Will it start or run? barn find Vauxhall Victor first attempt in almost 40 years. 

How brilliant & satisfying it is to hear its heart beating again. Love these old motors, just takes you back to being a kid in the good/poor old days.

Here’s a little tip for you when you’re putting fuel down the top of the carburettor on an engine that’s been stored for years if you use a two-stroke mix it will help to lubricate the bores and help stop most of Any scoring .

Brought back memories guys. The old man had one until '74 and it still ran well. Happy outings to the seaside with fish paste sarnies on the beach lol. 🇬🇧

Look, I can’t think of anyone I know with that much patience boys, you two fellas deserve a medal! 👍👍👍

I had a victor in 1976 a101 great car. they don't make them like that anymore. Good luck with it guys

Love the shape of those FB Victors. We had a FD when I was a kid. ONU 31J was the registration. Felt like my dad was driving an aircraft carrier.

It's a 1964 FB Victor. It has the '64 model front grille.

My parents' first car :) - a '62 Victor Super, 4-speed floor change. Great to see this come back to life.

Really enjoyed your video. Great memories of my dads FB Victor. Amazing it started after so long.

Had one in the 70s 4 speed floor change reg Amy 884a superb!!!!

The essence of simplicity !

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.

Amazing it’s still in one piece. I had one in uk in the 60s that was nearly new and full of rust.

Hi I agree with Colin Barrett, it's certainly a '64 Victor as this grille was only used in that year, and it also has the '64 only sidelamp housings and hub cap centre motifs. I remember this because I was working for a UK Vauxhall dealer when this car was made. It looks a pretty solid car, ideal for restoration.

I had that TOUCH once. Loved it and miss it. Well done .

My father had the estate version .lovely car for the era.

Superb Vid. Brought memories flooding back of my first car. The colour was Moreland Green and the reg was GMG 695B. (Glynn`s Moreland Green ) ..I`ve still got the rear number plate.

You guys were FLOODING that motor with Starting Fluid .

An 1800 ute. Truly amazing. Bloody rusbuckets from new, and that one looks good!

NICE !! This is a 1964 model Victor FB ....

This is great, keep the updates coming. I have a 66 FC 4/90 here in England, that is one solid looking FB.

I had a 1962 used one of these as my first car in 1970. The grill was different and it had rectangular side lights. Underpowered for its weight with a 1500 cc engine, it did me for nearly five years. Loved the front bench seat and column gear change. I still have a couple of pics of it. Its reg number was 4464 MU.

amazing friend, can rise again, greetings success from Indonesia

Yay Someone making videos from SA. Greetings from Elizabeth Grove...I may do some videos of my cars too!

Congrats it finally started 👍👍 I guess it was raining outside that day, few rain sounds audible.

Love your video, my childhood neighbour had one in the late 60's in south Auckland, NZ. He updated to the FD 1600 in 1970-1980. My dad had the HB stationwagon ( Viva ) Fireball Red ( monza red - uk ) also south auckland. I still have a Vauxhall Magnum ( 1983> ) & bought a second HB 4 door with stromberg nine years ago. Incidentally, they are both on Pinterest. I also had an HB 2 door with Zenith carb from 82-84 as a first car, kept for my brother till 86. Currently visiting Auckland last weekend, lived Waikato fifteen years. Keep a follow up video coming.

Brings back lots of memories. Front had bench seats with floor change instead of colomn change also shooting brake hand brake . Get mine in 1968 I think it was called FB Victor 101. Thanks for the memory

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.

Top work, sounds lovely. Nice to see the the valves running without the rocker cover too👍🏻

My father had a Victor estate, lovely car.

Mum and Dad had one as the family car in the early 70s... YBK 592..👌

My dad had one in 69-72 I think, the estate version loved that car, pale grey and dark blue.

My Grandad had one of these. Round about time I was born.

I ran an old FB Victor in the early 80s, BML 784A. She lived outside in all weathers so was sometimes reluctant to start on cold/damp winter mornings, I taught myself basic car maintenance and lived with it😃 that cranking sound is so familiar

It was the starter motor that locked up. Put it in gear, handbrake off and rock the car back and forwards to free it off.

First time watching Texas great video subscribed

Awesome. These cars were rotboxes in the UK not many left.

Sorry I was wrong about the engine. Apologies

Here in the U.K. I learned to drive in my fathers ‘64 Victor and passed my test in it in ‘67. Skinny cross ply tyres and three on the tree with front bench seat.

Nice find 👍🤘

Nice find....thank you

This Victor looks so familiar. Groundskeeper at my high school in Adelaide had one. He was still driving it when I graduated in 1991.

It was parked so long ago that at the time you couldn't even get unleaded. It may have been wise to siphon out the remnants of the petrol in the tank, or just disconnect the fuel line from the pump, so you didn't pump the 40 year old fuel up. I bet that 4 decade old leaded fuel smelled interesting.

Throw in a few 'I'll be dipped' and you could fool me :-)

Love the content .... More please Mark !

Tow start the old girl? Actually, no it's running like a Swiss watch. Do more vids. That was good. Thanks.

Excellent :) Electronic ignition probably a worthwhile addition because if it's found in another 40 years time the new gen wont know what points are

Brilliant love it

Not seen 1 for years the first car I ever drove was a vaxhall viva 1256 HC good motors in there day an passed in a vaxhall nova

The two tone Victor - blue and rust

great video, i had one of those

Notice the grill & boot lid .it is a 64 in cactus green

I had one of those in the 80,s lol bought it with a blown engine replaced the engine from one in a scrap yard.

always disconnect the fuel line if a car has been sitting for more than 10 years otherwise your clog up your carb.

I remember these cars, my first car was a Voxel Velox because mum wouldn't let me by an original 1962 283 Chev Impala with my NZ$1,100. (True story).

Love it!, sat watching this video 'willing' the engine to fire.... And it did!. Nice one. What are the plans for it?....

Awesome 👍🏻

To get a car starting and running after standing so long is unreal last one I did been stood 10yrs+ 2.0 pinto

This reminds me of being a car salesman at a Vauxhall dealership in the late 70's. The old service department of said garage was being sold off as a new one had been built. This was to make way for a new Lancia dealership, so we had to empty it out. In one of the garages was a Vauxhall 20-60. I was tasked with moving it as I was the junior salesman. I turned up with a new battery, a gallon of fuel and a foot pump. Tyres inflated, battery installed and fuel put in the tank, the damn thing started on the third attempt, could'nt believe it. It drove horrible! Keep the vids coming.

Love this Victor, Corsairs and I had an Avenger in the 1980s. Please be sure to do a follow up video. Good work guys.

Aha Australia. PA and PB were assembled in Australia and New Zealamd by the bucket load

Thats a vauxhall victor FB, I learnt to drive in one in 1970.😀

My late Father in law had one of those! 😊😊😊

Sure it's not Positive Earth? Old Pommy cars...

Good one

Well what ever it is I've still got a big burn scar on my wrist while welding a the sill the under seal melted and dripped on to me on one of these

Shorting the battery at the terminals is a good way to cause a battery explosion.

with a carb cleaning and an ignition tune up, it should be OK

Never saw many of these in Australia but where everywhere in New Zealand as a child in the seventies…

Couldn’t see your external petrol hook up was it gravity fed or an electric pump added inline. Will there be a vid of the Victor driving once again. Keep them coming if you don’t mind I enjoy a good tinkering session.

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 !!!!

What about the Mk 1 Cortina behind?

Is this car the british correspondant model of Opel Rekord A ?

Vauxhall Victor 1508cc FB

Oh the memories❤️it

Happy to be NO 300

my first car was a Vauxhall Viva ..my second car was another Vauxhall Viva!! at 16 years old ( 1973 ) in Canada...loved those cars...cheap to cruise in...

love to own that beast

Coffee and chrome next week is it? Top work 👍

So thats what happens when a old-timer mechanic gets excited over a old-timer car...lol

Just needed a bit more choke.......

How has that body survived ?..In the UK I remember the Victor rotted away after a light rain shower.

I don't understand why you gave that poor starter such a long hard workout, trying to start a cold engine with the choke wide open. Was it siezed?

first turn over should be with rocker cover off and spark plugs out

What is to be done with this car?

What's the story on the Mk.1 Cortina?

I’m 63 I’ve never in my life heard of this car. Where are you from, I’m from America. Just wanted to know if it’s a foreign car .

Is that a British Leland engine?? They great engines. And will run for years. Thank you for sharing!

It's not a 1962 FB-Y 1508cc It's a 1964 FB30 1594cc

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

Is that the Victor 101?

Is it raining?

Vauxhall victor 101

That carb is wide open while you're working on it - just sayin'

That raining noise aaaaghhh ! ... I haven't lived in England for 14 years.....

What's all the background static? Oh, of course it's England and it's pissing down rain.

They barely started and ran when new ! Lucas electrics , sure to quit the first time it rained

Your dad's a mechanic? Blimey......

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 🤦🏻‍♂️

Dad's a mechanic ? ? ? Trying to use 30 year old fuel ? Not soaking bores before attempting to spin motor ? Made me cringe lol.