UK based dealer awarded top European Concours award

UK based dealer awarded top European Concours award

Hurst Park Automobiles were overjoyed when they took 1st place with their Vanden-Plas Princess 4 Ltr R in the 1958-1975 class at the recent Antwerp Classic Salon.

The British Classics which are much underrated were built at Vanden-Plas to a very high standard, fitted with Rolls Royce Engines and are often over looked in favour of more glamorous sports saloons from the same period as this particular fine example, which has covered a tiny 19,000 miles since new, and picked out for its extraordinary originality and standard of presentation by the Concours judges.

Hurst Park have attended the show for nearly 20 years, and were naturally delighted to of received the award and report the cars subsequent sale.

Thanks to Mark Charles for providing the image

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