Where is vauxhall victor estate (JMH818B) now?

[fungus]

This Fb victor estate, was originally built as mild custom by a guy named Rob burton from Bedford,
Rob built the green version of the car around 1993ish and grey version a couple of years later minus the scallops.
It then moved on to a guy named john phillips, after john had asked rob to spray the scallops on, john fitted some wider cresta wheels to the rear with 195 tyres and a set moondiscs then sold it to a guy named tony bowers, who then passed it onto adam stockwell, who had it featured in june 1995 issue of street machine in the readers rides section now minus its moondiscs.
After that, it moved to a guy named richard sparkey, who owned it when it got hit by a car outside his house.
Richard sold it to mark decuna (not sure if thats spelt right), who repaired it then sold it on to someone else.
Whoever that was (known as rebelrouser 63 on rods n sods ), then sold it to colin woods in 2000.
Colin woods bought it and built the orange version, fitted with 2.0 litre pinto.
I'm pretty sure colin sold it in february 2010,
I'm still trying to trace who owns it now, colins son says it went down south and was fitted with the big wheels and s turbo.
It came up on ebay in sollihull west mids in september 2011.

The dvla site says the mot ran out February 2012, wonder where it is now?

[SmokeEm]

Looking at it in its orange phase, I kinda hope it's someone's fridge lol

[vulgalour]

It's not an attractive car to begin with, they were never blessed with a pretty face. Personally, I think most of the modifications done are quite good, the headlights, bonnet and front bumper all marry up quite well and don't contradict the styling on the car. The tailgate spoiler helps hide the too-high look of the rear screen and the smooth, bonded look of the front windscreen makes sense of the very high line to the top of it, helping to modernise that successfully. The door mirrors, steering wheel and wheels I'd personally change for something else, they feel more out of place than the other work to me. That said, they too aren't the most offensive thing in the world. The orange phase is very much of its time and done well from the photographs I've seen of it and I'm glad it exists. Taking a difficult body shape and actually successfully modernising it is not easy at all, blending a 90s bumper into a 60s car that well is practically impossible.

This is one of my favourite modified estate cars ever built, it bucks a few trends and has a lot more work in it than a casual glance might suggest. I dread to think how many hours are invested in making all the bodylines on the front marry up so well let alone all the other little tweaks here and there to make it so smooth.

[fungus]

Weather its your cup of tea or not, it is true about all the work, (did anyone spot the flush fit glass), for me though, i actually prefere it in its early styling, but thats me. I'm just trying to trace it, as i remember seeing it first time around at the age of 18, back in 1995, i just love these fb victors, and this one with its history, id love to see what become of it, unfortunatly as no one seems to be posting, it probably is rusting away in a garden or garage somewhere.

[dodgerover]

Have you tried over on rods n sods? I can't even begin to think how many hours went into it in the orange version to make it look as "right" as it does, I really don't know what the correct phrase would be but it works rather than looking like someone grafted on a modern front clip.

[ratchart]

Sept 29, 2016 23:21:19 GMT fungus said:

unfortunatly as no one seems to be posting, it probably is rusting away in a garden or garage somewhere.

All too believable, though I'd love to be proved wrong. A friend of mine used to own another custom built by "Woody" -an Austin Somerset. He sold it To a person who pretended they built it all themselves, then it disappeared off the scene. My friend got an opportunity to buy it back turned it down when he saw how badly neglected it was by the then current owner (also way over priced considering the condition). By all accounts the Austin's still there rusting away.

[fungus]

Sept 30, 2016 12:45:32 GMT dodgerover said:

Have you tried over on rods n sods? I can't even begin to think how many hours went into it in the orange version to make it look as "right" as it does, I really don't know what the correct phrase would be but it works rather than looking like someone grafted on a modern front clip.

I have tried rods n sods, i got most the history from its previous owners there too, ive also put it on the facebook group i put together 'KOOL FB' S' (check link)
I just cant find its current wherabouts/owner.

www.facebook.com/groups/Koolvictors/

[MK2VR6]

Just been looking at the thread on rods n sods. It looked lovely in its earlier incarnations, but sure had a HIDEOUS makeover in the late 90's/early noughties!
Let's hope that someone has seen fit to undo some of the grim latter mods, and give it more of a retro custom look again.

Edit: Doing a bit of googling, I've found the eBay ad for it in 2011. Looks like the poor old thing was/is running a Ford injected 2.1 lump as well

Here it is:

2011 eBay ad linky

[bmcnut]

I think it looked really cool, until it got the full on tango face slap.

[fungus]

Oct 1, 2016 13:58:29 GMT MK2VR6 said:

Here it is:

2011 eBay ad linky

And heres the ebay link from later the same year when it was in solihull, this is the last link i have of the car

www.ebay.co.uk/itm/HOTROD-64-VICTOR-FB-E-F-I-TURBO-ESTATE-INFO-UPDATED-/260836681806?pt=Automobiles_UK&hash=item3cbb13e84e