Modern car makers please take note. This is what we really want. No electronic nonsense, no pointless fripperies, no battery or hybrid drivetrains, and absolutely no indicators that make stupid fart noises when you use them (that's for you Elon). Just good old fashioned straight forward engineering that anyone can understand wrapped up in an attractive package that everyone can appreciate.

@chrisblockley5783

8 ай бұрын

Hmmm. Anti modernistic? Not even sure if that is a word. My old man had a 1965 Vauxhall Velox with twin tailpipes! I was a motor mechanic for 35 years both here in NZ and Australia and agree entirely. Simple is good, complicated is expensive. EV's will become the new nuclear/plastic waste problem and we've learned f!@# all in the last 100 years.

@philtucker1224

19 күн бұрын

Car manufacturers don’t want them either! (So expensive) but they have to fit them to be allowed to sell their cars to the public! So it’s not their fault, it’s actually OURS!

@eugenegilleno9344

12 күн бұрын

….exactly my thoughts….but the dealerships have it all worked out, to just syphon cash out of our wallets !

@matthendry3834

5 күн бұрын

Easy and simple to work on..😊

An amazing piece of motoring history ! This is from a time when sensible , level headed designers produced cars for sensible, level headed motorists.

@alasdairfinlayson

15 күн бұрын

With no range worries or bursting into flames worries at all !

Hi, wonderful video of a well decent looking 70 year old car. Whoever looked after this should be proud of themselves. Everything you demonstrated was state of the art back in 1953. I remember seeing those on the road back then, I was 3 years old at that time. My first girlfriend's Dad had one of those in 1968, the ride quality was very comfortable. He later gave it to his youngest son and bought a Vauxhall Victor, that was ptetty cool too, as it was the model that first came out in 1959, although his one was a '62 or '63 I think...quite rare now here in the UK. Thanks for sharing your car with us and take care. Jon B.

Lovely cars, but I do remember that they used to rust rapidly!

@terrystevens5261

13 күн бұрын

Most cars of that era used to rust rapidly.

I'm truly amazed at the condition of this beauty. I remember when you never bought a Vauxhall when it was raining because by the time you got it home, it would stand there drizzling rust like it was going out of fashion! Whoever has nurtured this example deserves a medal. Seriously.😊

@paulscountrygarage9180

17 күн бұрын

@@Roy-gi5ul fortunately in Australia our weather is a little more kind to metal but we still have rust issues. This is a good example and I am glad it was well looked after and I managed to acquire her.

Great to see your new car. In the 70s Dad's mechanic drove a 53 Velox which he had resprayed in pearlescent green, it was stunning at the time of Austin 1300s, Cortinas and Allegros. He gave me a lift to work every day one summer, either in his Velox, a Standard Eight or Standard Ten. When I last saw him he still had all three of them, though by then he used a Granada as his daily driver.

Lovely car Paul. Loved your article in the P4 Owners club magazine this month with a pic of this car looking so smart

The bonnet flutes are something to behold. They stopped doing these flutes on the bonnets when they discontinued the FE Victor series.

My favourite of all time British saloon (but also the Rolls Royce Silver Spirit). Amazingly, in old fashioned Britain after WW2, our stylish neighbour up the road Mrs.Price, had this, in BLACK. At Christmas, she asked my mother if she wanted to go with her, to the fancy London store, HARRODS, to look at their Christmas display. So the mothers did so, with Mrs. Price's daughter and myself going too - to see Santa Claus! So we parked outside Harrods store. YES, parked in London! (During the war, many cars had been melted down, to make weapons! - so there were hardly any cars. No parking restrictions! How I wish I lived next door to you, so I could ask you for a ride, in your still wonderful car!

@paulscountrygarage9180

13 күн бұрын

@@nygelmiller5293 and you would be so welcome to come for a ride and even have a drive, if you wished. 😁

Lovely car Paul, same year of manufacture as myself but in considerably better condition 🤗

@paulscountrygarage9180

11 ай бұрын

Glenn, I reckon you are going ok as is Dame Vera Velox.

@nygelmiller5293

13 күн бұрын

​@@paulscountrygarage9180 Great name - dame Vera Velox

Love the fact that some of the controls have English writing on them to show what they are instead of international puzzle book symbols.

@paulscountrygarage9180

18 күн бұрын

@@darleytransportandtravel6353 agreed, words are better than symbols.

Just found your channel - really enjoying it! You have some bloody gorgeous motor cars! Really impressed!

@paulscountrygarage9180

Ай бұрын

Thanks so much for that.

It’s a real beauty! My father had a 1957 for years in pale blue and I still remember the rego - BV8814. Dad was always re-gluing the window lifter glass blocks back on. It met an ignominious end - got sold to a hippy and the chassis broke in half. Despite the car being well looked after, it was no match for the NZ dampness, while showing no evidence of panel rust. But it did have the upgrade - not only those lovely bonnet flutes, but the prestigious conchos in a line on either side of the bonnet - 3 each side IIRC, and of course, the formidable eagle with wings extended! Probably gained additional performance with these. These were always fast in a 1950’s sort of a way. But not as quick as his Zephyr Mk2, which would do 70mph!!! 😮 This one is a beautiful heirloom from a time when things were built to last, and sometimes did. That interior is just gorgeous! 👍🏻

@nygelmiller5293

13 күн бұрын

You needed proper SUPERGLUE to re- glue the things on the windows, that came off!

You’ve nailed the current process of the standard KZread car review. Glad you love your lovely low tech Velox. I love the plane emblem on the glovebox!

I love the trafficators (B pillar indicators), and the airplane on the left side air bag cover; as if there weren’t already enough airplane cues in the styling. Thanks for the upload.

@paulscountrygarage9180

Жыл бұрын

Thanks mate. I love the trafficators as well. The jet plane on the glove box lid is on the panel that gets removed to install the radio speaker. When this happens the plane gets moved to the left side of the glovebox lid.

Oh man that’s a beautiful car I’m jealous 😜👍

For a brief moment Paul I thought you had bought another car. Car does look new I must say.

@paulscountrygarage9180

Жыл бұрын

Peter, that sort of was the idea. 😂

Gosh, what a sweetie. And they're "trafficators", those side-projecting indicators

@paulscountrygarage9180

13 күн бұрын

@@daffyduk77 yep, they are trafficators.

Wow! Semaphore turn directionals! My early 1950 MGTD doesn't have turn signals at all.

Beautiful car 👍🏻

Absolutely love it!

That old Vauxhall 6 cylinder engine with a single carburettor really runs as a 4 cylinder because hardly any mixture gets to the cylinders at the ends. An "uncle" of mine had one, and a chauffeur to drive it! For its day it was a pretty good car, but I knew someone who had the same engine in a later Vauxhall, and had a twin carb conversion, which gave it a bit more grunt. P.S. I once asked Lesley. the chauffeur, what the button on the floor was for, and he told me that it was the blow up button!

'So good you can hardly hear it'!! Brilliant!!

@paulscountrygarage9180

Жыл бұрын

Vera does run very quietly.

@nygelmiller5293

13 күн бұрын

​The version I mentioned stylish Mrs. PRICE had taken us to London in, at Christmas must have been a Wyvern version - and therefore must have had the smaller engine. It was very slow, but silent and relaxed, however. IN London, owners of big American meet in a park, to display their vehicules, and go on a leisurely run they call the CHELSEA CRUISE. Mrs.Price's beautiful, silent version, was SLOW, so you could say THAT was a CRUISER!

She's an absolute beauty!❤

Yes, They Were A Great Car, Had A Big Six Cyclinder Motor, As In Those Days I Worked For An Engine Reconditioner, And We Reconed Lots Of The Motors, but They All Were Over A 100,000 Miles And The Body Was Always Good To Just Do The Motor Up. A Friend Of My Mother's Had A Brand New One, And He Let Me Drive It, It Was Smooth As Going Down The Road.

I had a big laugh about it. Thank you. Reall old skool humor.

@paulscountrygarage9180

Жыл бұрын

I tend to watch quite a few new car reviews and thought “why not a new review of an old car”. Anyway, very glad you enjoyed it.

@FransvandenBergeMuziekschuur

Жыл бұрын

@@paulscountrygarage9180 I miss that old skool humor. So I was stoked to find it here in this review of this epicly restored car.

@paulscountrygarage9180

Жыл бұрын

@@FransvandenBergeMuziekschuur I’m so glad you enjoyed it. I just point the camera and talk. 😝

Love the 'Hub Nut' reference.

A wonderful car love it, my parents best friends had one , enjoyed many journeys in it

What a beauty. It sill has the original number plates too, not remade modern copies. That suggests the car has never been out of registration since new in February 1953.

@paulscountrygarage9180

Жыл бұрын

She is a beauty. Unfortunately, the number plates (whilst original issue number) are modern plates. Fortunately NSW makes them in the old style colour and typeface. The car was unregistered when I bought her and, having the original sales receipt I knew the rego number, it was available, so I ordered it.

@coover65

Жыл бұрын

@@paulscountrygarage9180 On closer inspection (at 0:59) I can make out that they're copies. The original ones were steel with the backs also painted egg yolk yellow, whereas the modern ones are aluminium. But still you've done extremely well to add to the authenticity. I've heard of people who manage to buy original, cancelled pairs of plates on ebay after finding that number available, then managing to fit period correct plates to the car. Not the original plate number, but many aren't as fortunate as you to know the history in such detail.

@sanfordflach6061

Жыл бұрын

When I was in college back in 1965, I bought a used 1960 Vauxhall Victor. It had a 4 cylinder engine but was a great little car for the time. My dad had a 1959 almost identical. He got much better service from his, but of course he wasn’t a teenager. I live in the USA and they stopped importing Vauxhalls in about 1962, so parts became very difficult to obtain by the middle to late sixties.

@paulscountrygarage9180

Жыл бұрын

@@sanfordflach6061 I’m about to look at an FB Victor to add to the fleet.

Beautiful.

Just lovely!

Ours was a 1954 model... we called her the "Green Sheeptruck"... Key in, pull the starter and she would roar into life... OR... the serious secret - Dads metal cigarette paper slipped between the fuses and she would start without a key! Dip the lights with your left foot!!! She was a car

@paulscountrygarage9180

11 ай бұрын

Nice name. Mine is Dame Vera Velox.

She's A Beauty ❤

These were Blackpool Taxis ranked together at Talbot Square. They were black with yellow roofs, and had the California windscreen shades. All gone to Rust Heaven. Remember these Yank miniatures. Many here had a love/ hate view of these and Fords.Very quickly rusted here in the 50’s Vauxhalls as many had used recycled Belgian scrap metal. Notably the later Victor. The later Crestas could literally break their lower floorpan on railway crossings. Told to me by a deceased Vauxhall Dealer. 👍🏻🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Too much electronics on modern vehicles - nothing wrong with wind up windows…..and why now we have to remove engines to access starter motors, when in yesteryear it was just removing a couple of bolts and it was out. ……I’m jealous ! 😀😁👍🏼

The gear lever reminds me of a record player pickup!

That is my kind of 2023 Vauxhall Velox 😊 it was the “4 foot powered brakes” that sealed the deal. The funny thought is someone in 40 years time will find the video and think… “was that what people were buying and driving in 2023?” 😂

@paulscountrygarage9180

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Paul. Was a bit of fun and I love the idea that in the future someone will watch it and be totally confused.

What a nice tidy example. Given that Holden were still building the FJ, the Velox must have looked very out of place and futuristic as it came down the line along with them. I assume that they sold for a premium over the equivalent Holden, especially as the Velox was more modern looking and better equipped.

@paulscountrygarage9180

Жыл бұрын

The Vauxhall cost Pounds 1178.6.6 where as the FJ was approx Pounds 1023.0.0. So, yes, quite a bit more expensive. The Vauxhall was 12V, the FJ 6V. Both had 138ci 6 cylinders but totally different engines, driving through 3 speed column shift.

@ldnwholesale8552

Жыл бұрын

FJs had windup windows and no wig wam lights

@paulscountrygarage9180

Жыл бұрын

@@ldnwholesale8552 correct but the 48-215 (FX) and FJ had no indicators of any type, only driver hand signals.

Sweet car, Sir.

My dad had a straight 6 Velox 1953 I think followed by 2 Wyverns 4 cllinder. Ran them as hackney cars in rural Ireland when cars were very few. They never let him down. By the way his first car was a model T ford. A present from his older family in Chicago, he was 16 years old !

@nygelmiller5293

13 күн бұрын

To Richard O'Malley. Your Dad was SO lucky!

Just needs one of those electric "handbrakes" to make you feel more secure parking on a hill. Lovely car.

@paulscountrygarage9180

18 күн бұрын

@@malc.s.5373 fortunately it has a great park brake.

I love the Armstrong steering system this car has. I am surprised that with all the features this car actually does have, that it doesn't have window regulators. I've never seen this system before. Don't the windows fall down with the vibration and bumps of driving?

@paulscountrygarage9180

16 күн бұрын

@@jasone3166 The driver’s side rear window did fall down whilst driving so I took the door panel off and found that the bottom of the glass has a large, spring loaded, arm that sits underneath and supports the window wherever it is left. This one had come off, for whatever reason, so I reattached and now it works perfectly. Funny enough the steering is very light as, indeed, it is also in the Humber and Rover. None of them are, however, as light as the Model T.

A real beauty mate!

@paulscountrygarage9180

Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much.

@mrarkane

Жыл бұрын

@@paulscountrygarage9180 When I was a kid we had a later fin model Velox a bit like an FB holden.

If you switch on the hazard warning, would the trafficators go up and down fast enough to make it fly?

@paulscountrygarage9180

Жыл бұрын

I’ll have to give that a go! 😂

Lovely example. Funny old days - Ford wouldn't give you electric wipers, whereas Vauxhall did, but Vauxhall wouldn't give you wind-up windows, whereas Ford did. No wonder many turned to the bigger Austin and Morris cars. The updated Vauxhall Velox a couple of years later became heavily overdone with excessive chrome ornamentation on the bodywork. So for me, the 1953 version looked a lot tidier externally.

@paulscountrygarage9180

Жыл бұрын

Agreed. One small point is that the Vauxhall’s wipers are cable driven from the cam which is why I showed the variable speed controlled by the accelerator pedal. 😝

@wordsmith52

Жыл бұрын

@@paulscountrygarage9180 Oh ok I missed that but did that have the same detrimental effect as the Ford wiper system?

@paulscountrygarage9180

Жыл бұрын

@@wordsmith52 completely the opposite. A vacuum system slows to stop as the throttle is opened as in accelerating or going up hill whereas a cam system speeds up as you accelerate.

Great humour

We had a 1954 Velox . It had the forward opening bonnet. Not your side opening one I kid you not, dad painted it the exact same colour as yours is. I have never seen another in this colour. What is it called?.?

@paulscountrygarage9180

Жыл бұрын

It is meant to be Olympic Green but it’s a a slightly darker green.

I remember seeing these rusting in people's back yards in NZ in the late 70's.

@paulscountrygarage9180

11 ай бұрын

They did indeed rust and, in the UK, you could watch them rust. 😀. Luckily out drier climate helps a bit as does the lack of salted roads.

@philtucker1224

19 күн бұрын

Yes I noticed that visiting Pretoria in the 70s - almost no rust..

Mr Father had a black one with red leather seats. Have not seen one in a very long time.

PS; thanks a lot for the video. Colin UK 🇬🇧

"Brand new" 1953 Vauxhall Velox...a beauty for sure.

Thats just lovely ,,, saw a Similar car in " A place to call home " I think , for me it just illustrates How totally Soulless new cars are , VW group in particular .... Thier range are like Quadruplets ...horrible ... Love it and Show it off . Lee

@paulscountrygarage9180

Жыл бұрын

Hahaha. Should I mention my modern car is a VW? 😜

@Lee-cz6ss

Жыл бұрын

@@paulscountrygarage9180 My Apologies ....but I am sure You get more stares in the Velox!

@paulscountrygarage9180

Жыл бұрын

@@Lee-cz6ss not in the least bit upset but, you are correct, I get noticed in the Velox.

Very secure with sliding windows and ign system that may take 30 sec to hotwire

@paulscountrygarage9180

Жыл бұрын

The windows lock when the doors are locked.

i vagualy remember these a lovely car in its day.

My first car was a Wyvern, the 4 cylinder version.

@paulscountrygarage9180

Жыл бұрын

We got the Wyvern as well, in Australia, but the Velox was the more popular car but a mile.

The name Walter Mitty comes to mind.

@paulscountrygarage9180

15 күн бұрын

@@thevauxhallman7157 damn, which you had have said that when I first got her, would have made a great name. She got Dame Vera Velox instead.

I can't imagine any run of the mill car today lasting 70 years

@paulscountrygarage9180

11 ай бұрын

Neither can I.

@glpilpi6209

11 ай бұрын

@@paulscountrygarage9180 That's a lovely car , and your take on describing it was in " modern terms " was great 👍

@paulscountrygarage9180

11 ай бұрын

@@glpilpi6209 I had fun doing it. I need to work out a way to do my Model T in the same vane.

Richard Attenborough of the automotives!!

@paulscountrygarage9180

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Jim.

Love it, 0 to 60 by next Wednesday or so.

@paulscountrygarage9180

Жыл бұрын

Yes, not the fastest sprint car but she does get along surprisingly well and happily cruises as 100kph.

These cars were built when people could drive.

There doesn't seem to be a Vauxhall dealership here in New York. Oh pooh,

@paulscountrygarage9180

11 күн бұрын

@@ersikillian Vauxhall dealerships don’t exist in Australia anymore either. 😢

Ah when life was more simple and basic to your need's. I had a Vauxhall Wyvern and a Ford Consul mk 2. Life and cars are today overly complex.

He's a case 😂😅

@paulscountrygarage9180

Жыл бұрын

Ah but, am I? 😝😂😇

Good stone age technology still does the same As what a modern day car can do from a to b not much to brake

@terrystevens5261

13 күн бұрын

Plenty can go wrong with them. but you could put many things right yourself. these days you need a laptop instead of a spanner.

Does it really have airbags or were you just joking?

@paulscountrygarage9180

18 күн бұрын

Not an air bag to be found in any of my old cars. 😜

@philtucker1224

18 күн бұрын

@@paulscountrygarage9180 then why say it?

@paulscountrygarage9180

18 күн бұрын

@@philtucker1224 because it was a joke video to be taken tongue in cheek. There is no infotainment system either but I still talked about it. It isn’t a 2023 Vauxhall either but a 1953.

@philtucker1224

18 күн бұрын

Great Car, my late Father had a nice one in black and took it on holiday to central Paris in 1958 with my uncle and two cousins. Unfortunately they were badly hit head on by a big gravel truck whilst parked up. My Dad had a cracked skull and my uncle had a shattered right leg, both stuck in the French hospital for six weeks. No seat belts back then! - luckily my two young cousins in the back were not so badly injured and are still alive today..-Car was a right-off though!😊

@paulscountrygarage9180

18 күн бұрын

@@philtucker1224 sorry to hear. A sad story. Yep, no seatbelts but I do in 2 of my other old girls. Both my Rover 90 and Humber Super Snipe have belts fitted.

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I don't understand why most electric cars for ordinary people look so nerdy. Is it really that hard for manufacturers to build a cool-looking retro EV, perhaps with tailfins or cola bottle styling?

@paulscountrygarage9180

17 күн бұрын

@@Nick-zp3ub agree but all new car, especially EV’s, rely on low drag figures to aid fuel/energy consumption so the tail fins and coke styling just wouldn’t be efficient enough. I would love a 1950’s Dodge as an EV.

Re all the modern crap you were on about - who needs it? Nice.

@paulscountrygarage9180

Жыл бұрын

Totally agree. I have a 2 year old ‘modern’ and it’s the electronics that ‘play up’. They don’t fail but they are inconsistent in the way they work.

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And ULEZ compliant

@paulscountrygarage9180

11 ай бұрын

Very handy info for us here in Australia. 😜😇😂

Easy for someone dishonest to drive away

@paulscountrygarage9180

Жыл бұрын

Maybe, maybe not. Many nowadays cans drive manual cars let alone ‘three on the tree’. I do park it up with a steering lock bar in place.

Der britische Opel schönes Auto ist in Deutschland un bekannt ❤️👍

Not amusing actually, in fact tiresome. Why not just review the 1953 car as it is....totally pointless.

@paulscountrygarage9180

12 күн бұрын

@@Bassman1999 I had already reviewed the car so this was just a bit of fun but thank you so much for your pointless comment. So sorry you can’t just have a laugh like everyone else.

A mate of mine had one of these