*Notes
The future
Vauxhall Velox tailfin and whitewalls. I think the car in the reflection is also a Velox, but an earlier model. This is the PA 1957-62 model, heavily influenced by US models of the '50s, but the exotic styling never really took off in the UK.
Note also the 'pseudo-wraparound' rear windows. Vauxhall pioneered curved windscreens following US technology, but it was initially expensive and hard to make in large sheets, so they reserved the large one-piece wraparound screen for the front, using smaller pieces for the rear to keep costs and manufacturing complications to a minimum.
If Vauxhall spent as much on engines as they did on styling, it's possible there might be more Veloxes around these days, but the engine was an unremarkable six-cylinder, and as the bodywork featured only basic rustproofing (i.e. paint), and like so many other cars of its era it rusted rapidly.
For some reason Vauxhall never seemed to have quite the market slice that BLMC or Ford had until much later, a case of style over substance perhaps.
The future
Vauxhall Velox tailfin and whitewalls. I think the car in the reflection is also a Velox, but an earlier model. This is the PA 1957-62 model, heavily influenced by US models of the '50s, but the exotic styling never really took off in the UK.
Note also the 'pseudo-wraparound' rear windows. Vauxhall pioneered curved windscreens following US technology, but it was initially expensive and hard to make in large sheets, so they reserved the large one-piece wraparound screen for the front, using smaller pieces for the rear to keep costs and manufacturing complications to a minimum.
If Vauxhall spent as much on engines as they did on styling, it's possible there might be more Veloxes around these days, but the engine was an unremarkable six-cylinder, and as the bodywork featured only basic rustproofing (i.e. paint), and like so many other cars of its era it rusted rapidly.
For some reason Vauxhall never seemed to have quite the market slice that BLMC or Ford had until much later, a case of style over substance perhaps.