I passed my driving test in a navy blue 101super in 1977 cvu 178 c , a month after my 17th birthday . slow but good fun in the wet ,tailhappy on crossply tyres just what you need at 17 ,happy days .
What a beautiful, forgotten classic that Victor 101 is. I’ve loved this model since I was a little boy flicking through the pages of my Observers books of Automobiles (which I still have). I love watching your videos Steph, the variety of cars you feature from everyday runabouts from yesterday to exotic sports models is incredible. Although the Series 1 E-type from last week was beautiful and probably on everyone’s dream list I think I would rather own this Victor 101 and stand out from the crowd!
I'd rather have the Victor than the E-Type. The Jag is impossibly gorgeous for sure but the Victor is a better real-world proposition. However, finding a decent one now can be a long drawn out process...
We had 3 great camping holidays taking dad's (overloaded) 101 estate to Italy. We had only 3 faults - the dynamo packed in near Lucerne, and we lost 3 wheel RIMS. One had a pinhole leak and was sorted by fitting a tube, but two actually split. A place in Milan found a replacement from a scrapyard, and a garage in France welded the other together. It had a LOT more space than our previous continental tourer - an A35 van!
We had a FC Staitonwagon in New Zealand in 1975 it was a 4 speed on the floor mum had it converted to a 5 speed Mazda gearbox it would pull 115mph in 5 gear 😂 she did it many times
One gorgeous car..I remember these cars very well as a young lad growing up in Essex..got a Vauxhall Corsa...and I love her to bits!! People say a good car starting out after passing your test, but 42 years later still love Vauxhall cars,going back to 1964 like this model.. awesome...thank you for a great presentation of this lovely car 😁😁😁
This was one of three Vauxhall repmobiles my father had in the 1960s - a greeny FB, a fawn(?) FC and a peacock blue FD (which was streets ahead of the other two in design, imo). As for 'keeping it's shine without polishing' my dad apparently didn't think so, because as a kid I sometimes would spend Sunday afternoons polishing these cars! (I can still smell the Turtle Wax!)
I totally agree with your comment about the FD, I thought it looked stunning when I first saw a picture of it in Practical Motorist all those years ago, and still do; such a forgotten design classic. It still came in base trim with a 3 speed column gear change and a bench front seat, and I think the heater was still an optional extra. When I was learning to drive I got used to the 3 speed on my father's FB and it became my first car. Always thought the 101 FC looked a bit odd with those curved side windows.
Ahhh, memories, the sweet smeel of Turtle Wax, never to be forgotton. No idea if it's still made or not, i haven't waxed a car for decades! Prefering to get my vehicle valeted, one is bone idle.. Thinking about it, is there still a need for 'wax' or 'polished' given cars are finished with a lacquer coat.
I love my Vauxhall Velox since 1950 still running five even after 75 years after manufacture. Very powerful 2275 cc six cylinder car by Vauxhall Motor Company owned by GM .
On the Kenilwoth road in Coventry yaay ! the city of the birth of motor industry uk what a lovely look at a classy car from a bygone era 👍good video ...
My dad had a white 101 Super in the mid-sixties. You're right, the Super model did have a red vinyl bench seat in the front. Why the 'inferior' Deluxe version would have leather seats is beyond me. Anyway, I remember the car very well despite being very small at the time. Dad took the family on holiday to Margate for it's first outing. Dartford Tunnel hadn't been open very long! Everything was a big adventure for me at that age.
Brings back memories of my dads 101 he had in the 70s and changing the engine on the road with some scaffold he'd borrowed from work, Dad loved that car.
I spotted the Australian rego label straight away. We used the same style in NSW in the later years until the use of labels was abolished. The jet plane, below the Deluxe badge, is from the early E series cars. I have one on the glovebox lid in my 1953 Velox. You need to google the GM-Holdens HD/HR series cars, which are contemporary, as the center body section looks almost exactly the same as do the door handles. Great video, as usual, Steph.
According to my contemporary Observer book the Holden was slightly larger in all dimensions, but it does look almost identical. Presumably this was because GM used the same designer and just tweaked the design to make the Australian car suit the local market requirements.
Google search 'Opel Kapitan A'. It was the third member of this trio. All ultimately partially designed by Leo Pruneau, a legendary GM car stylist. It became GM's policy to share technology and styling between the 'overseas' divisions of GM, Vauxhall, Opel and Holden.
Thanks for bringing back many holiday childhood memories with this car Steff Dad was trawler skipper and mostly at sea but my uncle Bob had a 101 and me ,my sister my mum ,uncle ,aunt and two cousins went on many holidays all over UK in this car . Yep 4 kids and 3 adults
My dad had an FB FD,FE and a VX Series , great cars , and a major part of my childhood, so many happy memories, probably why I still drive a Vauxhall today !
My mum had this model and my dad had the PC Cresta , later on I had the Viscount and made my dad very jealous ! But great video and people dont realise just what good value a classic car makes today with the ULEZ rollout !
This has a lot of memories for me. Just in case you don't get the Vauxhall Victor 101 estate to test, I have a quick story for you! In 1977, dad took us to the Lake District for a holiday. Now, the Lakes have a lot of steep, bendy hills called 'Passes.' We were going up a 1.3 gradient. [The steepest hill a vehicle can climb] but the cars coming down are supposed to stop. But didn't! We dropped back, one time because the car overheated! Unfortunately, be landed on a rock! Therefore, the drivers coming down had to help dad lift the corner of the car off the rock and we went on our way! You were talking about the spec. Ours obviously wasn't a Deluxe as it had the bench seat you mentioned. It was two greens, the bottom dark and the top half pale green! It was 'E' reg. So around 1966/67. As you can see, your drive has brought back many memories. Thanks Steph!
My dad had one of these as a company car. It was left behind when we emigrated to Australia in 1968. Dad (later) had a HR Holden, the same colour asthe Victor you are testing!
My uncle restored one of these in the seventies, although I'm sure it had a bench seat in the front, green interior and not two tone either so I guess it was a lower spec model. I didn't go in it very often but I remember it was a very smooth ride and quiet.
Enjoyable video thank you. Circa 1975 / 1976, I was always taking my step dad's 101 out, I recall it being so comfortable with bench seats. A 1965 car but not the deluxe. It was painted a popular two tone white and red. Driving out of Brighton I was kinda racing another 101, and that 101 suddenly turned into a Rover 2000 police car. A ticking off was in order, those were the days 😅
That brings back many memories, Steph. but that one looks like it's the higher spec Super Deluxe. My dad had a 1966 Victor 101 Deluxe saloon, in the dark Storm Grey, with red interior. I'm not sure leather was standard on the Deluxe, ours certainly had vinyl seats, and it had a patterned adonised alluminium dash trim strip too. The Deluxe did not even have bulbs in the reverse lights as standard. There's two very bright, but small mushroom shaped reflector type bulbs in each lamp, and we got them and the gearbox switch, loom etc, from a scrapped one for ours. My dad's was 10 years old, on a D reg when he sold it in1976 after 2 years use. Those vinyl seats stuck to you like molten lava in the long hot summer of 76. His had the 1598 cc engine and column change gearbox, but when the engine expired on a trip down the M1, we replaced it with a salvage yard engine and floor change 4 speed gearbox.
Very interesting. I spent my childhood in a 1965 101 deluxe which had a 4 speed floor change gearbox and individual front seats in ambla. No suggestion of wood trim. Yours seems to be a gem and your reviews bring me pleasure and delight.
This is almost the exact same car as my Dad owned when I was a youngster. I still recall the reg DTE657E (’67?). It was a 1967 Deluxe in that precise colour. That dash is so familiar from childhood and I can still remember playing with those door handle ashtrays in the back. I remember the dash mounted handbrake and the wood trim with the Deluxe badge. The windscreen washer was, indeed, a push switch. I remember that as it had high ‘play value’ for children! It had big leather seats too. It also had the (rather disappointing!) blanking plate instead of a radio. I remember the sad day in the 70s when a trailer turned up to take it off to the scrapyard.
I remembered getting a lift to school in a lovely cherry red example. I didn't sit right back in the rear seat and when my neighbour pulled away I was thrown rather violently.against the back rest..
I had one of them in 1979, I just fell in love with the 101 in the sixties when I was a kid and loved owning it. Sadly people took the mick as I was a young man and traded it in after about 18 months of owing it.
What a beauty. I'm no car expert but we had a Vauxhall Victor as our family car in the 60s, Lovely motor with a fab interior, it was a cream and light brown one if I remember correctly, 4775 NU.
We had one as a family car. A "K" reg. I always thought they looked cool. Later replaced with a 2ltr Vauxhall Cavalier. Great times. I think most just disintegrated over time so this car is very, very rare.
Thank you! I have always loved the look of the 101. My parents had both the previous Victor series - the 1959 and a 1963. We saw the 101 at the time and were in awe of its crisp and clean space-age looks and "big car" feel (we test drove one!). It's all such a long time ago. But you are right... not as many hit the roads in Australia as the FB. Here in Australia I'm pretty sure the problem was it was SO CLOSE to the price of the base model Holden 6-cylinder.
Great video, well presented, and what a lovely car, great to see these proper cars cared for and being driven, rather than being locked away in garages.
Love vintage cars. Remember these, they were everywhere. Always thought Ford and Vauxhall had very similar types of models or at least that were aimed at the same market. The style of this one dates well and still looks good.
My dad had the estate version, had a bench seat in the front and column change, c reg I think, use to drive it out of the driveway and in when he & my mum went to the pub, was only a kid at the time !!
I had one of these in 1973, it was 9 years old and had done 75k with a travelling salesman and I had to have the engine rebuilt, I gave £75.00 for it, mine actually had a 4 speed floor gearshift, I had it for a couple of years and then scrapped it for £10.00 when the chassis was found to be rotted out. Then I bought a Bond Bug 700E, but that's another story.
If my memory serves me right, it was the first car to have a non enamel paint system. It's paintwork was noticeably shinier, but despite attention to the undercoats, it still rusted for England.
I am old enough to remember seeing these cars in my Vauxhall showroom. Very nice review although you did not mention the slightly 'sportier' VX4/90 which was basically the same car with twin carbs and some external embellishments. Nice to see one again.
A great video Steph, of a very rare car nowadays ! My Dad bought one - JLP 249D. It was a 'Powerglide' (Automatic) version. He'd always had Ford Zodiacs before and decided to try a Vauxhall instead. Alas, he was never 'happy' with it, and reverted back to a Mk3 Zodiac Estate, quite quickly. I remember the Vauxhall as very comfortable, but lacking the luxury of the 'big' Fords. A great surviver there, needs the body sorting soon though - signs of trouble brewing here and there ! Thanks for sharing with us Steph. Take care 🙂
One of the best cars iv ever Driven Very comfortable supersmooth, not particular drivers car, but if you like me, I like comfort and this give it to you in bucket loads
I remember them new flippin heck feel old now lovely car .but i remember them being short lived because they disolved after a few years very american .nice though
There was a Vauxhall showroom right across the road from the Cinema I went to in 1964 as a boy of 8 years old and we used to drool at the cars through the window.
I have a1967 FC estate in tibian yellow and caven green it's the second estate I've had a these cars are great and practical just look after them and cherish as these are rare now I've completely renovated mine and only use it when it's dry and take to shows I've owned it for over 25 years
My 2nd car when i passed my test in 72. I owned a 101 estate delux with a four speed floor change. Two ton green. A very nice old motor. A real plodder, but smooth with it. They look great today at classic car shows.
My family, some friends and I went to Aberfeldy from Hertford in one of these, in 1966. It was the same colour too. There were 6 of us, so I assume we had a bench front seat, although I don't remember for certain now.
In 1971 my Dad had a White 1966 (GOP 535D) FCE DeLuxe with front bench seat. We went to Scotland, Wales and East Anglia with my brother and sister sitting with dad in the front, me and my other two sisters with mam in the back, 300 miles 7 up ! (was told top speed was 77mph) Little land speed motif is a later addition. You have driven past the cemetery where my Dad, Mam and elder brother are buried. 👨👩👦
This car is obviouly what the HR holden was based on. The tail lights are different, and the grill, but otherwise its strikingly similar. Holdens had American designed engines though. Given Holden and Vauxhall are both GM I suppose its no big surprise.
I learned to drive in my fathers FB, and passed my test in it in 1967. He replaced that in 1968 with a 1966 FB 101 of that same light green whilst I by then had my own first car a 1964 Mini.
Vauxhall always did build a good car, Remember the Magnum and the Firenza and the 101 E was an annonomous classic, i can hardly remember these passing your dads car from the other way but there was always plenty of them around. Another great piece of motoring history, Many thanks once again x
A excellent little review as always Steph, nice to see that the light switch where you could turn on the interior light and lights on one switch was carried over to the Vauxhalls of my era ie Astra's, Corsa's Cavaliers 😂😂 Don't mention Potholes to me, spent a fortune last week on the family car replacing the shock absorbers and a broken Spring!
A smart design. The similarly designed VX90 version saw use with Luton County Police. I have seen at least two versions in past classic magazines. One used by Slough and one used by Nottingham local authorities.
I was going to say we saw a lot of these in Australia then I noticed the South Australia registration. We have the big Vauxhall Velox, Victor, and the Viva here.
Double de-clutching is probably the answer to the gear change, both up and down the box. Great video, and so evocative of 60's family motoring when it was all about the adventure. Does Steph know about I-Spy books? 😁
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I passed my driving test in a navy blue 101super in 1977 cvu 178 c , a month after my 17th birthday . slow but good fun in the wet ,tailhappy on crossply tyres just what you need at 17 ,happy days .
Thanks For Another Great Video Steph Nice Dress
Subscribed from South Australia here! 1964 is my wife's birth year. Wonderful channel! LOVE it!
Lovely motor.
What a beautiful, forgotten classic that Victor 101 is. I’ve loved this model since I was a little boy flicking through the pages of my Observers books of Automobiles (which I still have). I love watching your videos Steph, the variety of cars you feature from everyday runabouts from yesterday to exotic sports models is incredible. Although the Series 1 E-type from last week was beautiful and probably on everyone’s dream list I think I would rather own this Victor 101 and stand out from the crowd!
I'd rather have the Victor than the E-Type. The Jag is impossibly gorgeous for sure but the Victor is a better real-world proposition. However, finding a decent one now can be a long drawn out process...
The bit Steph edited out at the roadworks: BEEP, BEEEEEEEEP!!! OK, pause the video while I go and tell that f***ing driver to STFU! 19:29
We had 3 great camping holidays taking dad's (overloaded) 101 estate to Italy. We had only 3 faults - the dynamo packed in near Lucerne, and we lost 3 wheel RIMS. One had a pinhole leak and was sorted by fitting a tube, but two actually split. A place in Milan found a replacement from a scrapyard, and a garage in France welded the other together. It had a LOT more space than our previous continental tourer - an A35 van!
Wonderful Steph. I have always liked these cars.
We had a FC Staitonwagon in New Zealand in 1975 it was a 4 speed on the floor mum had it converted to a 5 speed Mazda gearbox it would pull 115mph in 5 gear 😂 she did it many times
One gorgeous car..I remember these cars very well as a young lad growing up in Essex..got a Vauxhall Corsa...and I love her to bits!!
People say a good car starting out after passing your test, but 42 years later still love Vauxhall cars,going back to 1964 like this model.. awesome...thank you for a great presentation of this lovely car 😁😁😁
This was one of three Vauxhall repmobiles my father had in the 1960s - a greeny FB, a fawn(?) FC and a peacock blue FD (which was streets ahead of the other two in design, imo). As for 'keeping it's shine without polishing' my dad apparently didn't think so, because as a kid I sometimes would spend Sunday afternoons polishing these cars! (I can still smell the Turtle Wax!)
I totally agree with your comment about the FD, I thought it looked stunning when I first saw a picture of it in Practical Motorist all those years ago, and still do; such a forgotten design classic. It still came in base trim with a 3 speed column gear change and a bench front seat, and I think the heater was still an optional extra. When I was learning to drive I got used to the 3 speed on my father's FB and it became my first car. Always thought the 101 FC looked a bit odd with those curved side windows.
Ahhh, memories, the sweet smeel of Turtle Wax, never to be forgotton. No idea if it's still made or not, i haven't waxed a car for decades! Prefering to get my vehicle valeted, one is bone idle.. Thinking about it, is there still a need for 'wax' or 'polished' given cars are finished with a lacquer coat.
The FD was the model that Jeff Randall used in the original Randall and Hopkirk Deceased
My father had an apple green FD
Steph another great video, many thanks for sharing
I love my Vauxhall Velox since 1950 still running five even after 75 years after manufacture. Very powerful 2275 cc six cylinder car by Vauxhall Motor Company owned by GM .
Jonesy my maths teacher had one of these in the 60s.... nice old boat.
I've not heard an exhaust note like that in years! There was a chap in our street when I was a kid that had one of these..
I really do have a soft spot for the FC. And I love your outfit Steph❤
On the Kenilwoth road in Coventry yaay ! the city of the birth of motor industry uk what a lovely look at a classy car from a bygone era 👍good video ...
Great car and Kenilworth looking lovely in the sunshine too !
It had a younger brother in Australia called the Vauxhall VIVA . Your looking 👀beautiful today may I add in your lovely blue dress 👍
Lovely classic Vauxhall❤
Beautiful car...Gorgeous driver❤
I've never seen a car review before that was filmed on my road. Nice!
My dad had a white 101 Super in the mid-sixties. You're right, the Super model did have a red vinyl bench seat in the front. Why the 'inferior' Deluxe version would have leather seats is beyond me. Anyway, I remember the car very well despite being very small at the time. Dad took the family on holiday to Margate for it's first outing. Dartford Tunnel hadn't been open very long! Everything was a big adventure for me at that age.
I was once a passenger in a 101, and it has always stuck in my mind: It was strikingly quiet, refined, and with a comfortable ride.
i been co driver in a 1956 Mercedes...back in the early 70s
i had the same feeling, but its had more space inside!
and been a Mercedes, not a Opel!
Yes, neighbours of my parents had a white FC with red upholstery circa 1967/68 it felt modern and refined at the time.
Wow Steph done it again brilliant smashing ❤
Brings back memories of my dads 101 he had in the 70s and changing the engine on the road with some scaffold he'd borrowed from work, Dad loved that car.
I spotted the Australian rego label straight away. We used the same style in NSW in the later years until the use of labels was abolished. The jet plane, below the Deluxe badge, is from the early E series cars. I have one on the glovebox lid in my 1953 Velox. You need to google the GM-Holdens HD/HR series cars, which are contemporary, as the center body section looks almost exactly the same as do the door handles. Great video, as usual, Steph.
I too noticed the Holden 1965-68 HD/HR doors and glass similarly👍 The car being presented has done some travelling!
According to my contemporary Observer book the Holden was slightly larger in all dimensions, but it does look almost identical. Presumably this was because GM used the same designer and just tweaked the design to make the Australian car suit the local market requirements.
@@davidjones332 I completely agree with you.
Google search 'Opel Kapitan A'. It was the third member of this trio. All ultimately partially designed by Leo Pruneau, a legendary GM car stylist. It became GM's policy to share technology and styling between the 'overseas' divisions of GM, Vauxhall, Opel and Holden.
We had one when I was a kid in the late 70’s/early 80’s. My dad loved it and he ran it until the chassis literally corroded and collapsed.
Thanks for bringing back many holiday childhood memories with this car Steff
Dad was trawler skipper and mostly at sea but my uncle Bob had a 101 and me ,my sister my mum ,uncle ,aunt and two cousins went on many holidays all over UK in this car . Yep 4 kids and 3 adults
I always enjoy trying to work out the driving route. I recognised this one straight away - I used that road every day when I was a student!
Where is the test route?
Side profile reminds me of a HD Holden.
@venenareligioest410 no, that was the HB Viva which was sold as a Torana, Brabham version and all. The Victor was sold here as a Vauxhall though.
My God you have brought back fine memories of my 67 V V 101.
My standing memory was the wonderful suspension in that car, you could drive it all day.
My dad had an FB FD,FE and a VX Series , great cars , and a major part of my childhood, so many happy memories, probably why I still drive a Vauxhall today !
Lovely car, thanks for sharing Steph 😊👍
My mum had this model and my dad had the PC Cresta , later on I had the Viscount and made my dad very jealous ! But great video and people dont realise just what good value a classic car makes today with the ULEZ rollout !
Very much looks like a HR Holden but a little bit smaller they came out in the same colour too❤❤
My dad owned one when I was about 9 or 10, it was a big fancy car for the time, lovely.❤
This has a lot of memories for me. Just in case you don't get the Vauxhall Victor 101 estate to test, I have a quick story for you! In 1977, dad took us to the Lake District for a holiday. Now, the Lakes have a lot of steep, bendy hills called 'Passes.' We were going up a 1.3 gradient. [The steepest hill a vehicle can climb] but the cars coming down are supposed to stop. But didn't! We dropped back, one time because the car overheated! Unfortunately, be landed on a rock! Therefore, the drivers coming down had to help dad lift the corner of the car off the rock and we went on our way! You were talking about the spec. Ours obviously wasn't a Deluxe as it had the bench seat you mentioned. It was two greens, the bottom dark and the top half pale green! It was 'E' reg. So around 1966/67. As you can see, your drive has brought back many memories. Thanks Steph!
My dad had one of these as a company car. It was left behind when we emigrated to Australia in 1968. Dad (later) had a HR Holden, the same colour asthe Victor you are testing!
And now Holden has gone into the annals of history, made some interesting cars
My uncle restored one of these in the seventies, although I'm sure it had a bench seat in the front, green interior and not two tone either so I guess it was a lower spec model. I didn't go in it very often but I remember it was a very smooth ride and quiet.
A very well travelled car.
One of my favourite Vauxhalls. Always liked the Victor 101 thanks for sharing it with us Steph. Love your outfit again too.
i just found this channel, you are awesome!! keep up!
Fabulous car, my 1st car FD was a column change and how comfortable that car was…😍
Well appointed car loving the color!!
Love the styling and those front mounted mirrors, lovely colour too.
Enjoyable video thank you.
Circa 1975 / 1976, I was always taking my step dad's 101 out, I recall it being so comfortable with bench seats. A 1965 car but not the deluxe. It was painted a popular two tone white and red.
Driving out of Brighton I was kinda racing another 101, and that 101 suddenly turned into a Rover 2000 police car. A ticking off was in order, those were the days 😅
That brings back many memories, Steph. but that one looks like it's the higher spec Super Deluxe. My dad had a 1966 Victor 101 Deluxe saloon, in the dark Storm Grey, with red interior. I'm not sure leather was standard on the Deluxe, ours certainly had vinyl seats, and it had a patterned adonised alluminium dash trim strip too. The Deluxe did not even have bulbs in the reverse lights as standard. There's two very bright, but small mushroom shaped reflector type bulbs in each lamp, and we got them and the gearbox switch, loom etc, from a scrapped one for ours. My dad's was 10 years old, on a D reg when he sold it in1976 after 2 years use. Those vinyl seats stuck to you like molten lava in the long hot summer of 76. His had the 1598 cc engine and column change gearbox, but when the engine expired on a trip down the M1, we replaced it with a salvage yard engine and floor change 4 speed gearbox.
Very interesting.
I spent my childhood in a 1965 101 deluxe which had a 4 speed floor change gearbox and individual front seats in ambla. No suggestion of wood trim.
Yours seems to be a gem and your reviews bring me pleasure and delight.
I think the Rare Spares Holden 3 speed column shift bush kit also fits the Vauxhall. Part# GSBK001
Cracking review as always. I hope you had a great time at Goodwood. Have. Good week
This is almost the exact same car as my Dad owned when I was a youngster.
I still recall the reg DTE657E (’67?). It was a 1967 Deluxe in that precise colour.
That dash is so familiar from childhood and I can still remember playing with those door handle ashtrays in the back.
I remember the dash mounted handbrake and the wood trim with the Deluxe badge.
The windscreen washer was, indeed, a push switch. I remember that as it had high ‘play value’ for children!
It had big leather seats too.
It also had the (rather disappointing!) blanking plate instead of a radio.
I remember the sad day in the 70s when a trailer turned up to take it off to the scrapyard.
I remembered getting a lift to school in a lovely cherry red example. I didn't sit right back in the rear seat and when my neighbour pulled away I was thrown rather violently.against the back rest..
I had one of them in 1979, I just fell in love with the 101 in the sixties when I was a kid and loved owning it. Sadly people took the mick as I was a young man and traded it in after about 18 months of owing it.
What a beauty. I'm no car expert but we had a Vauxhall Victor as our family car in the 60s, Lovely motor with a fab interior, it was a cream and light brown one if I remember correctly, 4775 NU.
We had one as a family car. A "K" reg. I always thought they looked cool. Later replaced with a 2ltr Vauxhall Cavalier. Great times. I think most just disintegrated over time so this car is very, very rare.
Thank you! I have always loved the look of the 101. My parents had both the previous Victor series - the 1959 and a 1963. We saw the 101 at the time and were in awe of its crisp and clean space-age looks and "big car" feel (we test drove one!). It's all such a long time ago. But you are right... not as many hit the roads in Australia as the FB. Here in Australia I'm pretty sure the problem was it was SO CLOSE to the price of the base model Holden 6-cylinder.
I had a Victor 2000 estate reg PJU 743G 2.5yrs old cost me £400 excellent motor could sleep in it and being a builder great for work 😮 xx.
I had one of these, apart from the vague steering and iffy brakes it rusted away in only eight years.
Great video, well presented, and what a lovely car, great to see these proper cars cared for and being driven, rather than being locked away in garages.
Love vintage cars. Remember these, they were everywhere. Always thought Ford and Vauxhall had very similar types of models or at least that were aimed at the same market. The style of this one dates well and still looks good.
I had one from new in 1966 LPA 962D (I think) Loved it, I had the estate version with Bench seat and column change.
Thank you
The rego sticker blew me away, those were out modded 10 years ago , I kind of miss them
Well done. Enjoyed this vid.
A awesome video. 🙂🙂
My dad had the estate version, had a bench seat in the front and column change, c reg I think, use to drive it out of the driveway and in when he & my mum went to the pub, was only a kid at the time !!
I had one of these in 1973, it was 9 years old and had done 75k with a travelling salesman and I had to have the engine rebuilt, I gave £75.00 for it, mine actually had a 4 speed floor gearshift, I had it for a couple of years and then scrapped it for £10.00 when the chassis was found to be rotted out. Then I bought a Bond Bug 700E, but that's another story.
If my memory serves me right, it was the first car to have a non enamel paint system. It's paintwork was noticeably shinier, but despite attention to the undercoats, it still rusted for England.
I am old enough to remember seeing these cars in my Vauxhall showroom. Very nice review although you did not mention the slightly 'sportier' VX4/90 which was basically the same car with twin carbs and some external embellishments. Nice to see one again.
A great video Steph, of a very rare car nowadays ! My Dad bought one - JLP 249D. It was a 'Powerglide' (Automatic) version. He'd always had Ford Zodiacs before and decided to try a Vauxhall instead. Alas, he was never 'happy' with it, and reverted back to a Mk3 Zodiac Estate, quite quickly. I remember the Vauxhall as very comfortable, but lacking the luxury of the 'big' Fords. A great surviver there, needs the body sorting soon though - signs of trouble brewing here and there ! Thanks for sharing with us Steph. Take care 🙂
Powerglide was a name used by the GM parent company in the US. I assume Vauxhall just used the name.
@@caw25shaThe 2 automatic 101's I have seen were both badged Hydramatic across the boot lid .
I love it when you pick outfit match the car x
We called the one we had in Canada the "Vauxhall Helpless".
One of the best cars iv ever Driven Very comfortable supersmooth, not particular drivers car, but if you like me, I like comfort and this give it to you in bucket loads
I love your videos
Did my apprenticeship on them 60-65
I remember them new flippin heck feel old now lovely car .but i remember them being short lived because they disolved after a few years very american .nice though
There was a Vauxhall showroom right across the road from the Cinema I went to in 1964 as a boy of 8 years old and we used to drool at the cars through the window.
One-hundred-and-one improvements eh. Salute the Victor!
Driving through a very nice area there.
I have a1967 FC estate in tibian yellow and caven green it's the second estate I've had a these cars are great and practical just look after them and cherish as these are rare now I've completely renovated mine and only use it when it's dry and take to shows I've owned it for over 25 years
My 2nd car when i passed my test in 72. I owned a 101 estate delux with a four speed floor change. Two ton green. A very nice old motor. A real plodder, but smooth with it. They look great today at classic car shows.
My family, some friends and I went to Aberfeldy from Hertford in one of these, in 1966. It was the same colour too. There were 6 of us, so I assume we had a bench front seat, although I don't remember for certain now.
From the era when Vauxhalls were known as Rustalls.
In 1971 my Dad had a White 1966 (GOP 535D) FCE DeLuxe with front bench seat. We went to Scotland, Wales and East Anglia with my brother and sister sitting with dad in the front, me and my other two sisters with mam in the back, 300 miles 7 up ! (was told top speed was 77mph) Little land speed motif is a later addition.
You have driven past the cemetery where my Dad, Mam and elder brother are buried. 👨👩👦
My uncle had one of these when I was a child so this video was very interesting for me. Thanks for a great video.
It’s amazing that car is literally 10 years behind any mainstream car sold in the usa at the same time
I absolutely Love your channel!
This car is obviouly what the HR holden was based on. The tail lights are different, and the grill, but otherwise its strikingly similar. Holdens had American designed engines though. Given Holden and Vauxhall are both GM I suppose its no big surprise.
I learned to drive in my fathers FB, and passed my test in it in 1967. He replaced that in 1968 with a 1966 FB 101 of that same light green whilst I by then had my own first car a 1964 Mini.
Vauxhall always did build a good car, Remember the Magnum and the Firenza and the 101 E was an annonomous classic, i can hardly remember these passing your dads car from the other way but there was always plenty of them around. Another great piece of motoring history, Many thanks once again x
My dad had one of these ,column change and bench seat
Spent time with the Vauxhall Cresta with this body shape and the FD Victor also.
I actually owned one 1967 Orange in colour. 3 on the tree & wonderful suspension.
A excellent little review as always Steph, nice to see that the light switch where you could turn on the interior light and lights on one switch was carried over to the Vauxhalls of my era ie Astra's, Corsa's Cavaliers 😂😂
Don't mention Potholes to me, spent a fortune last week on the family car replacing the shock absorbers and a broken Spring!
My brother owned the same model back in the day. It was the 1967 super "LKD318E" in Oyster Grey and in column change
Looking good 👍
A smart design. The similarly designed VX90 version saw use with Luton County Police. I have seen at least two versions in past classic magazines. One used by Slough and one used by Nottingham local authorities.
I was going to say we saw a lot of these in Australia then I noticed the South Australia registration. We have the big Vauxhall Velox, Victor, and the Viva here.
Looking trim Steph ❤
Double de-clutching is probably the answer to the gear change, both up and down the box. Great video, and so evocative of 60's family motoring when it was all about the adventure. Does Steph know about I-Spy books? 😁
Lovely colour .