been scanning again.
Perhaps not as exciting as the first bunch but here you go...
This VX 4/90 had a Rover V8 in it. Can't see the plates in the photos but those destinctive "etched" windows must aid identification. Anyone seen it around? I took this photo in like 1992 or so and then didn't see the car again for ages and assumed it MIA and then it turned up just as neat as in this pic sometime about 1999 or so.
Now heres a string of photos sent to me yonks back by a guy called Heon Stevenson, who wrote for Practical Classics or one of those mags.
Now someof you may remember Nick Larkin had a FD Victor in "staff car sagas" and when he sold it Heon bought it.
Apparenly when the club checked this was the second earliest surviving FD. Wonder if it still is?
Heon then bought another FD Victor 2000 (albeit fitted with a deblacked Ventora grille)
He ran the two together for a bit and then sold Larkin's old car.
He also did this rather fun looking photoshoot to try recreate a 1968 brochure shoot. I have a load more of these I didn't scan.
This VX2300 GLS was (is?) owned by a lady called Thelma Ward. One of the nicest couples you could wish to meet were her and her husband Bob. He was into American iron and had such as Thunderbirds and I think an Eldorado. They had this car from new IIRC and it was mint, unrestored, and who says all old Vauxhalls rust?
Tasman Terror again
This FD was owned by a guy in the Victor OC IIRC. Someone once approached him about joing the VX 4/90 DC and he got a bit irate. Nice car though, an early 2000 model with some "non-original" touches.
Mike Haymans' excellent 2000 pre-restoration
And one of my old ones, an early Victor 2000. Sold to a guy in the club and it got broke for spares. Needed a bit of welding though.
Now talking of rust...
Over the years I have been given a few Victors. About the most promicing sounding was this guy who rang me up, told me he hed to get rid of his aunt's old Victor, a 2000 auto which had 17,000 miles on from new but had been off the road for several years and needed some attention or breaking for spares. So I had a picture in my mind of what a one owner 17,000 mile car would look like so I hot footed down to Kent with a trailer to collect what turned out to be the ropeyist pile of toss ever. I was tempted to tow it straight to the scrappers.
Here's me opening the jammed boot from underneath. There was almost no boot floor.
Interior was rotten. even the seats were unusable.
best bit was when I opened the bonnet and it came off in my hands. You could see the tryes from the engine bay.
Everything was siezed solid on it. I managed to sell the spot lights off it on eBay and then the rest I gave away with another car as a spares package. £200 the pair. The guy said he didn;t want the blue spares car and I said "well then its £250." so he took it.
Then I saw the cheeky beggar selling the engine and box as "slant 4 engine and auto box only 17,000 miles £150" which was kinda half a story, right?
Mike H also had this Victor estate.
It started out as a Victor 1600 but he put in a 2300 slant 4 from a FE Vx4/90 and with the 1600 gearing (and I think 3 speed column shift still) it went like a raped ape. Great fun. He sold it to his mate little Steve who did a full resto on it and converted it to full 2000SL spec. The paintwork was never quite right though, had some adhesion problems in a few places. He lost interest and put it up for sale. No idea what happened to either of them.
This is FYU969J which was recenty spotted with blue stripes in Manchester. This is from when I first had it and before I painted it.
Here's that estate which is on eBay at the moment when I owned it and it worked for its keep shifting Vauxhall parts and panels about the place.
A coupe more shots of ther old Hooleys Ford in Nottingham with Steve and Graham's cars outside
Was a nice old building.
Its been torn down now.
Victor estate car at Billing in 1997 I think.
VX 4/90 club line up from 1994 at Billing. The cars seem to be Mike Hayman's stom grey Victor, Mark Bailey's Honey gold 2000SL, the Garnet Starmist Victor 2000SL which was owned by Stephen someone or another which was another ex-Mike Hayman car, that was used in the Practical Classics Victor vs Mk3 Cortina feature in the mid 1990s. Dashed if I can recall the guys name and I can see his face. The car along side I'd lay odds is Mike Boons VX 4/90, note the KN alloys, and this car was converted to LPG and I believe done so at Vauxhall... Alongside is a Ventora, unknown.
Looking furhter back theres a dark blue Ventora, I believe this ios the one which ended up sold to Vauxhall for their collection.
Vauxhall prototype from about 1966. Would have been a slat 4 powered sports car to kinda rival the Opel GT or a smaller Corvette perhaps. Remember that the C3 had not been laucnhed at this point... Hmmm....
Photo was taken inside Vauxhall's "private" collection when I was a VBOA committee guy and we were invited in as part of a meeting with Vauxhall management. There were some ace cars in there, concepts and old production models with like 3 miles on. We helped them locate an FD Ventora for their colelction as they didn't have one. They got a mint low mileage indigo blue Ventora II with auto and I think PAS (rare option). Had about 33K on the clock.
More from the Brooklands photoshoot
Perhaps not as exciting as the first bunch but here you go...
This VX 4/90 had a Rover V8 in it. Can't see the plates in the photos but those destinctive "etched" windows must aid identification. Anyone seen it around? I took this photo in like 1992 or so and then didn't see the car again for ages and assumed it MIA and then it turned up just as neat as in this pic sometime about 1999 or so.
Now heres a string of photos sent to me yonks back by a guy called Heon Stevenson, who wrote for Practical Classics or one of those mags.
Now someof you may remember Nick Larkin had a FD Victor in "staff car sagas" and when he sold it Heon bought it.
Apparenly when the club checked this was the second earliest surviving FD. Wonder if it still is?
Heon then bought another FD Victor 2000 (albeit fitted with a deblacked Ventora grille)
He ran the two together for a bit and then sold Larkin's old car.
He also did this rather fun looking photoshoot to try recreate a 1968 brochure shoot. I have a load more of these I didn't scan.
This VX2300 GLS was (is?) owned by a lady called Thelma Ward. One of the nicest couples you could wish to meet were her and her husband Bob. He was into American iron and had such as Thunderbirds and I think an Eldorado. They had this car from new IIRC and it was mint, unrestored, and who says all old Vauxhalls rust?
Tasman Terror again
This FD was owned by a guy in the Victor OC IIRC. Someone once approached him about joing the VX 4/90 DC and he got a bit irate. Nice car though, an early 2000 model with some "non-original" touches.
Mike Haymans' excellent 2000 pre-restoration
And one of my old ones, an early Victor 2000. Sold to a guy in the club and it got broke for spares. Needed a bit of welding though.
Now talking of rust...
Over the years I have been given a few Victors. About the most promicing sounding was this guy who rang me up, told me he hed to get rid of his aunt's old Victor, a 2000 auto which had 17,000 miles on from new but had been off the road for several years and needed some attention or breaking for spares. So I had a picture in my mind of what a one owner 17,000 mile car would look like so I hot footed down to Kent with a trailer to collect what turned out to be the ropeyist pile of toss ever. I was tempted to tow it straight to the scrappers.
Here's me opening the jammed boot from underneath. There was almost no boot floor.
Interior was rotten. even the seats were unusable.
best bit was when I opened the bonnet and it came off in my hands. You could see the tryes from the engine bay.
Everything was siezed solid on it. I managed to sell the spot lights off it on eBay and then the rest I gave away with another car as a spares package. £200 the pair. The guy said he didn;t want the blue spares car and I said "well then its £250." so he took it.
Then I saw the cheeky beggar selling the engine and box as "slant 4 engine and auto box only 17,000 miles £150" which was kinda half a story, right?
Mike H also had this Victor estate.
It started out as a Victor 1600 but he put in a 2300 slant 4 from a FE Vx4/90 and with the 1600 gearing (and I think 3 speed column shift still) it went like a raped ape. Great fun. He sold it to his mate little Steve who did a full resto on it and converted it to full 2000SL spec. The paintwork was never quite right though, had some adhesion problems in a few places. He lost interest and put it up for sale. No idea what happened to either of them.
This is FYU969J which was recenty spotted with blue stripes in Manchester. This is from when I first had it and before I painted it.
Here's that estate which is on eBay at the moment when I owned it and it worked for its keep shifting Vauxhall parts and panels about the place.
A coupe more shots of ther old Hooleys Ford in Nottingham with Steve and Graham's cars outside
Was a nice old building.
Its been torn down now.
Victor estate car at Billing in 1997 I think.
VX 4/90 club line up from 1994 at Billing. The cars seem to be Mike Hayman's stom grey Victor, Mark Bailey's Honey gold 2000SL, the Garnet Starmist Victor 2000SL which was owned by Stephen someone or another which was another ex-Mike Hayman car, that was used in the Practical Classics Victor vs Mk3 Cortina feature in the mid 1990s. Dashed if I can recall the guys name and I can see his face. The car along side I'd lay odds is Mike Boons VX 4/90, note the KN alloys, and this car was converted to LPG and I believe done so at Vauxhall... Alongside is a Ventora, unknown.
Looking furhter back theres a dark blue Ventora, I believe this ios the one which ended up sold to Vauxhall for their collection.
Vauxhall prototype from about 1966. Would have been a slat 4 powered sports car to kinda rival the Opel GT or a smaller Corvette perhaps. Remember that the C3 had not been laucnhed at this point... Hmmm....
Photo was taken inside Vauxhall's "private" collection when I was a VBOA committee guy and we were invited in as part of a meeting with Vauxhall management. There were some ace cars in there, concepts and old production models with like 3 miles on. We helped them locate an FD Ventora for their colelction as they didn't have one. They got a mint low mileage indigo blue Ventora II with auto and I think PAS (rare option). Had about 33K on the clock.
More from the Brooklands photoshoot