There’s nothing quite as un-useful as an undocumented celebrity connection. My mother’s dog heard from the neighbor’s cat that the veterinarian said Barbara Stanwyck once owned this car. Do you really trust the cat, who you’ve seen trying to sneak into the bed when your wife’s in there one too many times, or the dog, who makes calculating looks every time you’re eating a steak? A one-time candidate for the RustyButTrusty fleet, a first-series Alfetta GT 1.8, was said to have been bought new by a US serviceman in Cambodia and then brought back to the states, but with no documentation, it’s hard to say how much of that was fabricated by a previous owner and then passed along by an unwitting current owner (and who was selling cars in Cambodia in 1975 anyways?). Anyhow, odd and unsubstantiated histories aside, check out this 1967 Van Den Plas Princess 4-Litre R for sale for $3500 in the hills of Palo Alto, CA.
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