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Princess ‘Tarts Parlour’ Bourne
out of a 1979 competition held by Custom Car magazine in association with
Austin-Morris, entries were invited to redesign the Princess and the winning design
drawing was by Pete Birtwhistle. A Wedge was then taken to Graffiti Auto Art
who set about turning Pete’s sketches into reality. First up
was to cut slots in the front wings for the wrap around grille, made out of
16 separate pieces of tube, then at the back a ‘continental kit’ was added
where the spare wheel stands across a specially contoured boot lid in an
upright position. A re-profiled rear bumper was made and re-chromed and
chrome wire wheels were specially imported from the USA. The
smaller rear door windows and vinyl quarters were trimmed and the inside of
the rear window surround was also panelled in, then it was off to the paint
shop. Originally
the car was sprayed pink but apparently it looked awful, so it was again
repainted, this time in silver, which did look better, but was marred by the
original pink colour showing through. I don’t
have any information on what changes were made to the interior. Anyone
have any info on the whereabouts of this car, or what fate befell it? |
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