FACEL VEGA II 2 1962 - Test Drive in top gear | 6.3L Chrysler Typhoon V8 engine sound | SCC TV
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- Опубліковано 7 вер 2024
- Recently we came across this beautiful Facel Vega II 1962 at The Gallery in Brummen, The Netherlands. We took the car for a little spin! We love to hear your comments on our videos. Feel free to leave one!
The Facel Vega 'Facel II' was a French Grand Touring car produced by Facel between the years 1962 and 1964.
By 1962 the Paris-based Facel Vega company was facing bankruptcy. The Facel II (pronounced '2') was to be the company's last attempt to create a luxury GT car in the French tradition.
The Facel Vega company advertised the Facel II as "Le Coupé 4-places le plus rapide du Monde" ('The Fastest 4-seater Coupé in the World'). 'Sports Car Graphic' described it as a "luxurious brute". Bernard Cahier, a race-driver who tested the car in 1962, said of an early version (without the later limited-slip differential) that "the huge output of the Chrysler engine made it easy to spin wheels at light throttle pressure."
It was powered by an American 6.3 litre (383 cu.in.) Chrysler 'Typhoon' engine which produced 355 hp (265 kW) in automatic-gearbox form and 390 hp (291 kW) in manual. Using Chrysler's three-speed Torqueflite automatic gearbox, the 6.3-litre Facel II could reach over 135 mph (225 km/h). With a French Pont-a-Mousson four-speed manual gearbox the full-four-seater 6.3 litre Facel II could attain over 150 mph (247 km/h) and out-accelerate its two-seater rivals, the Aston Martin DB4, Ferrari 250 GT and 'gull-wing' Mercedes-Benz 300SL, to 60 mph (97 km/h) and all except the Ferrari to 100 mph (160 km/h). Dunlop disc brakes were fitted on all four wheels and Hydrosteer power steering, leather seats, electric windows and radio aerial all became standard during the production run, with Armstrong Selecta-Ride shock-absorbers adjustable from the dash while driving fitted to the right-hand-drive British models. The curvaceous wrap-round dash was in fact metal but meticulously painted to look like wood. Many of the controls were airplane inspired. The later manuals were fitted with the even more powerful 6.7 litre (413 cu.in.) Chrysler "RB" wedge engine and were faster still.
Like its predecessor, the Facel Vega HK500, the Facel II was heavier than its two-seater rivals, weighing 1,880 kilograms (4,100 lb) (37 cwt) 'dry' and almost two tons with four passengers and a full petrol tank. There may have been some question about its ride and rear suspension - it used suspension virtually unchanged from the previous HK500 - but certainly none about its speed or glamour.
As a student from Holland, studying in Grenoble in ‘79 we went with a group of 8 friends to Nice for a week, driving there in a ds and an Amazone.
We had lots fun of beach-time.
One day we went for the beach and parked at the boulevard there was this car, silver wirh a red interior.
I was completely stunned and told my friends to go ahead and I would catch up later.
I sat on a bench opposite the car for half an hour and looked at every detail.
Since then my love for cars emerged but I’ll never forget the combo friends, sun and beach and surely not Facel Vega.
Sounds like a pretty damn good day back in 79! 💪
@@SuperCarClassicsTV oh yes, for a young student I was very privileged to be able to live like that.
On a cold January morning in 1966 I was hitch hiking at the start of the Munich - Stuttgart autobahn, a Facel Vega 2 stopped for me. For the next hour I enjoyed the experience of traveling at a steady 130 MPH. I now own one of Stuttgart's finest products and even after all these years it is still the most glamorous car I have ever been in.
Incredible that car experiences can leave such everlasting memories! Thank you for sharing one! Ciao, Walter
Always been one of the most stylish cars ever built. Quite stunning. And what super condition for this specimen. Wonderful.
Oh my God! One of the most beautiful cars ever made!
Gorgeous vehicle. Breathtaking.
Superbe, elle à un petit côté Aston Martin, Rolls et Buick.
De la grande est belle Voiture Française.
Juste MagnifiQUE !
Respect
Extraordinaire oui;..... mais sûrement pas comparable à celles que vous citez
Le Style Daninos est unique !
@@hotchkiss4878
Au final, ont à pas besoin d'être comparé quand on est unique.
Très juste.
Nous avons perdu beaucoup de prestige dans le domaine automobile.
C'est regrettable quand on est face à de tel Bijou.
@@cerebroh1634 Vrai, nous avons hélas perdu beaucoup avec la disparition de nos marques de prestige
Oui, mais en mieux.
One of the most beautiful cars ever built. And a well made video
Thanks for the compliment! Kind regards, Walter
You did an excellent job, and thank you for dialing BACK the very nice music at the right spots so that we could hear the CAR doing the talking.
Cette automobile est une véritable œuvre d’art!
Jusqu’au moindre détail..
La combinaison du bleu et de ce splendide intérieur est magnifique et somptueux…
Quel tableau de bord!!
Ce faux bois est incroyable et les commandes de ventilation et de chauffage nous plongent dans l’univers aéronautique!!
À quand la renaissance de cette marque de prestige française?
Sublime!!!
Une gifle à la face de Rolls -Royce et Mercédès ...
@@felix25izen'exagerons pas!
Magnifique! Magnifique! Magnifique! Mythique et Culte! En français = RUTILLANTE. Chaleureux encouragements! Chaleureuses Félicitations! Merci!
One too many Ls TGN - but the gretaest1
@Jochen B Je suis français et je CONFIRME! J'ai découvert que ce merveilleux tableau de bord est en tôle peinte au Salon Rétromobile à Paris en Janvier ou Février 2019. Plus beau qu'un original en ronce de noyer !
The symmetry of the center console and center dash area is beyond candy to my eyes! Those old long throw toggle switches and levers! So beautiful. I am not sold on the looks of the rear exterior profile. But a very beautiful rare car. Thanks for the video!
The most beautiful car ever, it holds it own against anything else, hands down :-) great video showing of the beautiful design and the silent monster under the hood :-)
Thanks Simon, you're welcome! Ciao, Walter
Thank you for such an excellent video. What a gorgeous car, what a splendiid colour!
Truly, it brought me child hood memories. One of my relatives owned a Converible , here in Portugal. I loved ridding in the plush, soft-leather seat enjoying the wind, the leather smell....
In my view, the car was classier and better than the Mercedes 190. And was even superior to its replacement, the Mercedes 230 (not being offered yet at the time). There was also a smaller model, the FACELLIA.. Thanking you once again, Warm regards, Albert
Thank you, Albert. I am glad to have made you happy!
When these cars were new I fell in love with them, and to this day I still think they are the most beautiful car ever made.
Agreed.
Thank you for posting this. I owned an HK500, in the late '70's. The Facel II was the top of the line then. Wish we still had interesting and beautiful cars like Facel and Iso on the roads today, instead of a vast sea of gray SUV's.
When I was a young man, I saw one of these in the street and immediately fell in love with, especially with all that leather and the wooden dashboard. Very much later I had to learn that there were never wooden dashboards in Facel Vegas, only in wood design painted steel😭😭😭
Yes but the hand paint wood design need high skills to be perfect and cost MORE that real wood...
Beautiful car. The first time I saw it was in a photo of Ringo Starr behind the wheel.
Pauline Garcia Yes, I think he owned one indeed!
Proof that magic can be had when Europe and America meet.
La France et l’Amérique…
my primary school teacher had one of these; I still remember it fifty years later !!
You must have been to an expensive school!
@Constantin. OUI vous avez eu 1 enseignant très fortuné. Hélas, pour sa part, c"est dans cette voiture qu'Albert Camus , prix NOBEL de llittérature , a perdu la vie. C'était une 4 portes.
Great video of a piece of super rare exotica, great colour, I want it.
I've been loving Facel Vegas since I saw a HK500 in the streets in Normandy in 1971 (I was 6). Now I need one badly! Your video is simply cooool.
Facel cars have a short History. Jean Daninos created FACEL (Forges et Ateliers de Construction d'Eure et Loire) in the 1930s to manufacture aircraft parts. After the war, he notably built aluminum bodies-in-white and some complete Ford Comete or e.g. Simca Plein Ciel, Brentley MkVI,...
When he decided to produce HIS car, his brother popular writer Pierre Daninos suggested to add the name of ... "say a constellation" after Facel. Then... :-)
+Laurent Decker Great story Laurent, thanks for telling!
+SuperCarClassics - You're welcome.
Just a precision, to find this particular Bentley: "Bentley MkVI facel-metallon coupé"
Enjoy Facels!
Beautiful pictures! thank you!
Fascinating ! An automobile idol !
French style. Beautiful.
Great style...inside and out...an Amazing car
The classiest car ever!
A thing of beauty is a joy forever
Such a beautiful car , and i love the sound of that big Chrysler v8 engine :)
That's wonderful, the engine sounds glorious.
Apparently the car left them speechless...
in a word- gorgeous
I am amazed by the beauty of this automobile - which we classify in "Beautiful from yesteryear".
Today's models (regardless of the brand) have no stamp and nor any class.
I don't know the Facel models, but the ones I saw have a lot of class.
It's a bit because I'm an American, Canadian, Quebecer from Quebec City 😋
But I must admit that this french automobile is very beautiful.
I agree Clément, she's a pure beauty!
Merci cousin d'Amérique !!!
Quand je vois cette beauté, p....., il faut la refaire! Un bon moteur, puissant, fiable, quitte à utiliser un moteur hybride pour satisfaire les obligations écologiques, améliorer sa sécurité globale. Quant à l'esthétique globale, il n'y avait rien à jeter. Bien entendu, à remettre au goût du jour, tendances 21ème siècle.En l'état, sans la comparer à une Bugatti Atalante, ça reste peut-être ce que l'automobile française a conçu de plus beau...
Comment a-t-on pu laisser mourir une telle marque? Incroyable et incompréhensible...
Allez Mr Bernard Arnault, un petit effort...lancez-vous dans la voiture de luxe...
Le " libéralisme " giscardien, féru de rentabilité immédiate; et c'est bien pire maintenant !
very beauty !!! Dean Martin had such a car. Front lights same as mercedes
Arch Stanton : Non , Mercedes a purement & simplement copié FACEL et non l' inverse ! ( Mercedes Pagode par exemple )
Gil 75 c'est exactement ça...
La pagode lui ressemble étonnement
Magnifique !!
L’élégance Française, le luxe Parisien sur roue...
beautiful car
its because of cars like these that france is my second favourite car nation.... come back french super cars, the world needs you for beauty, colour, character. and something that the british and the germans simply don't. Emphasis on the beauty of travel in general
Adam Othman Hey, so glad you liked my video! Hopefully you'll find some more in all the videos I have made over the last couple of years. Thanks for your support! Stay tuned for a lot more exciting SCC-stuff in 2015. Regards from the Netherlands, Walter
SuperCarClassics - The world's most appealing classic car channel! good stuff to hear Walter. i love the videos you put out and they really allow someone to capture the experience of these glorious machine. keep doing what you're doing!
I certainly will. Next year I hope to make some more in-depth videos. Only still looking for the way to do it ;-).
SuperCarClassics - The world's most appealing classic car channel! glad to hear! cheers
@Adam Othman. J'adore les voitures qui affichent des compteurs de température et pression d'huile, etc à la manière d'1 cockpit d'avion. Aujourd'hui , on n'a plus rien à surveiller dans nos charrettes électroniques.
wonderful car 👌👌👍👍
What a car
Striking car, excellent photography!
Thanks, that's a very nice compliment! All the best! Walter
A feast for the eyes, superb photography and car!!!!!!!!! OOps, second time I am delighted! hahahaha
You cannot tell me enough how much you like my photography. Keeps me motivated to make more of them! So thanks a lot! Have a good weekend, Walter
Could quite easily have been a "BOND" car
Étrange que l'on vante encore cette voiture aussi belle que peu sûre.
BEAUTIFUL ETERNAL TIME STOPS
Great !
1962 was a very good year; 'twas the year I was born!
The 383 sounds great beautiful vehicle.
Now that's a mystery car indeed 😉
Welch ein Auto!
The french actor Jean Marais owned six Facel Vega !
Molto bella..!
Better than a Rolls
In 1961 I spent a holiday in Brighton on the south coast of England
and, several times, saw a Facel Vega very similar to this - and the same colour.
On one occasion I was walking along the promenade when it glided to rest just in
ahead of me and four people got out of it. Two days later, when I had returned
home, there was a report in my daily newspaper that a Facel Vega had crashed
on the outskirts of Brighton killing all four passengers.
That is both chilling and sad. Reminds me of a holiday in the USA where I had to give first aid to a severly wounded man after a car accident, and that I read on internet that he had survived when I got back to Holland...
Back in the very late 60s, I was front seat passenger in a gorgeous black Facel Vega 2 (with an equally gorgeous blond sitting on my lap) and three other friends in the back + my chum the driver. At (admittedly) fairly high speed on the Ascot Road in Berkshire, England, a private double decker Bingo Bus turning right into our road pulled out directly across our path. We swerved behind the bus slightly clipping its rear, mounted the wide pavement (sidewalk/footpath) which collapsed our front suspension, then travelling on down the pavement we hit a Mini (parked on the pavement would you believe!) which smashed into the adjacent brick wall and rebounded back into our Facel Vega, throwing the car into a lamp post and finally into the side of a bus shelter. Remarkably I was the only physically injured party with a very tiny shard of glass from the quaterlight imbedded in my forehead ( I can still feel the scar). But what REALLY hurt was the article of the accident which appeared days later in the local newspaper which told of a vehicle accident involving a bus and a... "Vauxhall Viva"!!!! That, along with the demise of a very beautiful and rare motorcar, still causes me to cringe... (True story)
@@MartinAHLoyd A well meant 'O my...' is very approriate here! What a story and glad that no one was very badly injured, certainly taking into account that Facels were notorious for their poor safety. I was expecting and hoping that the gorgeous blonde on your lap became to be your lawfull wife... What became of her 😄💪?
It's like having a dream about the most beautiful girl you've ever seen, and you're out on a date with a very certain positive conclusion...this car hits all the right notes, has all the visual and sensual delights, and wants you to take it all the way home.
French design, American power, what’s not to adore 🥰
bad roadholing !!!
@@denislesperance852 bad spelling 😁
Wonderfully elegant cars, such a shame that the little Facellia killed the company.
any videos of a manual 383 or 413 version? love the sound of these cars.
Hot80s Not till so far I guess. But maybe in a few weeks a video of a very rare Facel Vega Excellence will be there!
Hot80s I THOUGHT I WAS THE ONLY ONE THAT KNEW THAT. CHRYSLER POWER !!!
Nice!
I found one on a tiny little car lot
In 72 needed a engine . It was black with black interior
I remember the salesman telling me it had a Chrysler drive train
2500 it needed to be restored
The weight was 1660kg not 1880...: this is a relative lightweight in comparision with modern cars such category...
This car in the video, is a american market model (specific headlights), 355hp with automatic drive (single carburetor engine)
leneanderthalien Hey, so glad you liked my video! Hopefully you'll find some more in all
the videos I have made over the last couple of years. Thanks for your support! Regards from the
Netherlands, Walter
It's like French Mopar.
Beautiful, yes but Very Quiet....
Une Facel Vega hybride 400 cv pour 2020 SVP ?
même 300ch ou 250 suffirait… là on serait pas sur la sportivité, mais le luxe… c'est à ce niveau qu'il faudrait mettre les moyens...
Pour la France, pays du luxe, avoir une auto qui le représente, serait formidable et assez logique !!
Que nos vœux ce réalises :-)
Fabriqué en Algerie?
@@MarttiSuomivuori parce qu'il y a des voitures de luxe fabriquées en Algérie ?
Une hybride avec un petit V6 serait le top!
@@philippecordier5990 Même du temps où l'Algérie était française, je ne crois pas; et maintenant, encore moins; aucune voiture, en fait ...
What's the song
French car and starts with the letter F. You can call him (FV-II)... F-antomas.)))
Beautiful car... This electric blue with the creme upholstery, what an outstanding match! Can't help but wonder where all this French automobile know-how has gone through the years. Probably one answer: down the drain. So sad.
Renault, Peugeot, Citroën etc... but I guess you mean where the beautiful designs went? ;-). Ciao, Walter
I'm talking Facel Vega, Alpine, Hispano-Suiza, Delage, Delahaye... Great names, but all gone (as far automotive pedigree is concerned). France being the birthplace of the automobile industry, what an unfortunate twist of fate to see that these marvels are now long gone.
It would have been nice to have some commentary...
Coches muy bonitos pero poco reconocidos
Es verdad!
Is die net zo duur als die HK 500 Excellence, Nico ?
Tikkeltje duurder maar ;-).
Jammer genoeg niet in staat om mij al dat moois wat jij hebt te kunnen veroorloven.
En door mijn MS veroordeeld tot het rijden in automaten. (Saab 95 2.3 T; ook niet zo verkeerd trouwens)
Maar vind wel dat jij een super mooi bedrijf hebt, waar ik al mee bekend ben sinds jullie je nog ''Alfa Aaldering'' noemden. En blij dat jullie die crisis hebben overleefd.SuperCarClassics - Getting YOU into the Classics!
Hi Walter, ik zal het doorgeven aan Nico. Dank voor je complimenten en mooie woorden. Heel veel autoplezier gewenst. Vriendelijke groet, Walter (ja, inderdaad, ook Walter)
La France savait produire de très belles autos
The best Lincoln wasn't a Lincoln.
What happens when you put a NASCAR Superbird engine in it ?
Pas mal non ?
C'est français !
I drove one 12 feet backward, my dad kicked my ..... I was 14. I used to sit in it and just dream. Sold 5 years ago for $271,000 @ Pebble Beach auction
1cryinprofit Nice reply. Thanks man! Very special car indeed with a stunning dashboard... Regards! Walter
Beautiful car shame about the needless cheesy music
Apart from great cinematography and wonderful paintwork, we learn very little, and the 'engine sound' disappoints.
I was a big Fan of Aston Martin Lagonda until i saw the interieur of that car. The Lagonda2 was produced in 1976 and it s interieur even in a restaurated exemplar looks cheap, shabby and unsound. Lot of the " seventies High tec" in it, today it is impossible to fix. And then, look at this Facels Console and dashboard. it seems from undestroyable noblesse.
Franch Bentley
You are right: Jean Daninos, the creator from Facel Vega was a Bentley lover but he's dream was to made he's "hown Bentley" different and more sporty ...the nicests Facel Vega was the HK500 and the Facel 2 who use 2 different engines cubics this 6270cc 340HP (automatic or manual gearbox) and a 6769cc engine who produce 400HP (second only awailable with manual gearbox)
@@leneanderthalien Voisin is French Rolls
@@leneanderthalien only French luxry car is a Bugati
@@andrejveho today yes, but before WW2 and a bit after, they was very numerous...
Sadly from 2030 on all combustion cars including classics will be banned
from public streets in entire EU and Scandinavia :-( In Germany the
Green Peoples Party gave order to shorten fuel supply from 2025
on by reducing all conventional fuel stations to only one state operated central gas
station per city or county. Now they want to slow down all the gas station fuel
pumps from 20 litre per minute to 2 litre per minute...From 2027 on in
the EU certain car spare parts will be banned too....as exhaust systems,
turbo chargers and even some engine and gearbox oils...California and
New York will do the same from 2027 on.... So no investments should be
done in oil burning cars any longer....They even created a new kind of
crime here, called emissions and smoke crime :-(/
Give you 200 bucks.
Albert Camus's downfall.
You could have said something during the video. A comment would have been nice.
Would love, but I am not allowed to. In the future this probably will become reality, so please check the channel so once in a while ok? Until then, enjoy the layback no-comment videos... Ciao, Walter
Seems so "unFrench", but it was and is.
Take out the engine and transmission . replace with modern Corvette Engine an running gear plus suspension and steering
what a perfect car .ITS THE STYLE THAT,S IMPORTANT !!!
Sacrilege!
@@MrTolesi rubbish that Chrysler engine was thirsty , very, the new Vet Engine makes 450bhp, with a TransAxle
all alloy suspension. 30 mpg cruising, The car looks the same inside and out but benefits woth modern gear
unless of course you have a Fetish with 1950s engines etc , mmhh
Probably the only good looking vehicle ever to come out of France.
No, but yet close... 😉
*ANGRY DELAHAYE, SALMSON, AND CITROEN NOISES*
The engine sounds vulgar compared to the gorgeous body styling, not a very harmonious marriage !
This when France actually made some decent cars, unlike now with their
awful, unreliable, boring junk!
Could have been designed by Carl Barks for Uncle scrooge. No personality, no distictive look.
The Hyundai Getz is a far superior vehicle than this.. much nicer interior detailing for a start and the 1.3 litre 3 cylinder engine sounds so sweet.
Well-crafted troll comment right here.
Nice engine....rest is junk.
Quite frankly, yes. Design is great too though!
Wendell worth: In the idiot' s kingdom , Connards are ' K.I.N.G..! ' ( French expression )