On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 10:05:37AM +1000, John Coyle wrote: > Hey Frank, don't knock the Victor! I learnt to drive on one of those, a > driving school car. My Dad had a Vauxhall Velox at the time, so there was > some advantage in both cars having the same peculiarities (like > steering-column shift). The Velox later died when the rear spring came > through the floor pan, butting up against the rear seat squab, and causing > my grandmother to remark, "Ted, this car's not very comfortable." > > Actually the Victor was thought of as cutting-edge design at the time, > looking as it did like three boxes welded together rather than the more > rounded cars of the era. English Victors didn't have the fins that yours > had.
Oh yes they did! Only for a year or so, admittedly. After that a newer model with more typical European styling came along. But the first Victors in the UK looked just like the one in the picture Frank pointed us to. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
