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1971 Vauxhall Victor SL [FD]

1971 Vauxhall Victor [FD] in The Professionals, TV Series, 1977-1983 Ep. 4.01

Class: Cars, Sedan — Model origin:

1971 Vauxhall Victor SL [FD]

Vehicle used by a character or in a car chase

Comments about this vehicle

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stronghold ◊ 2007-10-27 09:34
HAVERTON HILL 1 ◊ 2008-07-17 20:05	These FD Victors had a bad reputation for corrosion and poor build quality. Over 100,000 made between 1967-72 at Luton, Bedfordshire a figure well down on earlier examples. Still they were handsome rather American looking cars but how many survive?
Sunbar ◊ 2008-07-21 12:41	The FD Victor lost some of it sales to the HB Viva I guess another attractive looking car unlike the HA Viva (which also was only available as a 2-door). Before the Viva the Victor was the smallest entry-level car so it was very popular. Therefore the Viva was always going to rob it of some sales. Comparing it with the Ford I owned at about the same time, corrosion was the same problem on all Vauxhall Victors from the first 'F' to the later ones from the mid to late 1970s, like most other cars at the time, but the engines and transmissions were generally reliable if a little dull. -- Last edit: 2008-07-21 12:43:39
Vaux57 ◊ 2009-01-11 20:58	The FD Victor is not such a dull car if you replace the hopeless Stromberg carburetor with a Weber 36/36 DCD (These cars were probably "strangled" from the factory). I run my everyday car with that setup + a 3,07:1 rear axle unit from a Ventora Automatic, I still have plenty of power, even when pulling a heavily laden trailer and I regularily get fuel consumtion figures around 8,5 litres/100 km on the highway. The bad build quality I can only agree with, what a wonderful car it had been if they had developed these cars more thoroughly and enforced better build quality Added 2009-10-07: Have to correct the fuel consumtion figure, should be 7,8 litres/100 km on sustained highway running and 9 litres/100km in general -- Last edit: 2009-10-07 02:06:55
Richard Davies ◊ 2009-01-31 11:08	Jeff had one in Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased).
dsl ◊ 2011-03-03 20:57	SL trim. FYY xxxJ plates issued April-June 71.

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