I hav a 1961 Velox. Bought mine 12 months ago. Had one when I was in my 20s I.m now in my 80s and had to have another be for time runs out. I love driving this car.

My favourite car of all time, have always regretted not buying one when I had the chance and could afford it. This one looks superb.

@nygelmiller5293

2 жыл бұрын

To Rick Shaw from Nygel Miller. "Favourite car of all time?"congratulate yourself on having good taste!

@Roger.Coleman1949

2 жыл бұрын

Understand your feelings Rick , I've always loved them too , my best mate's dad had a ' 58 early model with the flat fronted bonnet, massive chrome ' VAUXHALL ' lettering and translucent ' mascot ' , registered VJJ 118 .Just such a stylish elegant saloon that all succeeding models never matched, it was so obvious to see why they were to become so desirable today .

My Favourite British car. When cars were really cars, simple, proper comforatable seats..love that one..👍👍

Lovely cars I have a 1962 Cresta with a 3.3 pc engine it goes well had it 7 years love it 👍

The most beautiful car ever made.

fabulous car! i love the entire cresta range from the E through to the PC

@nygelmiller5293

2 жыл бұрын

To Simon Prodham I do adore these, but love the E series even more!

When I was a 12 year old in Fiji , this model used to be used as fleet Taxis . We visited our uncle in Yalalevu , Ba , Fiji where his neighbour used to own about six of them. I love to share videos of these Vauxhalls which remind me of my childhood. Thank you sir !

such a beautiful car a real head turner and all the better for not being messed about with

How on earth did it last so long ? A real class motor in it,s day and now it is still a class act .

my DAD had a Velox loved it used to sit up front and and watch him drive his colour was Rose Glow lol or pink to you or me it rotted away

I always loved the Cresta with the indicators on the fins. They were rot boxes. How an earth has this example survived? A credit to the owner/owners.

@kar2ouche

2 жыл бұрын

Yep they were "rot boxes". The indicators on the Fins were the best versions. They changed them in 1961. I much preferred the 1960 ones. I bought one in 1979 (it was a 1960 model). With electric overdrive on 2nd and 3rd gear. I was used to "looks" as I was driving an "old" car. But on one journey a Merc passed me and the occupants looked at my Cresta with disdain, as if to say "why is this old car on the road?"" My wife noticed this too. This was unusual, usually people admired the car. These two did not. Even though I had my 93 year old wife's Grandmother in the car, both my wife and I looked at each other and thought this Merc driver is a knob. I clicked it out of 3rd gear overdrive and put my foot down on the 2.6 ltr straight 6 engine. Got right behind him and flashed my headlights (at about 80 mph). The driver was visibly shaken and took a double take in is mirror, then put his foot down and left two plumes of black smoke and left me behind. I could not care less. I had made a point. Do not sneer PA Cresta's! External bodywork was pristine. Underneath? You could see a light shinning through the paper thin floor. But damn, I loved this car and still have the steering wheel and number plates in the loft. I sold the rest of of it as parts, plus all the new parts I had bought, plus all the Chrome that I had re-chromed, all before I realised I could not afford to have the whole floor replaced! This was back in about 1983 ish. Including the original 2.6 ltr engine to a guy who turned up to collect it in a Citroen 2CV!!! WTF? Three of managed to get this straight 6 heavy engine (which was in really great shape) into the back a 2CV. Just what was he going to do with it wtf?

@davidtaylor2131

2 жыл бұрын

Probably the earth was still to the positive terminal and not the negative. It took A while to realise steel (tin) rusted faster on +

@flipper2392

Жыл бұрын

@@kar2ouche I thought, and hoped this was going to turn into a "Beep Beep" by The Playmates story. If you don't remember, Google it.

@philtucker1224

10 ай бұрын

No it certainly hasn’t “survived “ as you may be imagining! (These restored beauties are the result of collecting various good parts from tens and sometimes hundreds of discovered parts cars, new old stock parts, and brand new heritage metal panels identical to the originals). It a labour of love that can often takes several years in the planning. Basically a new car. Utterly gorgeous 🙏❤️

We got a 1960 Cresta in around October 1959, replacing a 1956 Velox. The full price was just over £1,000, although as Dad was going abroad on government duty, he got it purchase tax free for just over £700, I think I still have the receipt as Dad kept everything. It was battered on the roads of Pakistan. Sometimes we would get out and walk where the hump worn in the middle of the unsurfaced road was too high. He would drive with 2 wheels on the hump and 2 on the road. I'm talking about the main road to the Khyber Pass and Afghanistan here. It had 3 gears on the steering column and was 2 tone black and grey. XGX 353 was the registration number and PA 4468 on Pakistan. Although it was undersealed, rust killed it in the end, despite Dad's best efforts to fill the holes with fibre glass.

A real head-turner today amidst the plethora of jelly mould euro cars on our roads. This one looks a beauty, inside and out.

I can smell the Brylcreem.

@nygelmiller5293

2 жыл бұрын

To Peter Mc.Guire. I can SEE the ladies beehive hairdos!

Serious style this PA Cresta

My favourite car of the era. Very futuristic with a touch of American style. Much better’s looking than the rivals at the time.

These Vauxhalls were notorious for rotting everywhere you can think of which makes me believe this survivor is probably a South African import. They don't come any cleaner than this example. These, together with Mk2 Zephyrs and Zodiacs are loved by the rock and roll fraternity and no doubt will show a lot of interest and command a good price.

My uncle had one in 1960 when he showed up at our house the neighbours thought we had a rich relative

Only Vauxhall I fancied as a kid.. rusted so fast though… best looker of era.

@davidtaylor2131

2 жыл бұрын

Not sure if they were still positive earth which accelerated the rust process.

How beautiful runs so smooth truly wonderful..yes please 👍

@nygelmiller5293

2 жыл бұрын

To Bigsquatch. Also, did you notice how precisely the doors and booths shut? Like a NEW car! No dropped hinges! Must really be low mileage. This is surely the best one left in the world!

According to another KZread channel, there were only 29 of these left as at 2019. Quite a stunning car which looks all the better for being unmodified and it would not surprise me if this is in great demand at the auction and fetches more than the suggested price range.

@weaton25

2 жыл бұрын

As for the unmodified not quite it should not have duel exhaust that came in with the 1965 when the engine size went up to 3.3ltr

@colinmiller7671

2 жыл бұрын

@@yes2truth Quite right... I had one of those in1972, same colour same condition bought it for £45. It had an overdrive on the gearbox which worked and returned 28 mpg around town. Not only has this car got the later engine but the wheel trims are wrong for the 2.2. They used to wallow around corners and quite a few of them had twin radio aerials put on top of the back wings, you always used to see them around fair grounds, the old teddy boys used to like them. So so smooth and quiet, lovely car to own and drive . Yes the 1960 2.2 was the best looking cresta of the lot, and I have had them all in my day even the viscount.

Had two of them, a 1959 ,with the three window rear ,and a 1961 ,my first cars loved them the bench seats .,

That's lovely so clean 👌

Beautiful car, beautiful color and good noise! From France!

I bought a 1960 one in 1978/9. Body was pristine and jet back. I drove it for a few years. Then sadly it failed its MOT as the underneath had rusted away. It needed a whole new floor. Damn it. I loved that car. 3 on a tree, 2.3 litre, electric overdrive on 2nd and 3rd from a switch near the curved windscreen. And the "proper" tail fins lights, until they changed them in 1961!

LOVELY CAR From N Z.❤

Exactly like my dads! He picked me up from school in it when I was just six. 😊

We seen one of these cars in Cyprus a week before lockdown it was beautiful

Great looks and sounds gorgeous too

Lovely old motor. I love it. 👌

Looking at that, and hearing that engine, brought back memories from my early childhood. When I was born Ma had owned her 58 Velox for 3 years and had already had to have welding done and a full respray. 5 years later it was off to be spares, because the body had rotted to the point of being dangerous, not to mention rendering it unable to be serviced. If I bought one she would have my guts for garters and my bollocks for earrings. Sure is pretty, though.

Well presented Dave! I could not buy that car, apart from not having the money, I would want to drive it every day to show it off.

Beautiful 👌

I wonder if any of the estate versions still survive.

Very nice Cresta

I thought the Blackfriars, Cresta was just about the best looking estate car of that time.

@nygelmiller5293

2 жыл бұрын

To Green man Perhaps the best looking estate of ALL time! It does have a rival, though. The Vauxhall Insignia! Did You know the Queen has a navy GREEN estate? She has always bought big Vauxhall's!

@paulh-1950

Жыл бұрын

Yes you are right it was the best looking estate car on British roads. There are only a few Friary estate car conversions left, including our late Queen’s green one.

Back in the mid to late 60s I had a 1960 then a 1962 ending up with a 1965 one lovely cars but god did they rust quickly .

@peterduxbury927

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah! Just like the Vauxhall Victors, rust everywhere.

Boy did they rust, my cousin had one on his farm and it was like net curtains!

mind your knees...

Looks like a rambler. NEAT

I want to know the price for the Vauxhall Cresta I'm very interesting -Well i don't know how to do things on the computer

Isnt it ticking over a bit fast? Or is the choke still on? Auto choke these aren't they? Parents PB Velox was.

Someone has spunked serious wonga on that ride...

I want to buy it. What is its price in pak rupees.

Started off life grey.

The Miss World of automobiles - big, blousy and glamorous. Had one in yellow and brown for a while in the Sixties and thought I was the dog's b******s. Shame about the curse of Vauxhalls though, the dreaded rust.

@davidtaylor2131

2 жыл бұрын

I wonder I’d Derek or any Vauxhall fans would confirm that they rusted fast because the battery terminals were wired so the earth was the positive. This accelerated the electrolysis and hastened the rusting. That’s why modern cars have negative earths

Great cars but like a lot off cars back then they rotted out in quick time. Now manufacturers are realising there not rotting out quite quick enough so they will have to do something about it. In the last couple off years started to see a lot off thinner metal used and weak design faults.

@travelling_stephen

2 жыл бұрын

I don't think we need to worry about them rusting it's all the electronics, censors etc etc, a friend of mine has a 5 year old car with serious wire harness Rot which has been returned to the manufacturer for investigation. All i can say it was made in England.

@edwardkennedy9919

2 жыл бұрын

@@travelling_stephen yeah at least you could repair these old car's with a few spanners, not like the electronic shite of today

@nygelmiller5293

2 жыл бұрын

To Alan Smith. Nowadays, you can't even get things like vinyl upholstery anymore that lasts. My fabulous velvet Turkish setter has smart deep black PVC armrests. Where my elbow DARES to rest on these, the vinyl is disintegrating, after only 3 years! And my kitchen chair has such thin PVC upholstery, that is splitting after only the same amount of time.Do we all NEED to buy Rolls-Royces, in order to get durability?

I.O.M. Taxis.

Oooo bench seat

Yea and he fergot to say that this PA was powered by a 3.3, oh yea...

Surely that's a 1962 Cresta.

@RUSTYVELOX

2 жыл бұрын

The late1960 to 1962 PA Cresta didn't have indicators in the rear fins, and instead of the large stop/tail lights, it had the smaller rear light clusters, that incorporated the indicators. The later PA's also had long almost rectangular indicator/side lights instead of the round ones on these earlier cars.

@terranceprice7006

Жыл бұрын

@@RUSTYVELOX I was thinking exactly the same, this should not have those indicators in the fine as the early models which had these had a 3 piece rear window and different bonnet and grille. I started serving my time at a well known Vauxhall dealership in Durham City, replaced many rear quarters and top surround panels way back then, Vauxhall started to fit a flat splash guard behind the reart wheels did1nt do much good.

@RUSTYVELOX

Жыл бұрын

@@terranceprice7006 In late '59 to August '60 there was the mid series PA, it had the later grille fitted with round side lights and indicators, also late single piece rear screen, but had same round clocks on dash, 2.2 engine, indicators in fins and oval tail lights as early version. There are more early 3 piece rear screen models about, several years ago 9 early models turned up a the VBOA National Rally, but only 3 mid series models!

Oh no it’s a British built motor car it must be rubbish as you keep telling us…. ‘No wonder we don’t make cars anymore’ you’re words fella !!

PA Crestas/Velox........Fuckin old rustbuckets, rusted in the showrooms

Nice car $ 500