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5.900 cc
V8
Bonhams : Den Hartogh Sale
Ford Museum
Hillegom
Netherlands
June 2018
Estimated : € 25.000 - 35.000
Sold for € 43.700
The swansong for the legacy of the Leland Model L came when Lincoln made its last revisions to the V8. The respected powerplant, with its fork-and-blade connecting rods remained for 1931 but with new cylinder heads, manifolding, and a downdraft 2-barrel carburetor (the first appearance of a downdraft 2-barrel on any American automobile.) Its horsepower increased dramatically, now being rated at 120 brake horsepower, up 1/3 from the same displacement's 90bhp rating in 1930.
Of course, these changes preempted the arrival of the V12 model the following year, but even when production of the V12 KB began, Lincoln maintained the V8 offered on the shorter 136-inch wheelbase in 1932. The success of the KB signaled the end of the line for the decade long production of the renowned Leland V8 model.
This car is a cleanly presented example which has clearly been the recipient of a restoration some time ago. The color choices of a rich, creamy white paint with chocolate brown for the wings and body moldings and accent of orange wheels all of which plays well to the lines of the coachwork. A single document on file confirms that the Lincoln was shipped into the Netherlands in August 1991. It is assumed that prior to this its life had been in the United States.
995 cc
4 in-line
18 PS @ 3.100 rpm
Vmax : 70 km/h
820 kg
Erwin Hymer Museum
Bad Waldsee
Germany
December 2019
Sold for £ 1.800
The Jaguar Land-Rover Collection
Brightwells Auctions
Bicester Heritage
Buckingham Road
Bicester
Oxfordshire
England
March 2018
Initially sold under the Austin, Morris and Wolseley banners from 1975, the 18-22 range used Avant-Garde styling by Harris Mann and was produced to compete against the up-market Cortinas and base Granadas of the period.
Its wedge shape was quite a lot to take on board for the ‘small c’ conservative buying public, but they eventually, if rather half-heartedly got used to it and by the time it ceased production in 1982, some 225.000 had been made – hardly a run-away success but no disaster either.
Well appointed, with lots of room thanks to their east/west engine layout, customers liked their reliable and torquey B-Series engines and smooth E-Series six-cylinder units which were still mounted across the car.
Within a year of its launch, the Wolseley brand had been dropped and the range rationalised under the Princess brand. From 1978, a facelift in the form of the Princess 2 used the new and excellent O-series ohc engine in place of the ageing ohv B-Series unit, the car soldiering on until it was replaced by the Ambassador in 1982 which came complete with hatchback.
This Princess 2 2000HL Automatic dates from 1980 and has had four previous owners according to the V5C. Its most recent MOT expired in May 2013, although it doesn’t appear to have had much use prior to that for some time. Its odometer reads 26.049 miles, although we haven’t been able to substantiate that this is correct and have not attempted to start the vehicle since its arrival on site.
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