The History of Vauxhall: Part 1
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- Embark on an exhilarating journey through the captivating tapestry of Vauxhall's rich history as Brendan Coogan unveils its fascinating stories and milestones.
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I will never forget our neighbor in LA telling me he was going to the Buick dealer to get a new car in 1961. When he returned, I was expecting him to come home in a big Buick and instead, he came home in a little yellow Vauxhall 4 door sedan. It had a 3 speed transmission on the column. Buick dealers sold the Vauxhall. And then later, sold the Opel. He used that car daily for 10 years and then bought a new Karman Ghia by VW. I have to say the Vauxhall held up well and gave him little trouble.
My family owned a few Vauxhalls, my father's car was a 1959 Velox, my mother drove a 1959 Victor and then my sister and brother-in-law drove Victor(s) too, i n fact they traded up about every three years from 1959 onwards .
I do remember that we bought these from a General Motors Dealership , who were the dealers for Vauxhall here where we lived in Canada.
I enjoyed these two parts of the Vauxhall history, nice to see and here where these cars started from.
My first was a Mark 1 Viva great car. Learnt driving in it and passed my test in it in 1966.
So glad you mentioned the post war economy, 👏 many a subscriber on TH-cam forgets that before opening their mouth 👄 and ridicule the more humble models Vauxhall made.
Lets remember, that to get raw steel into an assembly line back in the day, you had to have an export strategy 😉 to get your government to award your business the materials to remain in business when tanks & amunition was no longer the order of the day.
Thanks for the informative presentation and to my parents whom sold and drove the Vauxhall product in New Zealand.
The iconic bonnet flutes still had echoes right through to the HC Viva of the 70s, and also the 'V' in the grille of later models still.
The flutes weren't on the viva bonnet....they were on and finished on the last of the Victor's - the VX range - the VX1800, VX2300 and VX490.
the design was copied from the doors of a wardrobe.
@@Ken_Dodds_Tickling_Stick I've owned 3 Vivas, a Magnum and the HP Firenza. They definitely had bonnet flutes, albeit in the form of a V-shaped "hump", but still a nod to the original Vauxhalls of the 20s.
I remember reading that Vauxhall built Churchill heavy tanks in World War Two. Obviously they also kept the same wing mounted rear view mirrors on their cars!
A pity one of the main drivers behind Bedford and getting Vauxhall into the black after GM's buyout wasn't mentioned, Laurence Hartnett.
That first Vauxhall with some modern improvements would be a great city car today.
Ignoring some of the commentary...... pleased to see some mint old Vauxhalls, my first car in 1974 was a 1966 viva HA (which I passed my test in) which my dad bought new. I'd love to drive one again
My farther owned a Crests used it for his taxi services around Southampton docks. I was about 12 at that time and enjoyed many Sunday drives around the south of England. Yes we called it England then. I now live in the one free country of Europe Hungary.
its spelt without the R
You will be curious to know the Vauxhall Cresta was a taxi in New Zealand up to about 1978, they were all Black and very shiney.
All of a sudden, they disappeared, probably old hat.
That was in south Auckland when I lived there.😎👌👍😷😴
I seem to recall Vauxhall with only a three day working week during the HC.
I had an HB SL90.
It was bloody fast for it's time, TBH.
Had HCs. Too heavy for the 1256 engine, but the 1800 Viva and Magnum were fast enough to be funny, even in auto form.
The first old vehicle "single cylinder, horizontally opposed" how is it opposed if it's a single cylinder?
MrStitsevol just what I was going to say, the whole thing a complete load of rubbish.
MrStitsevol good question !…
that was not good no English, single horizontally opposed ?????? No understandie !
Opposed to vertical cylinder
Like the idea of a horizontally opposed single cylinder!
@pmailkeey Should have gone to Commer they had two pistons and three crankshafts plus supercharger!
I think BMW should reintroduce tiller steering on M series cars
Owned by PSA Group today and based on a PSA platform and parts. No longer the brand it was. Vauxhall+Peugeot Citroen = Vauxcitgeot!
This documentary COMPLETELY missed the victor. The best overseas selling car ever. Very strange
Some proper script checking might have been advisable, called the Viva a Victor should have been corrected.
Interesting film, but (sorry to say) it's been edited or produced by people who know little about Vauxhall let alone classic cars - the stuff's all over the place - e.g. you got clips of the 1948 Velox for the 1937 Kadet etc.
P.s. also have the special history book, given to me by a friend who ran the museum in Luton. Nita.
Would some one explain how you can have a horizontally opposed single cylinder engine?
If I was in charge of Vauxhall I'd be disappointed with this.
was about to say that!!
@@johnwh1039 So was I! Not to mention all the mixups between Victors and Vivas, plus the non-mention of the Velox, which preceded the Cresta (coincidentally I'm writing this from the Cresta Hotel in Francistown, Botswana) and sat between the Wyvern and the Cresta in the range.
The failure to mention the 30/98 is unforgivable in any Vauxhall history.
Brendan : Your driving's crap.
Was gonna say the same.
Good car 👍🇬🇧
Narrator forgot to mention that the HB did go so far to inherit the fd victors two slant 4's, the 1599cc & 1975 which was also was shared with GT ( mk's 1 & 2 ) as well the fd's VX 4/90.
The HC had the designs from the collaboration between Pruneau & Cherry.
An HC variant in South Africa was known as the Chevrolet Firenza ( Can Am ) known in racing circles & used the Camaro Z28 V8 engine & used a muncy 4 speed box while using the seven dial dash from the UK 2300.
The HB assembled in canada ( exported to trinidad & tobago ) was known as the Envoy Epic ( sold locally alongside 4 headlight HB LHD in canada ).
In NZ had watched all these on TH-cam, and my family & I had owned HB & HC for over 50 years.😎👌👍😷😴
HB Viva also assembled in Australia, with as much local content as economical, as the first Holden Toranas.
I think they looked better with the round Torana headlight treatment, but could be a case of liking what you know.
Brabham versions too. Called a transistorised Camaro to boost interest .
One of the 1256cc cars ran at Bathurst in 1967 seeking a cheaper class win.
Torana ads :
th-cam.com/video/3QpRD0NKW1k/w-d-xo.html
@@johnd8892 The brightwork around the HB Torana looked superior, particularly around the round headlights.
You mentioned "Camaro", incidentally, in South Africa 🇿🇦, they produced a Viva known locally as a "Chevrolet ( Can-Am) Firenza that featured the Z28 Camaro V8 engine factory-installed, complete with huge twin exhausts like the FD Victor 3300cc. 👍👌🍺🍻🥃💚🌎🗽
My grandfather had a 61 vellox.... I want to find it and buy it back... Used to sit next to him when he drove
It has probably rusted away by now.
You could put a link to part 2 in the description.
What was the price of Vaxuall Velox 1954 model
What is the horizontal single cyclinder opposed to?
Back in the late 70's when I used to walk down to my local pub I went down a back lane a guy had a lock up where he was restoring a old car as I was a young panel beater I used to stop for a chat , one day he was getting his new project off a recover truck a 1930's Vauxhall , he said his first job was to separate body from chassis , I was quite intrested in the car as I worked at a Vauxhall dealers so checked it out car was unibody and chassis was rotten think he scrapped it in the end .
A rotten Vauxhall, who'd have thought!
It's not horizontally opposed if there's nothing opposing it, it would just be horizontal.
HB Victor ?
Opel ?
'This' Kadet of 1930's ' , he says !!!! Its 1948 / 50 Wyvern .
Took my test in one of these great cars smooth to drive
Sadly, no mention/images of the Victor :-(
9:18 He did mention the Victor once but I think he got away with it.
Sounds like the Heritage Centre provides no funding for this presentation.
I knew a lot more before this presentation about this car.
Sorry to hear that this is the case in the UK.😎👌👍😷😴
I’m gutted. I bought my 56 plate Vauxhall vectra Sri 1•9TDI I loved it but unfortunately unlike that little Vauxhall contraption at the beginning, mine died totally just over a year ago after doing 167000 miles It was booked in the garage to have cam belt changed again but unfortunately the belt went 3 days before it was going in the garage. Absolutely gutted. I really looked after that car It was comfy economical and shifted like shit off a shovel I do miss it
GM bought Vauxhall then in Australia (1948), bought Holden. Thus great similarity between the Vauhall Viva and the Holden Torana.
I've got a scale model of the Torana and I agree it has similarities with the Viva. I'm very much a Holden fan.
Gm Holden existed from 1908, 40 years before your claim.
HC Viva & Holden LC & LJ had a designer in common, I believe his name was Leo Pruneau, perhaps I am stealing the narrators thunder, however, I am a second generation Vauxhall family.
My mother worked for a NZ GM distributor from 74 to 81, the Chevette years.
My late father & I bought many Vauxhall / Bedford vehicles prior to Opels involvement in Europe.😎👌👍😷😴
GM takeover of Holden Body Builders took place around 1930 arising from depression era pressures.
The little remembered first Torana HB was virtually a Viva HB with nicer round headlights.
@@vernonmatthews181 published yesterday was the Shannon's story of Leo Pruneau and his designing the basic HB Viva shape in three hours after GM head office rejected the boring proposal put forward.
Good morning!
You know the 1948 Vauxhall 12? Could Road be the name of the model?
I'm just looking for information on this car.
Do you have information or do you know who may have it?
Greetings!!!
What part of the world was the Vauxhall "12" sold in ? 4 or 6 cylinder engine? Some models were renamed outside of English speaking countries.
how is a single cylinder "horizontally opposed" ?
More holes in this video than a string vest.
How come you didn't mention the manufacture in other countries of Viva and Victor series?
Australian HB Toranas to start with :
th-cam.com/video/3QpRD0NKW1k/w-d-xo.html
"plethora" is full to over-flowing, brim-full, NOT merely an abundance or large number of events
they missed my car, The Velox LiP 1948 / 51 The last one designed in Detroit as far as I know
Does anyone remember the Y type?
I had a late 1968 Viva HB GT, dark metallic green, matt black bonnet with air scoops, black interior, 13 inch Rostyle wheels, a 2Litre I think it was ?.
Belt drive SOHC, not the 1100cc Brabham version !.
Twin Stromberg's.
Sold it early 80s for £45 scrap due to rot and a cracked cylinder head.
Value now ??.
I wake up nights in a sweat about still owning that car !.
Ain't hindsight a pain in the a*s* ?.
What reg was a 1968? I had two F reg HB`s and an M reg HC.
@@miketravis6149 my HB was on a G reg, from my old memory ?, Nov 68.
Still have a number plate on the kitchen wall, old style black pressed alloy.
Gave it the wife at the end, she finished it off, some shopping trolley... Bill
I had a GReg Blue HB GT 2 litre... wiring on it was a nightmare but it went really well for it’s time after that I had a couple of FD Ventora - basically an fd Victor with a Cresta 3.3 dropped into it, nice 6 clock dash... and that lovely clean shape.
I have viewed on TH-cam that GT's are either rebuilt or replica's are still being created in both canada & new zealand, I bet this channel is not aware of this.
I use to follow this model in NZ from 1990, but too few exist down under to ever buy one.😎😁👌👍
the name "vauxhall" was from "Faulks Hall"
my dad had a Vauxhall in the early 70's that
had more RUSTICLES on it than the TITANIC....
PSA future?
I liked the late 1950's Vauxhauls
The Vauxhall Cadet was not in 1930. I think you meant to say 1950 as 1930 as you said was not after the 2nd world war.
Also in 1968 there were several motorways.
The "Cadet" (Kadett???) shown in the video is actually a "Wyvern". "Kadett" was model name used by Opel, Germany's GM company.
no vauxhall kadett on google, only opel kadett.
@ 9:15 he calls it an HB "Victor"
60s and 70s Vauxhall's weren't very good engines ,however after in 80 vauxhall nova came out with there much improved engines ,were a revelation a great car solid fast and not bad on fuel .
"Single cylinder, horizontally opposed....."
"Horizontally opposed?"
"Yeah"
?
The commentary between 5.24 & 5.57 has absolutely no relevance to to images being shown, What happened to the 30s when GM Vauxhall really took off? All in all, a pretty awful effort.
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Is he SteveCoogans brother???
Very misleading and inaccurate film - all too common these days - people making films about subjects they know nothing about!
Clever how they finished it at 12:56!
2:56 I thought I was looking at a weird motherboard or something
My dad used to say “Vaux hall the way home”.
They used to say what time is it when a Vauxhall passes a Ford.
Tin past tin.
I used to think time I bought a Vauxall.
I always wanted a Calibra but now I am a poor pensioner I drive a 20 year old Vauxhall Corsa 12 valve 1litre.
Nippy and extremely fuel frugal.
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Single cylinder, horizontally opposed.
Yeah, maybe, with 2 pistons and crankshafts, but I think someone's stuffed up there.
Whats a "Fiarenza"? Has no one vetted this show before it went out. Full of so many mistakes. Yes agree with Yokel, a poor effort. shame...
Agreed! - the film editor was either drunk or ignorant - I'd sack them if it were my company!
Not worthy as a representative of the heritage centre. I wonder if he has heard of either of the names Leo Pruneau or Wayne Cherry, these two designed the HC.
Leo went on to Australia to develop the Torana, not just the 4 cylinder, but 6 cylinder bodied versions, using a longer bonnet & similar body to the UKs hb/hc.
😎👌👍😷😴
Still think the HB Viva looks much better than the MK1 Escort.
The 70s and 80s were the heyday of Vauxhall's
forgot the Victor line, sad
There are some very basic mistakes in this video.
Waaaaaa HB victor ?
An incomplete history of Vauxhall as no mention of the F Type😧
Nor the mighty 30/98!
Cant understand why Vauxhalls have a bad rep. Ive had 2 and the best reliable cars ive owned. Astra and Zafira GSI. theres nothing wrong with Vauxhall.
Andi Sadler , You must be the lucky one, I have foolishly bought 4 over the years all new and convinced myself that I couldn't possibly have the bad luck to get another dud but did every time, my 101 Victor was an absolute dog from the first day and I then made a further mistake by buying a Bedford CF van which would never start and when it did only managed about 15 mpg. Vauxhall GM are shit and always have been,the early ones fell apart and the later ones unrealiable, never ever again if they were giving them away.
@@davidellis279 honestly bro still got the GSI went upto Scotland last week in it 1100 miles round trip, didnt miss a beat.
Andi Sadler. Your a lucky man but I suppose there had to be a good one somewhere but I never found it.
@pmailkeey If your Corsa was anything like a Citroen we owned, then you would have had to pretty much disassemble the whole dash to replace one poxy bulb. Absolute bloody nightmare!
@@davidellis279 Vauxhall have had issues just like any car brand but its in the top 10 most reliable car brand list in the UK, I have had a Zafira (Z18XE) engine and its been very reliable, same thing with the automatic transmission. Vauxhall was the 2nd best selling car brand and now its 3rd.
If you could, would you put a v8 in that 5hp wagon?
It is absolutely amazing when you look at Britain's past achievements and what is left today , nothing , and its hard to really fathom what has happened to that nation that it now just struggles along basically doing nothing , anything of interest is basically done by foreign money and investment , it seems that the Brits will not invest or take a risk to do anything probably because of the past Union anarchy thinking that as soon as something gets of the ground the comrades just come in and destroy it .
Yep, and there are still plenty of misguided Brits still waving the Union Jack expressing that the UK is still a world power. Served my engineering apprenticeship in Coventry decades ago when that city was a hub of auto manufacturing. Greetings from the USA.
"Edwardian toffs?" PatheticVauxhall made some of the greatest cars in the Twenties.
Vauxhall! The most exciting name in cars!
What? Who is laughing?
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my bro had a pa vauxauli great car sexy looking car mean looking grill love the finns
Not quite the same as the Cadillac Deville, but you can see the design cues.😎😁👌👍
No wonder Vauxhall is RUBBISH!!! 😵
I am curious, as a Retired Auto Mechanic.... HOW on Earth can a "Horizontally Opposed *SINGLE CYLINDER ENGINE* actually work!!???!!
the bonnet flutes were copied from a directors bowtie clip
I am sure a lot of effort went into this and it is enjoyable enough but what a disaster in terms of continuity and mistakes. Constantly showing pictures of the wrong cars, wrong era and so on. Please get someone who has a clue to proof it.
May I just comment on the history of the importation of American cars into the UK. Until 1939 Buicks and Packards were imported from Canada (The Oshawa factories). and Chrysler sold so many that they gave them the names Kew, and Wimbledon. The Royal Family owned six Buicks and the Mountbattens three Cadillacs. In 1945 the socialist government of the day debated in parliament post war importations and decided to ban all imports of American and Canadian cars.
Anthony Keaveny. Can you site your source of information? i can find no articles to confirm that the British government of the day did any such thing. However, there are plenty of published archives indicating that American manufacturers pulled out of the UK market to concentrate on the ever increasing demand of their domestic market, and chose instead to invest in British manufacturing facilities that they owned.
The strangest things happen, Canada went onto assemble there own Vauxhalls & local equivalent the Envoy Epic ( a quad headlamped hb ) perhaps thats turning the other cheek .
Thanks for history of car importation.😁👌👍
next video the Lotus Carlton?? nope.
Unitary bodys got rid of longevity.
So we have a ‘horizontally opposed single cylinder’ engine, and a sports car, confirming the Russian connection, that was named after a chap who toured Prussia? You know Prussia was German, not Russian, right? And then we have an HB Victor? No, it was a Viva! 🙄
Opelllllllll!!!!
Horizontally opposed single cylinder, lol that has to be one of the dumbest things said on a TV show.
'Stop getting Bond wrong!'
Shitty Zombies!
Viva not Victor !
Vauxhall built a longtitudal inline four cylinder motorcycle.
Shaft drive !.
Around the 1920s ??.
Last seen by me on the Isle of Man, in the 60s.
Had the characteristic flutes on its petrol tank.
Lovely bike !.
I have photos somewhere, the owner told me it was the lone survivor ?.
Where is British Car industry now !
Fucked over by thatcher and her jews🤣
The HA and HB Viva were absolutely rust buckets very disappointing and heart breaking. I have never made a Vauxhall purchase since then if you want eye watering deprecation unreliability purchase a Vauxhall. So sorry for the report but I speak of personal experience.
No worse for rust than many others and better than some, BMC 1100, mk 1 escort for example. Talking of reliability remember British Leyland or Fords on a damp morning trying to get started? Sorry but I speak from experience.
Now owned by the French as GM sold them off
I thought Vauxhalls were an Aussie based car. Or at least they used to be.
@@chaosdemonwolf1 British car brand, although some models were assembled in Australia for the Australian market. Vauxhall was the British part of General Motors and Holden was Australian part of General Motors. The original Holden Torana "HB" was an Australian version of the British Vauxhall Viva HB Series.
One pronounces it, "Vo'all".
"Vo'all" sounds like a Cockney pronouciation! I've heard it pronounced "VAWKSAWL" or as we Australia called them "VOKSAWL"
@@michaelhalsall5684 That was a joke Michael, and "Vo'all" is the way the French would pronounce it, as "vaux" is the French word for "worth" as is "hall" French for "lobby", and we know that at least half the English language is derived from Latin and later French, right?
LIKE!…
Opels rebadged. So as to look British. My astra gte 16v was built by opel in russelsheim. Cynical.
been trying to boot out its working class roots for 100 years....fords 50 times better.
No idea who this Brendan Coogan is, but he should go back to doing cooking shows or whatever he did before this abysmal effort. Would probably make a good competition to see who can pick the most mistakes made. And to make no mention of the E Type or OE Type 30/98 is a disastrous omission. Utter tripe overall.
Steve coogans brother
@@darrenmeears4667 Ironically, his presenting style is as wooden as Alan partridge's!
Two piston single cylinder I expect. Therefore counterbalanced.
Your pronunciation. Need I say more.
Isn't Vauxhall history ?
From a NZ perspective, Vauxhall were too slow to embrace front wheel drive & unleaded fuel.
Only the 1974 Chevette hatch was competing with mk1 Honda Civic of the same year.
By the time front wheel drive was available, they were no longer imported in NZ and Japanese cars had almost a monopoly over the south pacific.😎👌👍😷😴
GM Sold Vuxhuall/Opel to PSA. Vauxhall still exists today.
rust buckets
This is bloody awful