The Wolseley 1500 Was Compact Luxury For 1950s Britain! (1964 Series 3 Road Test)

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Designed to replace the iconic and popular Morris Minor, the 1500 was Wolseley's return to the compact luxury market after its pre-War Wolseley Ten was killed off. Ultimately, the Moggy proved popular enough that it and the 1500 co-existed; the Wolseley featured the more powerful B-Series engine, a luxurious interior filled with leather and wood, and an upmarket image, but is it a classic car worth owning today?
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Chapters
0:00 Compact 50s Luxury
0:47 A New Wolseley
1:17 B-Series Engine
2:03 Frugal And Compact
2:27 Driving Impressions & Handling
2:48 Luxurious Interior
3:10 Performance
3:35 Affordable Luxury
3:52 Rise & Fall Of Wolseley
4:40 Unsung Hero - Why You Need One!
5:35 The Perfect British Classic?
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@terrytopliss9506 10 ай бұрын

My Dad bought one of these and the only time it went into the garage was for a service. We travelled all round the country and it never broke down.

@Phiyedough 10 ай бұрын

I had a 1960 Riley 1.5 and can confirm everything said in the video. It is pretty much the perfect small classic car. All the good features of the Minor with a bit more power to keep up with modern traffic.

@mrbigarms 10 ай бұрын

Underrated classic without a doubt, nice ones can still be picked up for very reasonable prices. I've had mine for 6 months and absolutely love it!

@ClassicsWorldUK 10 ай бұрын

They're great cars for the money!

@Odnet001 10 ай бұрын

My Dad had one of these in Australia. It was black and had the gorgeous wooden dash. Lovely car

@petesmitt 10 ай бұрын

Assembled in Sydney, they were a common sight for me growing up in Sydney in the 60's - 70's.

@gregcoleman7328 10 ай бұрын

Lovely to see this. When I was a very young boy a grey over cream example was the first car I can remember at home. Then my day bought a second one in old English white. And a Riley 1.5 in a sort of Maroon colour. When the white 1500 retired to my uncles farm yard due to rot, where it sat for a number of years until scrapped, it became a giant play car for me 😃 Oddly enough I was at the Bexhill classic car show recently and there was a 1500 there. The interior smell took me straight back to travelling in our 1500s, exactly the same smell and unmistakable about 45years later!

@ClassicsWorldUK 10 ай бұрын

We're good friends with the Bexhill100 club, glad their show has as much variety as always!

@brucemcintosh5898 8 ай бұрын

I loved that smell. My dad's Austin Cambridge had that aroma!!

@EconoboxGarage 7 ай бұрын

This brought back some memories, thank you! My dad had a 59 Riley One-Point-Five when we lived in England in the mid to late sixties.

@stevieboyNI 10 ай бұрын

Great review of a great British marque. Oh top marks for the houndstooth shirt too Phil!

@jackiron4785 10 ай бұрын

Never rated them when they were running around in the 70s. I suppose they were old cars by then. However, it was me who was not discerning enough. It's a fine model, building on the Minor's good points and making them better.

@davidevans4089 10 ай бұрын

My late father had this model as his first car sometime in the mid 1960s. Very good car as I am led to believe.

@tiguanman1170 5 ай бұрын

I remember travelling in my parents Wolseley 1500, GUR 754C in Maroon B. Really liked the illuminated grille badge as a 5 year old. Lived in Hertfordshire and many trips to Wales and Devon and I remember my Dad sericing it but no breakdowns so it must have been pretty reliable.

@jimmyquinn9639 10 ай бұрын

First car I drove 54 year ago when I was 12 and another good video 🚗🚙🚘👍👍👍⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️👏👏👏👏

@Ribeirasacra 10 ай бұрын

I thought the name was pronounced Wools-Lee. I had one as my daily back in the late 80s/early 90s. It was quite rusty. Nowadays you can purchase a lot of repair panels which oddly were scarce back then. It was reasonably fast but had poor brakes and seats were not great for long journeys.

@roygardiner2229 10 ай бұрын

What a lovely car, inside and out! Elegant, tasteful, classy. Thanks for the video, I enjoyed it.

@asa1973100 10 ай бұрын

Wolseley family right up to the mid 70’s . Dad had numerous 6/110’s an mom had two hornets. Beautiful quality cars that really had snob value to them back I that day

@paulscountrygarage9180 10 ай бұрын

In Australia we got the Wolseley 24/80 which had the 6 cylinder “Blue Streak” engine. My first car in 1974.

@ClassicsWorldUK 10 ай бұрын

Ooh, we'd love to drive one of those!

@willswheels283 10 ай бұрын

Good review as always, the 1500 is a very capable car and so long as your prepared to get your hands dirty it’s can be used regularily. I had a Wolseley 1300 back in the mid 2000’s and found it a reliable car, the rot around an in the rear subframe and sills is what finished mine off as they weren’t as valuable then as they are now, plus I had nowhere to store it.

@jezauty135 10 ай бұрын

Great review and video. Interested to see the boot space.

@autops2 8 ай бұрын

I had a 1957 one as my first car. I sold it after 6 years for the save £75 I paid for it. My Wally had spots and fogs, an alternator and went all across Europe. It had seat belts and normally four petrol pumps in a cardboard box in the boot to swap over when the next one stopped working. Not to forget the harry moss cassette player!

@ClassicsWorldUK 8 ай бұрын

Class!

@robertp.wainman4094 9 ай бұрын

Lovely little car!

@user-sl2vg7ye3k 8 ай бұрын

1:30NZ Had one in west Australia . Loved it but it did not like the heat

@alexandrecouture2462 10 ай бұрын

Nice car!

@thomas05ish 10 ай бұрын

Charming reminder of a gentler style of motoring. Would the 1622 engine be an easy upgrade?

@ClassicsWorldUK 10 ай бұрын

Hard to say, we'd love to see maybe even a 1.8!

@MENSA.lady2 10 ай бұрын

Would I buy this car, Yes,Yes,Yes.

@ClassicsWorldUK 10 ай бұрын

So would I! -Phil

@pietrocalcioli8169 3 ай бұрын

Vetture particolari

@captaccordion 10 ай бұрын

I see that no attempt was made to sit in the back of the world's only 4 door 2 seater! For anyone's interest, these cars evolved rather more in Australia, with 1622cc and tailfins and longer wheelbase. Search for pics of the Morris Major Elite.

@davidjbatley 10 ай бұрын

My mum's first car in 1973 dad paid £35 the garage wanted £30 for it as it was or another fiver for them to write a MOT for it they didn't look at it just wrote a certificate it had Micky mouse on the driver's door and mini on the passenger side eventually went for banger racing when mum got a Austin 1100

@GAME-ps1hc 10 ай бұрын

video good

@johnruggles7739 8 ай бұрын

Posh Morris Minor? More like sawn-off A55 (Mk1). Minor floorpan (as A40 farina) with A55 body panels.Typical BMC cost cutting. Don't matter really - cracking little motor. Senior Mistress at my School had a gorgeous powder blue one upgraded from her A35. Happy days!

@thomasalbrecht5914 9 ай бұрын

Actually, on the continent you’d buy a Fiat 1100 or an Alfa Romeo Giulietta or a Lancia Appia, at the same period... of course, the badges didn’t light up on these.

@1258-Eckhart 2 ай бұрын

😂😂🤣

@mothmagic1 10 ай бұрын

This is the car the Morris Minor should have been from square one.

@SpookyFox1000 Ай бұрын

We had one brand new in 1963……my father said it was the worst handling car he’d ever come across !

@amcc3398 10 ай бұрын

Nah gimme a late minor any day.

@Tawny6702 10 ай бұрын

The Morris Minor certainly won the day, staying in production until 1971 with over 1.6 million sold, small wonder the Wolseley only stayed in production until 1965 and only selling 104,000 with the Riley doing even worse at just under 20,000! Can’t say I liked the look of it either, the Minor was a unique design, the Wolseley however was just an ungainly nondescript shape, kind of an in between not quite Morris Minor / Hillman Minx!