November 2024
I can rememnber these large Vauxhall saloons being a familiar sight until they all rusted away by the eighties. Alwatys thought they looked very stylish with their four headlamp front end, coke bottle styling and vinyl roofs on top of the range The Victors were the more basic versions, the VX 4/90 was the sprorting 2 litre version with more equilpment, and there was a luxury Ventora model with a straight six engine. Anyone have good or bad memories of the FD and does anyone still have one? Read more
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Sorry for the late reply, i seldom (read never) look at the classic forum.
Yes i had a '69 Ventora, and loved every second of ownership.
When i got the car it was sat on Michelin ZX tyres and was, putting it mildly, utterly lethal in the wet, swapped those for a set of the recently released Goodyear Unisteel which transformed the car completely.
It was the tractability of that 3.3 6 pot engine that endeared me, engage overdrive top (5th gear effectively) at 10 mph and she'd pul cleanly right through to 110, with more to go, without the slightest hiccup.
The joys of smallish light cars with big lazy unstressed engines.
First mortgage meant selling it sadly, so no car for several months during which time if i recall i went to work on my mother's no longer used old Batavus moped, eventually spotted a Landcrab in need of a clutch for a princely £80 and dropped a new clutch into it on the road outside our new home, something you almost never see these days due to the inability of people to find the bonnet pull.