Bill's 1963 Vauxhall Victor | EP6 Owner's Club

[@bondjamesbond9041]

Love these Victors. I had one in the 1980's two tone green deluxe model .

[@ukrestorevival]

Oh nice! Sounds great, what happened to it?

[@blackpool321]

Its gorgeous i had one in the late 80s , it rusted everywhere . Loved it though.

[@ukrestorevival]

Lovely cars aren't they! Shame, rust seems to be a common killer amongst these!

[@JoshMcCallion]

'Bill's Vauxhall Victor, Victor' 😅 Great video again mate

[@ukrestorevival]

Aha cheers buddy! 👏

[@iDayno]

Do like these old Victor's, great video and well presented, subscribed :)

[@ukrestorevival]

Ah thanks very much! I very much enjoyed seeing and riding in it! Appreciate the subscribe, got some fantastic videos coming soon

[@speedtriplerider7853]

Wow this took me back to 1973 and my first car. I had a two tone green one and I loved it.

[@ukrestorevival]

No way, that's a very cool first car! How long did you have it for?

[@speedtriplerider7853]

@@ukrestorevival about 2 years but bear in mind back then it had no nostalgia attached to it, it was just another car - i actually sold it so i could get a motorbike

[@ukrestorevival]

@speedtriplerider7853 oh really! Do you miss it now, or are you into your two wheels more?

[@speedtriplerider7853]

@@ukrestorevival no i don't miss it - it was a long time ago and these days i'm just a fair weather biker - i'm happy with my skoda rapid it's today's equivalent of the old victor - simple, no-nonsense, reliable and cheap. my second car was a reliant van hahaha

[@ukrestorevival]

@speedtriplerider7853 haha fair enough! There's a lot to be said for a car that can just be no nonsense and reliable! Hope you liked the video 🙌 have loads more great chats coming up so feel free to subscribe

[@Any.old.iron.666]

I was speaking to my Dad before and apparently the car has actually only been round the clock once. I thought he'd told me a while ago that the car had been round the clock twice, but it's actually our Rover P6 that has been round the clock twice. Sorry for the error.

[@ukrestorevival]

No worries! Still a fine thing indeed 🙌

[@nygelmiller5293]

So many miles ! Both cars are incredible! I had a 200000 mile Vauxhall Carlton, you would never have known! 8 times round the world!

[@nygelmiller5293]

Our neighbour, when I was growing up, had one like this. In the same elegan̈t colour. Best colour!

[@ukrestorevival]

No way, that's great! Drop me an email if you fancy featuring on the channel! [e-mail] 🙌

[@tiplady44]

Did my apprenticeship on Vauxhall cars,1960 -65 Loved driving the cresta 👍

[@ukrestorevival]

No way, that's great! I might have a Cresta episode coming soon... 👀 Subscribe to make sure you don't miss it!

[@oldclassiccarUK]

Nice to see the old Victor, it appears at a number of meets we get to (near Crewe???)

[@ukrestorevival]

Isn't it just! 😀 Yes, we met just outside Crewe, Nantwich - hence the frozen lake! I'd love to come to see of your shows near Derbyshire?!

[@CarTractionvids]

@@ukrestorevival Most of the shows we get to are around Cheshire hence recognising the lake and the FB, that one gets to many of the meets we go to. Nice to see it again! You might recognise the car in one of my thumbnails, ie kzbin.info/www/bejne/lZvKeKt-nNuln6c :-)

[@ukrestorevival]

@@CarTractionvids ha! Brilliant 😊 Famous Victor... Drop me a message on IG, I'd love to come and film at some of your events! P.S I've subscribed! 🙌

[@CarTractionvids]

@ukrestorevival thanks for the sub!! (Funnily enough that reply was by my dad who hadn't noticed yt was set on my account!!)

[@ukrestorevival]

Ha! Very cool Indeed. If you have or know any cool cars worth watching, do let me know!

[@usernamesreprise4068]

I passed my test in one of these FB Victors a B reg in 1973 when it was ten years old, I was utterly expected to fail as the rear shock absorbers were semi siezed and when you went round corners the inside edge would rise alarmingly and stay there whichever side you had gone round the corner on, and you had to wiggle and squiggle it on the steering to get it to eventually come back down again, it also had a graunchy diff whine you could hear two hundred yards away, I was in no doubt the examiner (who I understood was the chief examiner of the station and had the reputation locally of being a grouchy unsmiling unforgiving tyrant named Webster who punished the slightest mistake with an instant fail with no second chances offered) was going to fail ME as well, as it turned out he passed me first time to my complete and utter surprise....especially in light of every other applicant that day bar for me being in brand new driving school dual control cars all failing....... except for one............who just happened to be a curvy young female blonde bit of group four, and in my opinion was a danger on the road as she was such an empty air head with no lane discipline whatsoever........ oddly enough her examiner just happened to be a young single guy, but hey go figure eh ?. and for that reason Victor FB's had a warm spot in my heart from that moment on.

[@ukrestorevival]

Well well! Quite the story that! Ha 😆 they are charming to be in, aren't they! And I suppose for whatever reason, you have a Victor to thank for that day!

[@usernamesreprise4068]

@@ukrestorevival Yes I did, a similar thing happened several years later when I took my Class one HGV test, three days before my test ( which at that point I had only had two(seperate) hours behind the wheel of a forty four ton Volvo F12 with a forty five foot flat trailer) three days before I had jumped out of a seven and a half tonner Cargo in a builders yard and sprained my left ankle so badly on a two by two I could barely walk, no joke I really could barely walk ! but after a one hour lesson (my third) the driving School I was using..BRS HGV Driving schools chief exec, said oops.....whoopsy - you know your test is next thursday, - well due to an administerial cock up - its actually in half an hours time in Birkenhead ! - but its ok just go and fail it and WE will provide ALL future lessons free until a retest. this crapped further on a bad day and I was a bag of nerves at the test centre, to cut this long story shorter I went and took the test, If you know anything about old heavies back then you will know they had manual 16 speed boxes which in basic terms means a four over four high and low speed splitter in each gear then you reached 8th you flicked a dash mounted range changer and started all over again (this is important for later !) once more "I" got the chief examiner AGAIN (just my luck), the class one HGV test is twice as long as a car test and FAR more exacting with such things among others as a DOWN hill start as well as an uphill, anyway, in my own opinion I was doing quite well on the test up to that point - until we came to the down hill, cutting a long story short I accidently split it high on the range changer and didnt notice, then when instructed to proceed wound it up and let the clutch out and BAM it stalled as dead as a door nail halfway out from behind a parked car I was in NINTH gear, instinct kicked in and made me clutch in flick it low and drop the clutch again and it started immediately and off we went, with me thinking BAST^RD ive just failed good and proper.......when we eventually got back he went through the usual and then said "you passed" with NO advisories - I sat arguing with him saying I KNOW I failed to which he calmly said you mean the down hill ? - Ive never before seen such instinctive mastery of the controls in a candidate as you displayed then and far from failing you I was highly impressed you NEVER lost control of the vehicle.....again go figure.

[@ukrestorevival]

Wow! Full of motoring stories ha 😊 you clearly have the HGV gift 🙌

[@juliancaston9598]

My late Dad had an FB victor super in Venetian Red with a 3 on the tree gearbox and a front bench seat in grey vinyl

[@asa1973100]

My dad had one with walnut dashboard in it

[@ukrestorevival]

Oh wow! Did you grow up in it?

[@usernamesreprise4068]

That will have been a VX 4/90 which was the slightly upmarket version of the Victor.

[@lesliesmith9155]

Love em working man's lucky buy good all rounder not posh but will get you to work 😊❤

[@ukrestorevival]

Agreed! As Bill said, it was pristine, he wouldn't drive it!! The perfect balance of a lovely old classic, but not too scared to drive it lots 😊