Vauxhall Velox Test Drive
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- Опубліковано 29 сер 2024
- Hi and welcome to Hardy Classics!
Today we are taking this 1955 Vauxhall Velox out for a test drive, this car is stunning. It is in absolutely immaculate inside, outside, underneath and within the engine bay.
As you can see by the video it drives perfectly and the only thing to fault is the weather! But these cars are meant to be driven.
I was the one who restored that Velox with a mate of mine who owned it, Alan Fraser from Altrincham. The car he'd owned for many years i sourced for him being involved with the Cresta Club at the time. Only welding i had to do was bottom rear corner of a rear door plus inside both rear arches cutting out and welding in correctly. We fitted brand new old stock front wings and front panels. If you look at the engine sump you will see a blob of weld were i had welded up due to something puncturing it.The guy who painted it 20 years ago took his own life shortly after he'd done it and we only just managed get the car back out his workshop and was a great job and still as is to this day. All chrome we done new old stock and some rechromed. Only interior we did was new door cards made and the mileage is 100% Correct. Fantastic car.
Thanks so much for watching... like all the cars I sell, I'd be happy to keep them when they're in as good condition as the Vauxhall is! It's so rare to find a car that has had this much work carried out
Beautiful piece of machinery.
I had one as a company car way back: it was only two years old when the tin worm really attacked it. Vauxhall ran well but during the Fifties, built in rust as an extra.
This one is nice in spite of white walls which I do not recall on many cars at the time.
Vauxhall was owned by General Motors, a “Yank” corporation. A couple of models, late Crestas and Victors, looked ver Chevrolet in design.
That's brave, to take such a lovely Vauxhall into the vagaries of our inclement weather!
So quiet! The final run of this model in the late fifties was stunning.
These are such rare and beautiful examples of pure British cars, inspired by American styling. Thanks!
Hello my velox is from 1954 the car is in use every day i love it is better that all new cars roberto from austria
When I was four years old, (1956), our stylish neighbour up the road, Mrs. Price had one. All things Americana were essential to brighten up dowdy stick - in - the mud Britain after the war! Lesley Price invited Heidi, my mother to go in her car like this - but a stunning BLACK one - to look at the Christmas display in fancy London store, Harrods. While Lesley's daughter Cheryl and myself could visit Father Christmas in store! So, off we went in this quiet, relaxed lovely Vauxhall! One of THE favourite memories of my life, to this day! That car made a lasting impact on me! So, we drove leisurely into London, and PARKED outside Harrods, at the back. YES parkedin London! (Because there were so few cars, as many had been melted down to make bullets in the war!) I bumped into Mrs. Price again in the post office in Croydon, a few years ago (still stylish in her bobbed 1950's American hairstyle, only her hair was now white, instead of black. We had a conversation about how we were (like everyone else) against any ideas of privatising the Post Office. But I didn't introduce myself - to not be too gushing - and thought I would tell her how our families had been friends another time when I would probably see her again in the Post Office . But I never did! However I did see an identical car like she had, along the road from where I live, and spoke to the owner! I couldn't persuade him to take me for a spin in it - because he said it didn't have an M.O.T. But seeing these videos is almost as good as BEING in the cars! This has my day!
Our neighbours bought one about the same year, which makes us almost the same age except I was in Auckland, NZ
@peterswatton7400 hello Peter Swatton! I'm knocking on 72 - how about YOU? (!)
These engines were not powerful - like some other makes, in those times, without so much as motorways yet!
BUT they re-worked the engines for the next generstion Vauxhalls!
Love that ,just imaginge driving that around Cornwall ,with Nancy Whiskeys Frieght train coming form the wireless ,heaven .
What a beauty! Who remembers the Matchbox one in those colours? I had whitewall crossply tyres on a '56 Fairlane. As you say,look great but the 'tramlining' was interesting!
A nice car. My dad had one from 1953.
My father had two of these both Velox's of the same year . His first one was in 65 until 1972
I love the shape of the Velox and the Cresta, I think they were the best looking and best designed cars Britain ever made. The engine was very quiet in the Velox even when going up hills. I am from Oz (Aussie) and often wonder does it ever stop raining in England......
But one thing that many forget nowadays, is that undercoating was often an option, and more than a few dealers offered rust-proofing, but most people, in this country at least, were too cheap to order it, as it didn't make the car prettier or faster, and in the prosperous post-war years, many people figured that they would soon have another car in a few years anyway.
Heremin New Zealand, my dad owned a 1954 Velox. Our neighbor had a 1956 velox and people over the had a 1951 Lip Velox. This was NZ in 1972. Lol
I had a Black 1957 Cresta E model in 1976 when I was 21 years old, had the steel sun visor, cost me £60, fitted the vx4/90 4 speed gearbox floor change, as a banger racing man suggested😮 had a problem getting a rear axle bearing, so fitted a PA back axle, & had to have 2 spare wheels because of the stud patterns, then a 327 Chevy engine & box into it, along with the Jag irs axle, which did get done, but never ran. the car really needed a lot of bodywork doing, but this was before the Mig welder was around, so only gas welding or brazing was possible, hence the non completion of work. 😢
Too bad, with that 327, it would have been sensational.
Yes... not a fan of white wall tyres on British marques..
Also in this case, why gild the lily...?
Stunning vehicle.
Seems to have some Cresta mods.
Stunning....how come its so well preserved....has it been somewhere hot.
Not exactly unless you classify the South of England as hot climate which us Geordies do to be fair…😂however the previous owner never took it out in the rain
New restoration.
I remember these as cheap second hand cars in the 60s. All were riddled with corrosion, as were all Vauxhalls of the period. Normally you could see the road through the rotted out floors. Death traps!
My father in law used to sell them new , and he said after a year they were coming back rotten. When he saw this particular car he said he sold brand new ones in the show room in worse condition😂 just goes to show the quality of restoration I guess😂
@AndrewHardyClassics RUST REPUTATION? That's why in the late 60's / 70', Vauxhall started using rubber underseal paint, to try to do something about RUST. One of the first firms to do so.
These are very nice cars, obviously GM cars, when GM cars were among the best.
Thanks for thar video Andrew, why don't you flog your modernyoke and drive that baby instead, marvelous
Got my license on one of these lol
Masha Allah very nice and beautiful car
Is it for sale?
Yes it is check out our website www.hardyclassics.co.uk/classic-cars-for-sale-1/1955-Vauxhall-Velox
The wipers are vacuum operated! Ye gods.
If you have the optional combination pump, which was both a fuel pump and a vacuum pump, they worked fine.
They were truly awful. In heavy rain you often had to drop a gear to keep the revs up. By the '56 (or '57) model year the wipers had gone electric and those awful window sliders were also updated to winders. My father bought one new and all my preliminary driving lessons were taken in that car, which he held on to for many years.
No, not vacum operated. Much more sophisticated. Driven off the camshaft so the faster you go the faster they go.