Thanks for the upload. I happen to be the proud owner of a Vauxhall Victor FB 1964 model, same as this car of yours, I can feel the excitement of that day when my car will be back on the road. At the moment in the process of restoration for the past so many years.
Great thing about aussieland is because of the sunshine the cars don't rust....over here in pommieland after 40 years not much of this lovely old vauxhall would be left.
I've driven thousands of miles in one of those - back in the 1970s driving to Teachers' College every day... and it was considered to be an old car when I had one nearly 50 years ago!! My was actually a 1962, with the frumpier radiator grill. The 1962 was 1500cc, and the 64 like yours is 1600. Later on I bought a 64. They were going cheap secondhand because Holden had stopped selling Vauxhalls in 66, and the Vivas and Victors had become "orphans" and maybe some people thought that getting parts and service was going to be a problem. In fact, Holden kept plenty of parts in their dealerships until about 1976. I remember picking up some NOS clearance spare parts from Young & Green Holden in Kotara (Newcastle) when they finally decided to empty their remaining Vauxhall parts - and that was about 1977. By the way, I had my Victor up to 80 mph on the New England Highway heading up to East Maitland where a buddy of mine lived. That was a pretty good clip at a time when big Holdens of similar model - the EJ grey six - was only about 5 mph faster!! In fact, take a look at a picture of an EJ and you'll see the family resemblance with what was called "the beaver tail" - the boot rounded down to the back bumper and sort of similar type oval taillights set very low.
Hi guys, I was a Vauxhall partsman early seventies and knew these inside out. I also had three or four of them. The dearest was £90 and the cheapest free. Thrash the goolies off em, front bench seat, great for a shag, fantastic heater. Could get eight of us in, all drunk. How to keep one running. Make new low tension lead, the thin one from the distributor to the coil, vital. Get a rebuild kit for carb, transforms it. Crankcase ventilator hose from rocker looks ok but they tend to collapse inside. You could probably make one. They were great and could be fixed for nothing and you could go up and down through the box without using the clutch. Have fun
Paddy I totally agree with you back in the summer holidays of 1987 I was given an HA Viva when I was 15.With a group of friends we spent an afternoon getting it up and running and it was straight onto farm tracks and stubble fields. Unfortunately it didn't last long as the back axle decided to make a break for freedom! The structural integrity was lacking so it took most of the car with it from the b posts back!!!!!! We had all sorts from Morris Oxfords to Ford Zodiacs and all points in between!!!!
I started driving my dad’s Fb Victor in about 1963 as a 13 year old and passed my test in it age 17 with a faulty dynamo. I don’t remember the column shift though. Enjoy the restoration.
The Vauxhall Victor fb was my Dad's mid-60s company 'repmobile' and he was quite proud of it, polishing it with Turtle Wax at the weekends. He drove it all over the South and South West of England, visiting farms, farm suppliers and grain dealers. No motorways there in those days so long distance trips were slow and he usually spent four nights away from home each week doing a lot of miles each week. He'd get an extra day off sometimes as the car often needed a lube job or service, at 1500 and 3000 mile intervals I think.
Hi all my dad had loads of these when I was a kid his favourite was a cream coloured chocolate roof estate 1964 model drum brakes all round the last versions had discbrakes and it was a four speed four on the floor my own car was a green 1963 saloon 3 speed column change with holes in the floor and various other places with the dreaded tin worm engines on these cars were fantastic happy days!
OMG we had one of these when I was a kid. You never see them any more because they rotted like crazy. I was really amazed you'd found one in such good condition, then I saw you were in Australia. The only things I remember about the car was the column shift and a weird reading lamp that switched on when you moved it.
The interior light can be switched on from the main lighting switch by rotating the switch to extreme clockwise. I devil this car, literally in my bloodstream.
Be careful of using modern ethanol petrol, it may rot old type rubber pipes, rubbery things in the pump and brass type things in the carburetor. It also does a good job of stripping any protective lacquer on old-type steel-type things such as pipes and the tank itself. You may also have to get the valve seats hardened to run on unleaded petrol. But apart from that, the Victor was a dependable family man's car with a sweet little engine.
Nice FB Victor . These rusted like hell in the UK , a trait shared by all UK cars of the period of course but the Vauxhalls seemed much worse . Sold in the many thousands , disappeared into a pile of rust as soon as they hit the first winter . Nice to see at least one survive in the more pleasant climate of AUS .
Strange - my father's FB was 11 years old when he sold in in 1973 and it was pretty good condition-wise: he traded it in for a Mk. IV Ford Zodiac. The F-types were far worse for rot than the FBs, I seem to recall.
Greetings from the United States of Unconsciousness. What a cool little car, styling seems vaguely reminiscent of the AMC rambler. I look forward to the next episode on the resurrection of your well running Vauxhall.
Hi guys. Well done !!!. A quick question. Is that an old Datsun motor in the victor ?. It looks just like the engine that Datsun put in some of their cars and small pickups in the1970's
It would be an original Vauxhall engine . Most small English cars had the same basic looking engine. Datsun bought the patent to produce the Austin/Morris engine for their small cars. A lot of people have installed these in their old Austin’s and Morris’s.
Unsure mate for the moment we are just playing we have heaps of cars tho so it might end up on the market sooner than later 😉 I want to drive it first though on the road.
Hi Joe just working on other things Atm. Car is sitting in the same position since last video will try and do something in the coming weeks thanks for your interest.
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Oh memories again - even stronger than the previous video. Makes me think about the good times as a kid with my lovely dad. Thanks for posting guys 🇬🇧
Thanks for the upload. I happen to be the proud owner of a Vauxhall Victor FB 1964 model, same as this car of yours, I can feel the excitement of that day when my car will be back on the road. At the moment in the process of restoration for the past so many years.
Great thing about aussieland is because of the sunshine the cars don't rust....over here in pommieland after 40 years not much of this lovely old vauxhall would be left.
I've driven thousands of miles in one of those - back in the 1970s driving to Teachers' College every day... and it was considered to be an old car when I had one nearly 50 years ago!! My was actually a 1962, with the frumpier radiator grill. The 1962 was 1500cc, and the 64 like yours is 1600. Later on I bought a 64. They were going cheap secondhand because Holden had stopped selling Vauxhalls in 66, and the Vivas and Victors had become "orphans" and maybe some people thought that getting parts and service was going to be a problem. In fact, Holden kept plenty of parts in their dealerships until about 1976. I remember picking up some NOS clearance spare parts from Young & Green Holden in Kotara (Newcastle) when they finally decided to empty their remaining Vauxhall parts - and that was about 1977. By the way, I had my Victor up to 80 mph on the New England Highway heading up to East Maitland where a buddy of mine lived. That was a pretty good clip at a time when big Holdens of similar model - the EJ grey six - was only about 5 mph faster!! In fact, take a look at a picture of an EJ and you'll see the family resemblance with what was called "the beaver tail" - the boot rounded down to the back bumper and sort of similar type oval taillights set very low.
Lovely to see the old dip switch by the clutch pedal 😀
Hi guys, I was a Vauxhall partsman early seventies and knew these inside out. I also had three or four of them. The dearest was £90 and the cheapest free. Thrash the goolies off em, front bench seat, great for a shag, fantastic heater. Could get eight of us in, all drunk. How to keep one running. Make new low tension lead, the thin one from the distributor to the coil, vital. Get a rebuild kit for carb, transforms it. Crankcase ventilator hose from rocker looks ok but they tend to collapse inside. You could probably make one. They were great and could be fixed for nothing and you could go up and down through the box without using the clutch. Have fun
Paddy I totally agree with you back in the summer holidays of 1987 I was given an HA Viva when I was 15.With a group of friends we spent an afternoon getting it up and running and it was straight onto farm tracks and stubble fields. Unfortunately it didn't last long as the back axle decided to make a break for freedom! The structural integrity was lacking so it took most of the car with it from the b posts back!!!!!! We had all sorts from Morris Oxfords to Ford Zodiacs and all points in between!!!!
I started driving my dad’s Fb Victor in about 1963 as a 13 year old and passed my test in it age 17 with a faulty dynamo. I don’t remember the column shift though. Enjoy the restoration.
Seeing all the switches brings back memories. Here in the U.K. I learned to drive in my fathers ‘64 Victor during ‘66/‘67.
The Vauxhall Victor fb was my Dad's mid-60s company 'repmobile' and he was quite proud of it, polishing it with Turtle Wax at the weekends. He drove it all over the South and South West of England, visiting farms, farm suppliers and grain dealers. No motorways there in those days so long distance trips were slow and he usually spent four nights away from home each week doing a lot of miles each week. He'd get an extra day off sometimes as the car often needed a lube job or service, at 1500 and 3000 mile intervals I think.
Well done and ripe for restoration with no rot what's not to like 😊
Great stuff blokes.....viewer in UK.
Hi all my dad had loads of these when I was a kid his favourite was a cream coloured chocolate roof estate 1964 model drum brakes all round the last versions had discbrakes and it was a four speed four on the floor my own car was a green 1963 saloon 3 speed column change with holes in the floor and various other places with the dreaded tin worm engines on these cars were fantastic happy days!
OMG we had one of these when I was a kid. You never see them any more because they rotted like crazy. I was really amazed you'd found one in such good condition, then I saw you were in Australia. The only things I remember about the car was the column shift and a weird reading lamp that switched on when you moved it.
Ah, I think I was referring to a Cresta. Sorry. Still both nice old rare cars.
The interior light can be switched on from the main lighting switch by rotating the switch to extreme clockwise. I devil this car, literally in my bloodstream.
Be careful of using modern ethanol petrol, it may rot old type rubber pipes, rubbery things in the pump and brass type things in the carburetor. It also does a good job of stripping any protective lacquer on old-type steel-type things such as pipes and the tank itself. You may also have to get the valve seats hardened to run on unleaded petrol. But apart from that, the Victor was a dependable family man's car with a sweet little engine.
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Nice FB Victor . These rusted like hell in the UK , a trait shared by all UK cars of the period of course but the Vauxhalls seemed much worse . Sold in the many thousands , disappeared into a pile of rust as soon as they hit the first winter . Nice to see at least one survive in the more pleasant climate of AUS .
I could ship it to you matey ,😉
Strange - my father's FB was 11 years old when he sold in in 1973 and it was pretty good condition-wise: he traded it in for a Mk. IV Ford Zodiac. The F-types were far worse for rot than the FBs, I seem to recall.
Good job 👏 👍 👌
Well done in getting it to run 👍
Keep up the good work guys :)
Sounds like a supercharged dragster when it (amazingly) first starts...
Greetings from the United States of Unconsciousness. What a cool little car, styling seems vaguely reminiscent of the AMC rambler. I look forward to the next episode on the resurrection of your well running Vauxhall.
Not the littlest in the range. The HA viva was a lot smaller!
Looks more like a 1963-1965 Plymouth Valiant
Still waiting for the clean up video on this vauxhall victor.
My Dad’s first new car. My Mum drove my brother and I around in one until my parents traded it for a corolla...🙄
Hi guys. Well done !!!. A quick question. Is that an old Datsun motor in the victor ?. It looks just like the engine that Datsun put in some of their cars and small pickups in the1970's
It would be an original Vauxhall engine . Most small English cars had the same basic looking engine. Datsun bought the patent to produce the Austin/Morris engine for their small cars. A lot of people have installed these in their old Austin’s and Morris’s.
What are you going to do with it?..hi from Adelaide..✌
Unsure mate for the moment we are just playing we have heaps of cars tho so it might end up on the market sooner than later 😉 I want to drive it first though on the road.
Hi Mark and guys. Any chance of a update or clean up on the Vauxhall victor fb. The last 2 video's were great.
Hi Joe just working on other things Atm. Car is sitting in the same position since last video will try and do something in the coming weeks thanks for your interest.
@@markcooper605 Thank you for your reply Mark. I will be very interested in the outcome of your videos. Keep on tinkering. Take care.
Good grief you're back to torture this poor old thing some more , this was so painfull to watch .
i agree ! oil change ?