Modern car makers please take note. This is what we really want. No electronic nonsense, no pointless fripperies, no battery or hybrid drivetrains, and absolutely no indicators that make stupid fart noises when you use them (that's for you Elon). Just good old fashioned straight forward engineering that anyone can understand wrapped up in an attractive package that everyone can appreciate.

An amazing piece of motoring history ! This is from a time when sensible , level headed designers produced cars for sensible, level headed motorists.

Hi, wonderful video of a well decent looking 70 year old car. Whoever looked after this should be proud of themselves. Everything you demonstrated was state of the art back in 1953. I remember seeing those on the road back then, I was 3 years old at that time. My first girlfriend's Dad had one of those in 1968, the ride quality was very comfortable. He later gave it to his youngest son and bought a Vauxhall Victor, that was ptetty cool too, as it was the model that first came out in 1959, although his one was a '62 or '63 I think...quite rare now here in the UK. Thanks for sharing your car with us and take care. Jon B.

Just lovely!

Just found your channel - really enjoying it! You have some bloody gorgeous motor cars! Really impressed!

My dad had a straight 6 Velox 1953 I think followed by 2 Wyverns 4 cllinder. Ran them as hackney cars in rural Ireland when cars were very few. They never let him down. By the way his first car was a model T ford. A present from his older family in Chicago, he was 16 years old !

Lovely cars, but I do remember that they used to rust rapidly!

Oh man that’s a beautiful car I’m jealous 😜👍

Beautiful.

She's an absolute beauty!❤

Beautiful car 👍🏻

Love the 'Hub Nut' reference.

I remember seeing these rusting in people's back yards in NZ in the late 70's.

I love the trafficators (B pillar indicators), and the airplane on the left side air bag cover; as if there weren’t already enough airplane cues in the styling. Thanks for the upload.

Great humour

She's A Beauty ❤

Lovely car Paul, same year of manufacture as myself but in considerably better condition 🤗

'So good you can hardly hear it'!! Brilliant!!

Ours was a 1954 model... we called her the "Green Sheeptruck"... Key in, pull the starter and she would roar into life... OR... the serious secret - Dads metal cigarette paper slipped between the fuses and she would start without a key! Dip the lights with your left foot!!! She was a car

That old Vauxhall 6 cylinder engine with a single carburettor really runs as a 4 cylinder because hardly any mixture gets to the cylinders at the ends. An "uncle" of mine had one, and a chauffeur to drive it! For its day it was a pretty good car, but I knew someone who had the same engine in a later Vauxhall, and had a twin carb conversion, which gave it a bit more grunt. P.S. I once asked Lesley. the chauffeur, what the button on the floor was for, and he told me that it was the blow up button!

For a brief moment Paul I thought you had bought another car. Car does look new I must say.

These were Blackpool Taxis ranked together at Talbot Square. They were black with yellow roofs, and had the California windscreen shades. All gone to Rust Heaven. Remember these Yank miniatures. Many here had a love/ hate view of these and Fords.Very quickly rusted here in the 50’s Vauxhalls as many had used recycled Belgian scrap metal. Notably the later Victor. The later Crestas could literally break their lower floorpan on railway crossings. Told to me by a deceased Vauxhall Dealer. 👍🏻🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

What a beauty. It sill has the original number plates too, not remade modern copies. That suggests the car has never been out of registration since new in February 1953.

A real beauty mate!

I had a big laugh about it. Thank you. Reall old skool humor.

Lovely example. Funny old days - Ford wouldn't give you electric wipers, whereas Vauxhall did, but Vauxhall wouldn't give you wind-up windows, whereas Ford did. No wonder many turned to the bigger Austin and Morris cars. The updated Vauxhall Velox a couple of years later became heavily overdone with excessive chrome ornamentation on the bodywork. So for me, the 1953 version looked a lot tidier externally.

That is my kind of 2023 Vauxhall Velox 😊 it was the “4 foot powered brakes” that sealed the deal. The funny thought is someone in 40 years time will find the video and think… “was that what people were buying and driving in 2023?” 😂

"Brand new" 1953 Vauxhall Velox...a beauty for sure.

PS; thanks a lot for the video. Colin UK 🇬🇧

Mr Father had a black one with red leather seats. Have not seen one in a very long time.

What a nice tidy example. Given that Holden were still building the FJ, the Velox must have looked very out of place and futuristic as it came down the line along with them. I assume that they sold for a premium over the equivalent Holden, especially as the Velox was more modern looking and better equipped.

Very secure with sliding windows and ign system that may take 30 sec to hotwire

i vagualy remember these a lovely car in its day.

If you switch on the hazard warning, would the trafficators go up and down fast enough to make it fly?

My first car was a Wyvern, the 4 cylinder version.

I can't imagine any run of the mill car today lasting 70 years

Thats just lovely ,,, saw a Similar car in " A place to call home " I think , for me it just illustrates How totally Soulless new cars are , VW group in particular .... Thier range are like Quadruplets ...horrible ... Love it and Show it off . Lee

Good stone age technology still does the same As what a modern day car can do from a to b not much to brake

We had a 1954 Velox . It had the forward opening bonnet. Not your side opening one I kid you not, dad painted it the exact same colour as yours is. I have never seen another in this colour. What is it called?.?

Love it, 0 to 60 by next Wednesday or so.

Richard Attenborough of the automotives!!

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Ah when life was more simple and basic to your need's. I had a Vauxhall Wyvern and a Ford Consul mk 2. Life and cars are today overly complex.

He's a case 😂😅

These cars were built when people could drive.

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Re all the modern crap you were on about - who needs it? Nice.

And ULEZ compliant

Easy for someone dishonest to drive away

A mate of mine had one of these