Vauxhall automobile---ever heard of them?
Just remembered this automobile from the 50's-60's and was not aware they were still in business. This is a 1958 model----saw a few around back many years ago. Vauxhall Motors is a UK car company. It is a subsidiary of General Motors. Most current Vauxhall models are right-hand drive derivatives of GM's Opel brand with several performance vehicles coming from Holden/Holden Special Vehicles in Australia and Lotus Cars of Norfolk, England (owned by Malaysia's Proton). Pretty nice looking line of cars. Link to their website--->here
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I like the Renalut Dauphine that's next to it. I had one. Joe 0 -
Looks like she'd ride like a dream... 0 -
The English and French both had a good crack at the U.S. market but their cars couldn't stand up to American useage.
Americans kick the tires and light the fires and are not into maintenance and tinkering those cars required.0 -
I remember seeing Vauxhalls when I was a kid. Also Renaults, Citroens, Triumphs, and MGs. One of my teachers in elementary school had a Vauxhall.
I thought a red Triumph TR6 roadster was about the prettiest car I ever saw when I was 6 years old.0 -
Had a friend that had one mid 60's. We carpooled so I rode in his a lot. Great gas mileage but it didn't matter much back then. His was about the size of a Mini as I recall. Rode good but he worked on it a lot, but he was a pretty good mechanic and a little picky about the way his vehicles ran. I always thought it was German. 0 -
Whatever happened to the Opel? My Father had one in the 60's 0 -
still big in england, 2 door compact.
it was cheap on gas, those were the days
if I remember right
its Vauxhall/opel, Englands general motors0 -
Use to see them once and awhile back in the 1960s.I work in a wrecking yard and we still have some parts for them.We also have a dual carb Triumph Harold engine.My wife use to have a 1959 Morris Minor 1000.I had 7 English Ford Anglia's over a 5 year period.We scrapped a BMW Isetta back in the late 1960s.A friend had a NSU Prinz 2 cylinder 2 stroke car and also a Hillman Husky.The guy down the street had a 2 stroke Messorsmight.We also scrapped a 1958 Goliath Express Van.Looked like a VW micro bus,but had a aluminum body.Another friend had a Goliath 2dr sedan,but a forgot to put antifreeze in it one winter and the motor freeze broke.We also scrapped a Borgward Isabella that ran good,till we beat the crap out of it.One guy came in and bought every part he could unbolt off of it.Most of this was 40 years ago.Use to be a 3 cylinder DKW near my school,but never seen it run.
Use to see a Morgan around town,but never seen it run.
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Ive still got a couple of old Opel GT's. Great little cars, and with a little work, they can RUN! Years ago, (late 60s/early 70s) Vauxhall built 2 prototype versions of the Opel GT. Was the coolest thing youve ever seen. Something like a cross between a Stingray Vette and a 280z, but not like either one. One was wrecked I think, the other was disassembled and disappeared. I would love to find that thing. 0 -
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Use to be a 3 cylinder DKW near my school,but never seen it run.
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I've only saw one of those in my life and it didn't run either!
Glad you mentioned it. I was beginning to think I imagined it.
Allen0 -
Why don't the Brits make computers?
Can't figure out how to get them to leak oil.
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Why do the Brits drink warm beer--they have Lucas refrigerators.
Pete0 -
I like the Opel Manta, but most of these foreign cars are junk. I lived in Europe for two years and most of the cars are cast iron and tin. 0 -
Anyone remember the Lloyd. I remember when they were being sold in the US in the late 1950s. Local dealer in Greensboro NC was going to so how great it was by running one around in a shopping center with out stopping for a couple of months. They figured out how to put gas in and change drivers without stopping. it lasted about a month because they didn't figure a way to add oil. I remember see a lot of Vauxhalls. They were fairly popular. I remember the first Datsun's. It was called the Blue Bird. How about the All State? It was a Henry J that was sold by Sear's. 0 -
AAAHH, Lucas Electronics.
The Prince of Darkness.
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My father had a Ford Consul in 1960 or so, until he hit a patch of ice and totaled it.
My father-in-law currently has a Trabant; not sure of the year. A friend of his gave it to him a few years back (my father in law had a service station). I saw it, and said "You have a trabant?!" The first thing he said was "You know what that is?" He's from Romania, and came to the states in 1966. Kind of a wierd thing for him to have a son in law who knew what this thing was.
2 stroke, 2 cylinder. Body made of a plastic/Resin/Cardboard. Per my father in law, they were shipped on coal burning trains. Ashes and Cinders would land on teh cars as they were being shipped, burning small holes in the bodies. As he is fond of saying "Fine German Engineering...."0 -
Opels are german,none of there models in the 50s and 60s resembled vauxhall,if anything most of the 50s and 60s Vauhalls resembled GM vehicles.I had a 1955 Vauxhall that looked very similiar to a early 50s Chevy.Trabants are not German but Russian or Eastern block.Evil if you had a Triumph Herald engine with twin carbs it was a Triumph Vitesse the sporty version of the Herald. 0 -
I'd love to have a Vauxhall Corsa VXR Turbo.
That's the problem with American cars....too blahhhhhh.
European cars scream "Yeah, baby, yeah".......ok maybe Austin Powers quoted that.[:p]0 -
Did Sears sell them?? I know sears sold some sort of car. 0 -
Why just pick on Lucas electrics which they never got right. They just didn't like rain and dampness.
Smith gauges have been left out. They self destructed.
I wonder if English cars have improved reliability wise.
I remember following a fleet of Isettas w/350cc BMW single cylinder
engines at 55 mph. Actually they were before their time. There is a similar sized car buzzing around in Germany.
There are also Trabants being kept alive there now.0 -
I have had a lot of british cars as I lived from the UK untill 1990.never had any problems with them,drove them all over Europe with very few breakdowns.that Vauxhall shown is a Cresta I believe.They made two the same shape ,the Cresta and the Velox.Cresta was the more expensive of the two.I can remember a consumer group road testing.They drove up and down the M1 with a relay of drivers untill it had 100.000 miles on the clock.No breakdowns at all.Incidently it had a 3.3 litre 6 cylinder engine,most of them had manual gearboxes and wasnt particularly economical. 0 -
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Opels are german... Made better with a little American ingenuity....0 -
We still have the Harold motor in our warehouse.It has been there for 26 years that I know of.The carbs are gone.I was moving the crate one day and put a fork thru the side removing both carbs.We once had a Simca with a baby Ford Flathead V8 60 engine.We also have a high performance cyl head and dual carb setup for a Opel Kadett 1100 engine.I once worked on a 1959 English Ford Thames that had a flathead 100E engine that had a OHV conversion that looked like a Crager OHV setup made for American made Ford 4 cylinder flatheads.
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