A great video, I passed my driving test in one of these 62 yeas ago it still the plastic covers on the seats. Thanks for the memory n keep up the good work.
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.
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.
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.
Oh how I wish I was with you. Love that sound . Worried why not much oil from the rockers as you should be swimming in it. Of course thats how you adjust the tappets. With the engine running! Great Video and well done.
FB30 is the 1600 1964 like this one. FB31 was the twin carb and disc braked VX-4/90 FBY was the slightly earlier 1500 with a bigger grill design at the front, 62/63
Not sure why I get such a perverse sense of pleasure watching a few blokes coax a long-dead car engine made 25 years before I was born back into life. But I do.
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.
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!
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.
This was my first (second hand) car circa 1974 . Light blue, column change (3 speed?)bench seat upfront. The seller, a reasonable older gent, addressing me from his front door - took a fiver off the asking price as an inducement to sale. Price after discount - £30. I should have put a tin tray under the engine, to catch the copious flow of oil discharging from the crank seal - and that was without the engine running ! My associates, rather unkindly, dubbed it - The Shitehawk. Sadly, my inability to keep up with it's thirst for fresh oil - did for the engine. One night out, on the home run, the car suffered from a severe deficiency of oil, and subsequent engine overheating, causing terminal damage to the crank bearings . Although we managed to nurse the Victor home - the damage had been done - this turned out to be her final journey. Shortly after, I rolled her down the hill, to the breakers. Strange to say, I went on to two further, later, Victors.The model I really lusted after, was the VX/490 - but I never realised that dream. Thanks for the video Mark Cooper
Why is he putting his hand over the throat of the carb? That is forcing the old ass fuel through the jets and opening them up, allowing that shit fuel to be drawn in 🤦🏻♂️
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.
Oh for the days of when it was possible to work on cars. If you had a spark, fuel and it wasn't seized you had a fighting chance to get an engine to fire.Nowadays it's computers and sensors I wouldn't know where to start !!!!
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.
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.
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.
