Saw them at Middlesborough Speedway Track.

They don't make cars like that any more...

Great for their time but god did they rust ! in fact Vauxhalls in particular became known for it.

You can see on some pics that the headlamps rims are in chrome. This did not carry on into production though. Some dealers thought they looked good and chromed them themselves. The UTM reg was Vauxhall own registrations. When they were new the cars drove beautifully. I owned supers and a Delookz. The Delookz was very comfortable with individual leather front seats and carpet in the front too. The standard model (in black) in one picture shows wheel arch protectors which were not a standard fit for the standard but actually were an accessory which you can see in the accessories brochure. A great car. I wish I still had one.

Lovely car

Has to be 1996. I was there 12:04. Honey Gold FD Victor 2000SL.

Nice looking shop I bet it was a good life with a all the lads in the works 😊

This is my favourite version, with the chrom "bumper" surrounding the grille!

Often went on holiday in a victor. Trouble is after a fortnight by the sea we had to get the train home because the Victor had rusted away!

Pity that they forgot that ice and salt are common on British roads during winter, unless, of course, they set out to create in the 57 Victor, the best rust trap imaginable!

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The music seems to add extra chrome to the cars. It's like watching American Graffiti. Love this video. It's interesting to look back at how people were in 1994 and 1995 as well. The old chap casually smoking a pipe is something you don't see anymore. It's hard to comprehend that the mk2 Astras, Volvo 740, mk4 Escorts weren't classics then, not even close.

Very cool ! Check out our vauxhall we just got one!

I still have a 1962 FB, with just over 40,000 miles. Still starts and runs great! Getting parts here in Canada is a problem though!

"Trunk"? Vauxhall might have been our slice of GM Americana, but "boot", please!

Great looking car and ran smoothly .I have a later 61 model that has survived pretty well .To say they rusted yes they did but so did many cars from the late 50s early 60s with no rust protection and mud traps galore.

I was surprised to see a 1960 PA at 0:24 in what purports to be a promotion of the '59 Victor. The raised top to the grille gives the PA away as a 1960 model, where the '59 had a straight top. Very nice to see these old images, they take me back to when I worked at a Vauxhall dealer in the early sixties.

"Holds the road like a limpet"--incredible!

By this time GM was marketing Vauxhalls through Pontiac dealers in rhe U.S.

Butt ugly car

Seated 6, but with 6 adults you were asking for trouble, the rear leaf springs were 3 leaves, and the main leaf would snap right above the axle. Vauxhall springs have always been weak - they still break on much newer models.

People remember the rust and forget what a well-finished car it was with a superb,sweet little engine. Ancillaries were mostly by locally made AC Delco rather than Lucas.

Some of the employes thought 'it' would never end!

amazing

And the jobs went to Germany

Thanks for uploading this . Obviously a dealer training film for the updated FA. Such a shame these cars rusted so badly , not many left now.

I remember, as a child, cycling past VM at Luton and smelling the paint fumes, same at Dodge in Dunstable. The area was crammed with manufacturing but, when the dads cycled home smelling of cutting fluid each night, none of them was ever smiling; the boredom and frustration must have been awful.

A good looking effort at copying American styling of the later 50's. Pity there are so few of them left because they rusted so quickly, and badly. I haven't seen one in Australia in decades.

My uncle had the Vauxhall Cresta I think 1959. Year it was built.

I learned how to gas weld car tin on a 101. Lots needed to be to welded on those old rust buckets to be honest...

It looks like a 1952 chev.

Looks like the hd hr holden in australia 1964 1965 models Being general motors Only differance is the front and rear the sides are similer But in australia version we got a 6 cylinder engine 186.or 178 cubic inch motor not 4 cylinder. Love GM CARS HOLDEN OPAL CHEV AND VAUXHALL.. BUICK.OLDSMOBILE. ALL GM PRODUCTS.EVEN GM DAWOO.

Yo también conservo uno igual 1959

I remember the truck plant at Dunstable and all the other engineering places to work, i wonder why successive governments allowed our industries to be shipped overseas, putting workers on the dole. seems stupid to me. Last time i went to Luton i drove through the old vauxhall area , its gone ! as kids we would ride our bikes to watch the production lines from the perimeter fence. Luton was Vauxhall !

I bought a 1957 Wyvern in 1966 from a neighbour for £50 when I was 19. My 1st car. I loved it, especially in bad weather when my two young MOD brothers rode around on Lambrettas getting soaked & frozen 😄💁‍♀️

What a great piece of automotive history, I love the series E Vauxhalls, without doubt one of my favourite British cars. My father had a 1948 Vauxhall 12 (precursor to the L type Wyvern) which he brought back from Malta where he flew Shackletons in the RAF. Unfortunately, he wrote off the Vauxhall soon after returning to the UK. However, after replacing the '12' with a '56 Hillman Husky, he saw sense and bought a '56 series E Vauxhall Cresta in two tone Silver Straw and Maroon; I suspect that was also the colour of the one featured in the black & white T.V. ads, certainly the few photos (black & white) I have of the Cresta look exactly like the the shades in the ads! I thought the car beautiful as an impressionable child and continue to do so to this day. Sadly they were very susceptible to rust and the Cresta eventually succumbed to this!

No way where FBs built to hold 6 passengers, well over loaded at that, these where 4 passenger European cars

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I thought they added the rust in the factory

Lovely memories of my first car a 1960 series 2 deluxe costing £80 in 1968 ( two tone blue and grey SBL 582, are you still out there?) Good reliable car which takes a lot of stick over the rust issue when several other makes of the day were just as bad! Thanks.

Gee the door handles started to drag on the road when it went around that S bend.

This is the Victor, owned from new, in 1960, by Valerie Evans of Northwood, Middlesex. She gave the car to the Victor Owners Club in 1994. Good to see it looked after, and in fine fettle.

3 lane highways,how blood dangerous

Did my apprenticeship on them ,happy days

I served my time on all these Vauxhalls only downside was they rusted to bits after about two or three years, I know I welded many many replacement panels o them as well as the "E" models and "PA`S. "E" Models rear spring front shackles coming through the floor under the rear seat, welded in new rear chassis members in on many of them, but still liked them all.

Wyvern /Velox. Rust buckets from Vauxhall. Those were the days though. Aaaahhh.

Thanks for posting. Scant coverage of FBs, & my fave, FBH, that I spotted amongst (surprisingly too many) Fs. Even an FCH was overlooked. 1st gen victors shoulda been designated 'FA', as now that's all that's left of 'em. The Vauxhall Rust-alls.

Really enjoyed this video. Looks to be from December 1958 as we can see Series 2 models (Supers and a Deluxe). Keep finding them Neil.

Wow, loved the advert.

My FC 101 had a bigger boot than my PB Velox did. Sadly my 101 was a 'Powerglide ' two speed auto. Slowest car I ever owned.