@@kenbarlow5373 i am showing my age now but i bought one of the first Toyota's in the country and 6 months in the front chassis leg was rotted through, the Japanese had no concept of rust prevention
I would say it deserves to be worth £25,000/35,000 at auction. Unique and unrepeatable with quite possibly the lowest mileage in the world. However, it's appeal is quite limited as its design and innovation was not that unusual. Belongs in a museum.
I used to pass the SMT dealership in Aberdeen on the way to & from school from 1973 to 1979. I was amazed at the droop snoot Firenza! Then the Chevette & Cavalier when they appeared. Now I own a 1974 Viva HC 2 door with 19,480 miles from new. It had suffered from bad storage, but is now completely rust free & sporting a 4.6 Range Rover P38 engine & TVR bellhousing on a Sierra Cosworth t5 gearbox!
I remember the SMT Vauxhall dealer in my home town of Dundee, my grandfather bought all his brand new Vauxhall Vive HC from there.. every 2 years he would trade in his 1972 right up to 1978 he bought 3 of them.
The valve train would rattle for a while on first start on a morning. The oil pump high up, had a pickup tube in the sump. During overnight rest it would drain empty, and had to prime itself on mornings, before being able to lubricate the valve train. A mechanic friend of mine used to install a ball check-valve on the mouth of the pickup tube to keep the entire system filled. It solved the morning rattle. Trinidad & Tobago. West Indies.
I bought an L reg 1800 ex fire brigade car all white straight from the fire station via auction fantastic car solid as a tank no sign of rust very feisty as well, well built solid car, even when i sold it still no rust and none of my F D's were rusty either. I at present have a 1957 F type victor solid car no problems with rust yet my micra k11 is pretty rusty gets welded every year my mk 3 megane no sign of rust. I have never had a rusty Vauxhall or Ford come to that and iv'e had all the Victors and Cortina's and one HC viva.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂I remember my old fella having one of these, and it was one of the worst cars he ever owned...The thing broke down so often, it spent more time in the garage than being driven...And rust, it would go brown on a damp day! Awful car even by standards of those days...
No, because it’s not a ‘fashionable’ vintage car. It’s not a ‘desirable’ brand or model with a huge cult following. It’s just a vintage car that most people have never heard of. If it were used in a popular TV show by a lead character (like the Ford Cortina Mk.III GXL) then it would get a lot more attention, and then its value would go up.
@@timonsolus No, Accounting for inflation £100 in 1976 is now Pretty much a grand. so £1100 turns to 11k. there is no other example like it, and its half a century old. 30k Would be more reasonable.
You know your getting old when you see a Vauxhall Victor in a museum. Others I can think of: The Maxi, 1100, Orion, Viva and the Allegro at the bottom of a canal but never in a museum!
@@stevepersighetti3400 I had a moggie 1000. It was in a terrible state wheels off the lot in a mechanics backyard. He fixed it for me and I valet it and TCut it back...lovely job.
I had a '60 wagon here in the States in 1970 - 1971. Mine had so much rust my dad said it didn't have enough metal to make a razor blade, but that car taught me some great lessons in automotive diagnosis and repair.
As a little boy in the 1960's my father had a grey one. Column change gear stick and a bench front seat. Registration was 709 RAR..... loads of happy memories to the seaside in it.
It saddens me in a way, yes it's amazing to find a car such as this, no frills, just a normal car from the 70's in such original condition, but it never lived a life. But then I suppose if all those cars from that era were used and then scrapped, we'd have nothing left to reminisce over.
Had it been repainted? The white one was the one i remember. They came with a 3.3litre and fourspeed manual. Many had v8s fitted. That coke bottle hips shape still looks good today. Some shapes the designers got perfect. That white Victor was one of them. Looks great from any angle.
In the early 70's my dad drove our family of 5 to Italy in one of these, took almost 2 days to get to our village in the south, spent 4 weeks there and drove back, never broke down once.
I would say he is spot on with £15,000 to £20,000 which is what I thought before he said it. Its an FE and not the most sought after Victor model. Even a mint F Series is hard pushed to make that amount of money. Yes the mileage is incredible but why was it in such a state ie no bumpers on it and taped up light units. Maybe from the rust proofing (ziebart)?. I drove an FE 2300SL (My brothers) and boy did it move. So comfortable too. Glad to see it will be looked after.
It's production never ceased in the mid 1970's, I owned a VX490 on an 'S' plate, that was 1978. I'm surprised it has survived, most of these just started to rust away after about a year old.
FE Victor production ended in ‘76 - it was then re-badged as the VX series until that was phased out in ‘78. We had a ‘79 registered VX1800 estate - one of the last I believe.
I have owned my 1974 Ford Cortina Mk.3 for just over 47 years, (Bought it back in 1976 with just 250 miles on the clock from new an Ex Ford Motor Company Promotional Press Fleet Car) costing £1.575 after falling in love with it gleaming in the show room, when I was 12 years old, so I can understand the original owners passion for his Vauxhall Victor, so nice to see one is such great Factory correct condition, like my Cortina has also been kept over the years, very rare to find any car of that age like that, as with time so many classics get modified so finding original showroom condition cars, and with owners that have had them almost 50 years is rare,
There are surprisingly a few low mileage cars which often turn up at auctions. Two weeks ago a 2002 registered Mercedes CL500 with just 6,200k on the clock from new sold at Mathewsons for £22,250. It had been well stored and in showroom condition. At the other extreme a 1987 Ford RS500 with just 5,192k on the clock sold at Silverstone auctions last month for a mind blowing £590k!! 😲
Had one in 1988 a L REG , lovely to drive ,.soft black leather seats, British racing green colour, unfortunately I couldn't afford to tackle the rust when it failed it's M.O.T, these cars had so much character . Remember setting the points and adjusting the timing , they were a fun car if you liked a lazy ride. I had a z250 Scorpion motorbike for excitement I had a fiesta 1.1 after that and hated it.
Pretty sure the 1974 FE sold new for quite a bit more than a thousand quid. I did some research and Victors went past a thousand quid with some of the mid-spec 4-cylinder FD variants in 1968. And of course the Ventora was way over that.
I like old vauxhalls, had a few myself, mk1 cavalier sports hatch, mk2 cavalier Sri, mk1 astra and nova, never had any real problems with any of them, and they were all very second hand lol
I HAD THE ESTATE VERSION IN EARLY 70s, DRIVING THRU TOWN GEARSTICK CAME OFF IN MY HAND, HAD TO DRIVE HOME IN 1ST GEAR LOL, MY MATE WELDED THE STICK BACK ON SO IT WOULD NOT HAPPEN AGAIN, SLIGHT VIBRATION BUT IT WORKED
The Platinum Starfire (and rust coloured) 1976 FE2300 Victor Estate owned by my late Father had had more holes than metal. I remember driving the Victor and the gear lever came out of the floor when trying to change gear. Another fault was the viscous fan coupling failed after about 20,000 Miles. It replaced a 1972 conifer green Viva 1256HL, which was one of the best Vauxhall paint finshes of that time, it lasted well into its 5th year and appeared to be relatively unscathed. But from a performance standpoint was unremarkable! The only good thing I can remember about the Victor was that when the cam belt snapped it was a safe engine , meaning that the pistons did not hit the valves but failed safe. I was able to replace the belt, but had a swine of a jo getting the plastic timing belt cover back on, it was so warped and twisted. The Haynes Manual was useless, I think our Victor had been built using leftover spare parts as nothing on the car matched the Haynes manual descriptions! The general lack of quality control, poor design and poor delership service was legendary. One day I got into it and tried to put into reverse and lost all of the gears. On looking beneath the car I found a "locking" bolt had vibrated loose from the gear linkage. Luckily it was lying under the car so I was able to jack the car up and replace the offending bolt with a liberal quantity of loctite, which cured an issue that should never have been in the first place. The one we had was Ziebarted from new, and I often think that this helped hide rust until it had devoured the front inner and outer wings, the front bulkhead and sills. It had the structural integrity of a knackered colander! It was the worst car I ever drove, even more so than the Cavalier 1.7 Turbo Diesel,( I had two of these as company cars) my experience with Vauxhall Products, has deterred me from buying one ever since, the Rover 420 that replaced them was like driving a Rolls Royce after the Cavaliers. Which sounded like tractors and lacked safe acceleration when needed. The estimated value of this is car is purely due to its rarity, most of them have been crushed over the years for a good reason, they were rust buckets on wheels!
there was a maroon coloured Victor.... but all Vauxhall's quickly turned the same colour.... rust.... couldn't drive through puddles without getting your trousers wet, in a Vauxhall....(holes in the floor).... got a nice cool breeze in summer though....
We used to sell them back in the day, especially quite a few Victors and Viva's. Yet for me, they just did not have the style of the old American Cars of that Era. maybe that's why quite a few of the old Yank Tanks are still around, whilst those from Europe just rusted and died.
We had an estate version in the same colour - a lovely car. It was followed by 2 VX series estates. One of my all time favourite British cars! Not sure this one’s worth £15k though! Will it be available for ‘Drive Dads Car’? Always wanted to drive one!
I imagine the owner thought he would mothball it for a future sale in his old age. I remember friends and I talking about such a thing in the seventies. Sadly couldn’t afford it. So I don’t find this strange at all.
Only £15.000 to £20.000 you joking thought it would have been worth a lot more than that the car is immaculate and probably only one in world with that mileage on it
No big deal...a couple of years back a garage in ireland sold two of its ex customer demo cars....a 1971 morris minor with 22 miles on the clock ,never been owner registered or road registered....and a 1968 morris 1100 with 12 miles from new,never been owner registered or road registered.
Cars with ultra-low mileage are generally untenable propositions, except as curiosities. They might run, but they generally seem to need a complete teardown to replace dried out oil seals and brake components, for a start. An associate bought a 1 owner 1974 Honda Civic, from the legendary "1 lady owner". This was in the mid-to late '90s. It was. from memory an EB1, fitted with a Hondamatic. It failed its Warrant of Fitness immediately on perished tyres, brake hoses and ball-joint rubbers, etc, and even after all that was sorted, it was a leaky, (water into the car - oil, trans. and brake fluid out of the car), horrid old pig. CV boots lasted about a week of driving, along with steering rack components.Radiator and hoses - same deal within a month. It had been garaged all its life, and looked superb. It was actually quite rusty, upon further inspection, but, for a considerable time, I suspected that was down to shitty assembly practices by the NZ Motor Corporation who did the CKD thing. I was wrong, as I now believe their earliest foray into Honda assembly was in '78. He'd paid silly money to buy the thing, believing that it was an investment. It was a pile of shit, and I think it ended up being parted out. Sad but true.
Only 2 things wrong with this car, and I'm not being sarcastic here...... The fact it's a Vauxhall, any other maker - no problem, but in my 40 years of driving I've had one Vx, bought it when it was 7 months old, spent more time in the workshop than it did on the road....... maybe I was unlucky, but this put me off buying any other. Secondly, and don't ask me where this came from, the colour, I was always told green cars were unlucky(!!), don't ask me why, but as far as I can find out, going way back into the 60's, nobody in my family has ever had a green car
It's not as it came off the production line at all. That rust on the nearside of the roof only happened in storage the day after. I'm surprised it hasn't developed into terminal rot. They were awful cars. The Victor 101 was far superior.
I was around in the 70's and owning a Vauxhall Victor is not a win, trust me. Like most British cars of that era, it was a poorly-made, rusty bag of shite. 😂😂
I use to own one exact same colour , 2.3 cc and use to go like shit of a teflon shovel , the tacky interior and green colour was enough to make you vomit though , pvc seats , cardboard door trims and baby shit brown in colour .
Low mileage as they're such bloody awful cars. Guy probably drove it a few times, it was so awful he put it in his garage and threw the garage key away.
Vauxhall Victor was my 1st car. Passed my driving test in 1974.
its amazing it still exists, these would rust if you drank a hot cup of tea near them
Rustall.
I didn't realise they were Japanese.
@@kenbarlow5373 no no no ! the early Japanese cars Datsun etc were WAY worse 😆 most were rusty before they got off the ships 😬
@@brucefraser4778
Sadly true! Mechanically beautiful, but rot boxes before they hit the roads!
@@kenbarlow5373 i am showing my age now but i bought one of the first Toyota's in the country and 6 months in the front chassis leg was rotted through, the Japanese had no concept of rust prevention
I would say it deserves to be worth £25,000/35,000 at auction. Unique and unrepeatable with quite possibly the lowest mileage in the world. However, it's appeal is quite limited as its design and innovation was not that unusual. Belongs in a museum.
Definitely I think if it would be sold at COYS as a car in concours condition would sell for at least £45,000-£50,000
I used to pass the SMT dealership in Aberdeen on the way to & from school from 1973 to 1979. I was amazed at the droop snoot Firenza! Then the Chevette & Cavalier when they appeared. Now I own a 1974 Viva HC 2 door with 19,480 miles from new. It had suffered from bad storage, but is now completely rust free & sporting a 4.6 Range Rover P38 engine & TVR bellhousing on a Sierra Cosworth t5 gearbox!
Not gonna lie, while I love the HC I really would prefer to own the example you've got! That sounds superb!
SMT dealerships!I remember them too!
I remember the SMT Vauxhall dealer in my home town of Dundee, my grandfather bought all his brand new Vauxhall Vive HC from there.. every 2 years he would trade in his 1972 right up to 1978 he bought 3 of them.
Glad to hear you’ve kept it original 😄
I owned an FE VX4/90 great car a bit thirsty and cost me £12 to fill up the 15-gallon tank I had it for 3 years and part x it for a dolomite 1850HL
The valve train would rattle for a while on first start on a morning. The oil pump high up, had a pickup tube in the sump. During overnight rest it would drain empty, and had to prime itself on mornings, before being able to lubricate the valve train.
A mechanic friend of mine used to install a ball check-valve on the mouth of the pickup tube to keep the entire system filled. It solved the morning rattle.
Trinidad & Tobago.
West Indies.
Had one, never let me down.
My dad had the VX490 sporty version it was amazing to a 10 year old kid back then.
they were a good looking car for sure. Very American!
Nice one bud
Amazing cars like this can still be found in an untouched condition.
I remember this as my dads 1st car in 1978
amazing. i remember these when i was a boy.
I had one back in the late 70s. Front bench seat. Great car.
I bought an L reg 1800 ex fire brigade car all white straight from the fire station via auction fantastic car solid as a tank no sign of rust very feisty as well, well built solid car, even when i sold it still no rust and none of my F D's were rusty either. I at present have a 1957 F type victor solid car no problems with rust yet my micra k11 is pretty rusty gets welded every year my mk 3 megane no sign of rust. I have never had a rusty Vauxhall or Ford come to that and iv'e had all the Victors and Cortina's and one HC viva.
Amazing barn find, it’s in the era when Vauxhall made fantastic, reliable, and easy to work on cars back in the day..
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂I remember my old fella having one of these, and it was one of the worst cars he ever owned...The thing broke down so often, it spent more time in the garage than being driven...And rust, it would go brown on a damp day! Awful car even by standards of those days...
Dad had one. It was a lovely car. Great memories.
I had three, two saloons and an estate, great old bangers
Saloon was elegant, estate even more so.
That's worth alot more then 20K!
Cough up then 😂
No, because it’s not a ‘fashionable’ vintage car. It’s not a ‘desirable’ brand or model with a huge cult following. It’s just a vintage car that most people have never heard of.
If it were used in a popular TV show by a lead character (like the Ford Cortina Mk.III GXL) then it would get a lot more attention, and then its value would go up.
@@timonsolus No, Accounting for inflation £100 in 1976 is now Pretty much a grand.
so £1100 turns to 11k. there is no other example like it, and its half a century old. 30k Would be more reasonable.
@@timonsolus
Most people have never heard of it if they're in their 20s.
Most others HAVE.
It is valuable due to its time warp status.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 buy it then🙄
My dad had the first generation of the Vauxhall Victor, which he bought in 1959, when he returned from the UK. He had the car for 11 yrs.
Richard Usher reminds me of Tony hart the artist in the BBC program "Take Hart" shown in the 60s 70s a blast from the past....
A very elegant car. I owned one very briefly in 1976. Bench seats. Drive around a corner and your bum slides across to the passenger seat.
Seat belts on... or were they still optional at this point in these?!
Mind you, my mums G reg Minor Traveller had Kangol static belts fitted.
Its worth a lot more than that!
Amazing it actually was able to do that many without falling apart
The only thing i remember about this 70s car is that front grill, timeless.
You know your getting old when you see a Vauxhall Victor in a museum. Others I can think of: The Maxi, 1100, Orion, Viva and the Allegro at the bottom of a canal but never in a museum!
Learnt to drive an an Viva HB and had a Viva HA as my £60 first car.
@@stevepersighetti3400 I had a moggie 1000. It was in a terrible state wheels off the lot in a mechanics backyard. He fixed it for me and I valet it and TCut it back...lovely job.
To be fair if they were at the bottom of a canal those cars would dissolve faster than Alka Seltzer
My mate's Dad had a white one. He was absolutely delighted when a tree fell on it and wrote it off in the great storm of 1987 😁
New it was a lovely car to sit in as a passenger with the recessed dials and the metallic green bodywork early seventies!!
AMAZING, had one in 86 ,drove through some fog near whitby and she rusted/fell apart on me 😮
Everything was brown or green in the seventies. Brown and green, manufacturers were obsessed with the colours.
I had a 1960 Vauxhall Victor here in Canada. I called it" Victor Vegetable".
I had a '60 wagon here in the States in 1970 - 1971. Mine had so much rust my dad said it didn't have enough metal to make a razor blade, but that car taught me some great lessons in automotive diagnosis and repair.
As a little boy in the 1960's my father had a grey one. Column change gear stick and a bench front seat. Registration was 709 RAR..... loads of happy memories to the seaside in it.
Always had a soft spot for the FE
It saddens me in a way, yes it's amazing to find a car such as this, no frills, just a normal car from the 70's in such original condition, but it never lived a life. But then I suppose if all those cars from that era were used and then scrapped, we'd have nothing left to reminisce over.
Had it been repainted? The white one was the one i remember. They came with a 3.3litre and fourspeed manual. Many had v8s fitted. That coke bottle hips shape still looks good today. Some shapes the designers got perfect. That white Victor was one of them. Looks great from any angle.
I had one in 1974 .... Great motor . 👍🏴
My dad had a gold estate one of these. They were good cars and very powerful too.
In the early 70's my dad drove our family of 5 to Italy in one of these, took almost 2 days to get to our village in the south, spent 4 weeks there and drove back, never broke down once.
I would say he is spot on with £15,000 to £20,000 which is what I thought before he said it. Its an FE and not the most sought after Victor model. Even a mint F Series is hard pushed to make that amount of money. Yes the mileage is incredible but why was it in such a state ie no bumpers on it and taped up light units. Maybe from the rust proofing (ziebart)?. I drove an FE 2300SL (My brothers) and boy did it move. So comfortable too. Glad to see it will be looked after.
I much prefer the previous model, great find though.
I prefer the Victor 101 - column change and a front bench seat.
It's production never ceased in the mid 1970's, I owned a VX490 on an 'S' plate, that was 1978. I'm surprised it has survived, most of these just started to rust away after about a year old.
FE Victor production ended in ‘76 - it was then re-badged as the VX series until that was phased out in ‘78. We had a ‘79 registered VX1800 estate - one of the last I believe.
I had a 2 tone victor fb as my first car loved it.
He would like to buy it for 20000 but in auction it would be more like 65000 up to 80000
I have owned my 1974 Ford Cortina Mk.3 for just over 47 years, (Bought it back in 1976 with just 250 miles on the clock from new an Ex Ford Motor Company Promotional Press Fleet Car) costing £1.575 after falling in love with it gleaming in the show room, when I was 12 years old, so I can understand the original owners passion for his Vauxhall Victor, so nice to see one is such great Factory correct condition, like my Cortina has also been kept over the years, very rare to find any car of that age like that, as with time so many classics get modified so finding original showroom condition cars, and with owners that have had them almost 50 years is rare,
I’m not surprised. They seem to love lay-byes.
Everybody says They were rusty but show me a car that didnt back then...
There are surprisingly a few low mileage cars which often turn up at auctions. Two weeks ago a 2002 registered Mercedes CL500 with just 6,200k on the clock from new sold at Mathewsons for £22,250. It had been well stored and in showroom condition. At the other extreme a 1987 Ford RS500 with just 5,192k on the clock sold at Silverstone auctions last month for a mind blowing £590k!! 😲
That ford,was the princess diana owned one?
@@MrTibbs12 No her car was a 1985 RS Turbo which sold for £722,500.
Had one in 1988 a L REG , lovely to drive ,.soft black leather seats, British racing green colour, unfortunately I couldn't afford to tackle the rust when it failed it's M.O.T, these cars had so much character .
Remember setting the points and adjusting the timing , they were a fun car if you liked a lazy ride.
I had a z250 Scorpion motorbike for excitement
I had a fiesta 1.1 after that and hated it.
I would hate to own that car, because I would want to drive it but don't want to add any miles to it
Pretty sure the 1974 FE sold new for quite a bit more than a thousand quid. I did some research and Victors went past a thousand quid with some of the mid-spec 4-cylinder FD variants in 1968. And of course the Ventora was way over that.
The Brits do love their cars
I like old vauxhalls, had a few myself, mk1 cavalier sports hatch, mk2 cavalier Sri, mk1 astra and nova, never had any real problems with any of them, and they were all very second hand lol
I HAD THE ESTATE VERSION IN EARLY 70s, DRIVING THRU TOWN GEARSTICK CAME OFF IN MY HAND, HAD TO DRIVE HOME IN 1ST GEAR LOL, MY MATE WELDED THE STICK BACK ON SO IT WOULD NOT HAPPEN AGAIN, SLIGHT VIBRATION BUT IT WORKED
The Platinum Starfire (and rust coloured) 1976 FE2300 Victor Estate owned by my late Father had had more holes than metal. I remember driving the Victor and the gear lever came out of the floor when trying to change gear. Another fault was the viscous fan coupling failed after about 20,000 Miles.
It replaced a 1972 conifer green Viva 1256HL, which was one of the best Vauxhall paint finshes of that time, it lasted well into its 5th year and appeared to be relatively unscathed. But from a performance standpoint was unremarkable!
The only good thing I can remember about the Victor was that when the cam belt snapped it was a safe engine , meaning that the pistons did not hit the valves but failed safe. I was able to replace the belt, but had a swine of a jo getting the plastic timing belt cover back on, it was so warped and twisted. The Haynes Manual was useless, I think our Victor had been built using leftover spare parts as nothing on the car matched the Haynes manual descriptions!
The general lack of quality control, poor design and poor delership service was legendary.
One day I got into it and tried to put into reverse and lost all of the gears. On looking beneath the car I found a "locking" bolt had vibrated loose from the gear linkage. Luckily it was lying under the car so I was able to jack the car up and replace the offending bolt with a liberal quantity of loctite, which cured an issue that should never have been in the first place.
The one we had was Ziebarted from new, and I often think that this helped hide rust until it had devoured the front inner and outer wings, the front bulkhead and sills. It had the structural integrity of a knackered colander!
It was the worst car I ever drove, even more so than the Cavalier 1.7 Turbo Diesel,( I had two of these as company cars) my experience with Vauxhall Products, has deterred me from buying one ever since, the Rover 420 that replaced them was like driving a Rolls Royce after the Cavaliers. Which sounded like tractors and lacked safe acceleration when needed.
The estimated value of this is car is purely due to its rarity, most of them have been crushed over the years for a good reason, they were rust buckets on wheels!
there was a maroon coloured Victor....
but all Vauxhall's quickly turned the same colour....
rust....
couldn't drive through puddles without getting your trousers wet, in a Vauxhall....(holes in the floor)....
got a nice cool breeze in summer though....
unless bought for an investment, why buy a car, not use it, a waste otherwise, cars are meant to used, driven and loved
My grandfather had one of these we used to go to the isle of white in it
We used to sell them back in the day, especially quite a few Victors and Viva's. Yet for me,
they just did not have the style of the old American Cars of that Era. maybe that's why quite
a few of the old Yank Tanks are still around, whilst those from Europe just rusted and died.
For a dealer that's been in the game for 60 years, he's only around £15+ Grand off with his estimate.
Those seats in the summer would cause 3rd degree burns.
Same age as me but it’s certainly aged better 😂
Loving the American styling cues that were in vogue at the time.
We had an estate version in the same colour - a lovely car. It was followed by 2 VX series estates. One of my all time favourite British cars! Not sure this one’s worth £15k though! Will it be available for ‘Drive Dads Car’? Always wanted to drive one!
First car i drove when learning
I imagine the owner thought he would mothball it for a future sale in his old age. I remember friends and I talking about such a thing in the seventies. Sadly couldn’t afford it. So I don’t find this strange at all.
dealer says" no call for them today"lol
Only £15.000 to £20.000 you joking thought it would have been worth a lot more than that the car is immaculate and probably only one in world with that mileage on it
Nice very rare with very low miles
Bet the original owner's name was VICTOR 🧐🤔💪🇬🇧💯🎬✌️👍
15k he forgot to taking into consideration inflation
£15-20k? Has that guy looked at the price of second hand cars recently? 😂👍
No big deal...a couple of years back a garage in ireland sold two of its ex customer demo cars....a 1971 morris minor with 22 miles on the clock ,never been owner registered or road registered....and a 1968 morris 1100 with 12 miles from new,never been owner registered or road registered.
Can only put a price on what another is willing to pay.
Cars with ultra-low mileage are generally untenable propositions, except as curiosities.
They might run, but they generally seem to need a complete teardown to replace dried out oil seals and brake components, for a start.
An associate bought a 1 owner 1974 Honda Civic, from the legendary "1 lady owner". This was in the mid-to late '90s. It was. from memory an EB1, fitted with a Hondamatic.
It failed its Warrant of Fitness immediately on perished tyres, brake hoses and ball-joint rubbers, etc, and even after all that was sorted, it was a leaky, (water into the car - oil, trans. and brake fluid out of the car), horrid old pig.
CV boots lasted about a week of driving, along with steering rack components.Radiator and hoses - same deal within a month.
It had been garaged all its life, and looked superb.
It was actually quite rusty, upon further inspection, but, for a considerable time, I suspected that was down to shitty assembly practices by the NZ Motor Corporation who did the CKD thing. I was wrong, as I now believe their earliest foray into Honda assembly was in '78.
He'd paid silly money to buy the thing, believing that it was an investment.
It was a pile of shit, and I think it ended up being parted out.
Sad but true.
Less than £20K.. a bargain - I priced it at £60k !
One hundred miles is pretty good for a Vauxhall!
My grandad had a zephyr
Only 2 things wrong with this car, and I'm not being sarcastic here...... The fact it's a Vauxhall, any other maker - no problem, but in my 40 years of driving I've had one Vx, bought it when it was 7 months old, spent more time in the workshop than it did on the road....... maybe I was unlucky, but this put me off buying any other. Secondly, and don't ask me where this came from, the colour, I was always told green cars were unlucky(!!), don't ask me why, but as far as I can find out, going way back into the 60's, nobody in my family has ever had a green car
That car dealer looks just like a car dealer from when this car was built.
And just think a brand new Kia today is somewhere in the range of 15, to 20 thousand pounds....
Not a bad investment at all...
Welp.
They came with a hole in the boot.
She will make £20K all day long 👍
The hot girl in the white one wow.
Everything would be jammed.
Is that Clive dunn,s brother sitting in the car?
It's not as it came off the production line at all. That rust on the nearside of the roof only happened in storage the day after. I'm surprised it hasn't developed into terminal rot. They were awful cars. The Victor 101 was far superior.
I bet it still won't start on a cold morning.
Because?
My first car was a then-new 1969 Vauxhall Viva (sold by GM in Canada). It was dreadful.
Imagine buying a new car back in the seventies and never driving it anywhere. ..
Totally bonkers . ....I'd rather have a mk111 Ford Corrina.....
0:39 they don't make them like that anymore,
Did someone roll back the mileage gauge ? It was a terrible car 😊
No they didn't and no it wasn't '😊'
tony Hart 😂
Thats what i thought ! where s morph ? he he xx
roger roger whats your vector victor
Probably broke down on the delivery drive.
I was around in the 70's and owning a Vauxhall Victor is not a win, trust me. Like most British cars of that era, it was a poorly-made, rusty bag of shite. 😂😂
think the person giving the offer of 15k was either drunk and wanted the car, Or they didnt go to a professional.
£20k? 😂😂😂. My 1973 RX3 sold for £85k.
100,086 miles more like
I use to own one exact same colour , 2.3 cc and use to go like shit of a teflon shovel , the tacky interior and green colour was enough to make you vomit though , pvc seats , cardboard door trims and baby shit brown in colour .
Low mileage as they're such bloody awful cars. Guy probably drove it a few times, it was so awful he put it in his garage and threw the garage key away.
not unusual to find vauxhalls with low milage,they were so unreliable they spent most of their time on the garadge floor.
Vauxhall beat's em all
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