In the early 1960s Sir Alexander Arnold Constantine Issigonis was given a project from his bosses at BMC (British Motor Corp) with the internal and thoroughly unsexy name ADO16. This project would be the basis for a family of larger than the Mini vehicles including the Austin 1100/1300, MG 1100/1300 and Morris 1100/1300. Combined production figures for the entire family made the ADO16 front drive machine one of the best selling vehicles in the UK, and it was exported in decent quantity (60,000 from 1968-1972 according to
austinamericausa.com). Unfortunately the Austin America wasn't well suited to the US style of high-speed freeway driving and earned a reputation for poor quality, rust, and repeated mechanical failures. Few remain intact, much less on the road today, but one of them is this
1969 Austin America for sale in La Mirada, CA for $3,500 via craigslist.
BMC in the 1960s was well on its way to becoming the behemoth British Leyland, creating new badge-engineered models at a rate even GM would baulk at. The most radical however, was based on the large Austin A110 saloon, was this Vanden Plas. The bodywork was made more upright, removing fins and a higher roof, but that wasn't the most significant change. That was left for under the bonnet, where a 4-Litre Rolls-Royce engine could be found, sourced from their Ferret military vehicle. Find this 1964 (or 1966) Vanden Plas Princess R for sale in Minto, NSW for $5,500 AUD ($4,150 USD at the time of writing) via gumtree. 
