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10/10/2025 5:22 pm
11/10/2025 9:49 am
I commend your taste in hood ornaments David.....
How long did you drive this car in Ontario?
David Green and Christopher Moroni reacted
11/10/2025 11:46 am
Hi Jack,
I drove it until 1960 when it was hit while parked by a drunk driver on Grey Cup night. I replaced it with a same year grey Vauxhall Cresta which I kept for two years more. It was rear ended at a stop light. Cannot win.
Lois was a great win though. We were married 61 years.
13/10/2025 7:52 am
@david-green Love the history David. Wow a new car at 18. At the high school I attended the only kids who drove new cars, father's owned new car dealerships and let them drive demos. I really like these cars but can't say that I ever saw one back in the fifties or sixties.
Jack Dodds and David Green reacted
13/10/2025 8:47 am
Thanks Bob, I had a luck and spoiled upbringing which I really only appreciated as I grew older.
Jack Dodds reacted
13/10/2025 8:56 am
@bob-jackman I always liked the styling of this era of Vauxhall as well. I thought the British designers did a great job of incorporating what to me looked like American GM styling (especially the rear window) and making this car very attractive, yet still appealing, to the comparatively conservative British motoring public.
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