.austinmemories.com

ARonline is a great source for information; https://www.aronline.co.uk/

All images of the tunnels belong to the BMIHT it goes without saying this is the best place to visit if you enjoy these videos and history: http://britishmotormuseum.co.uk/

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