1981 Vauxhall Viceroy Limes cafe trip

Its an old vauxhall experiance tells me the tide mark may be covering stuff I do not want to find

Brilliant ;D

I feel slightly less alone in the world.

I have a 2.8 Auto Royale retrorides.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=readersrides&action=display&thread=100996&page=1 and it worries me when the few remaining Viceroys or Royales come up on Ebay and find no takers even at low prices.

I saw this one listed twice recently and am glad someone has bought it.

They're such a rare bird, the old Viceroys.

Hope it doesn't give you too much grief.

PS nice to see it charging healthily with good oil pressure and a nice low idle

very nice - not sooooo crusty for an old vauxhall so you definitely did well with this one.

Plans? - It's RR, so there's ALWAYS plans

This is the one from Ambleside, isn't it.

I've got a sneaking suspicion - and it may be wrong - that I know that car. Back in the 1990s, when I worked in Kelso at our publishing company, one contributor (and damned if I can remember his name now, but I'm fairly sure it wasn't the man who wrote crosswords for our magazines, but someone else - most likely a photographer specialising in landscapes or nature in some way) came to visit. I had my old VX1800 and Manta I think, and obviously was very interested in the Viceroy. He's the one that told me that they were the "last of the White Cross Vauxhalls".

If it is the same one, and geography and statistically it probably is though the mileage suggests otherwise, then it was absolutely immaculate when it was 14 or so years old.

I would have though a Manta 2.0 5-speeder would go in one of these, the 6 pot engine is just an extended 2.0 CIH so I bet its not too horrendous a conversion. I suspect anything that can be done to save a few mpg’s will be worth doing, the 2.5 carb-fed straight six can’t fail to have fairly dire fuel economy

Another thing to consider in the choice to make so many badge variants was that places like Finland etc. had, er, Strong Feelings About Germans in the postwar period. So where Opel may have been the most logical brand, actually Vauxhall did far better.

Lovely , really rare !

I think I can only ever remember seeing one at Billing the last few years , this one :






Good luck with it

These were the rear end of the carlton including live axle but with 5 stud drums and the front end of the senator/royale.

The dash I think is diffrent to both but the rest of the trim is a mix of the two models, I belive just under 2300 made in about 2 1/2 years of production. Yes it was the last white cross car they made which makes it intresting just for that.

Plans Wheels, they are 5 x 120 so BMW fitment and I have the old ac schnitzer 17s of the E23 I had. A 5 speed box would be nice and has entered my thoughts and maybe I bit of tidying. Had wondered a few times about a 3.0l 24v in the front as well but will propably leave it due to the low mileage of the engine in it.

Will be taxing it on saturday as long as the documents turn up in time so will take it to the limes cafe meet sunday.

Ive got a 5 speed gearbox that will fit on ebay at the minute. I reckon find a rotten 12v Carlton GSi/Senator and swap that in. Should bolt in, whereas on a 24v the exhausts etc are different iirc.