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[Vamps]

Yeah, sadly the big Vauxhalls, from the PB Crestas to the Viscounts, Royales, Senators etc don't have the kind of cult following the big Fords do.

That said, speaking as a long time BL/Rover fan, it is only over the last decade that cars like the SD1 or the Princess have gone from total and utter ridicule to star car status.  But the big Rover 800 - a car I love and have owned various models of - languishes in the ''it's crap'' category still.  How long till that changes, if ever?  Will it take some kind of outbreak of nostalgia for the 90s??

There is at least one big Vauxhall that tops a lot of people's wish lists - yes, even beyond a bronze Granada Mk 1 - and that is the Vauxhall Cresta PA.  On styling grounds alone it is just epic, in my eyes at least.  And nowadays worth a small fortune

Drool............

[Diamond Black Geezer]

Always adored them, hope to get one one day...

 and here's sad car Fact #57 - Ska band The Specials' 1981 hit Ghost Town, which describes the decay of Coventry's Automotive industry, as the previous decade had seen much of BL's and Rootes Group's collaspe features ... a black PA Cresta  (as opposed to a Midlands Car maker) Perhaps they thought it was a Humber Sceptre? 

[Shackeng]

Yeah, sadly the big Vauxhalls, from the PB Crestas to the Viscounts, Royales, Senators etc don't have the kind of cult following the big Fords do.

That said, speaking as a long time BL/Rover fan, it is only over the last decade that cars like the SD1 or the Princess have gone from total and utter ridicule to star car status.  But the big Rover 800 - a car I love and have owned various models of - languishes in the ''it's crap'' category still.  How long till that changes, if ever?  Will it take some kind of outbreak of nostalgia for the 90s??

There is at least one big Vauxhall that tops a lot of people's wish lists - yes, even beyond a bronze Granada Mk 1 - and that is the Vauxhall Cresta PA.  On styling grounds alone it is just epic, in my eyes at least.  And nowadays worth a small fortune

Drool............

Sadly, they, like many cars of that era,, suffered particularly badly from tin-worm, up under the fins and around headlamps IIRC. The lower one is nicely finished in what was then known as 'nipple pink', as only a sucker would buy it.

[Diamond Black Geezer]

Yup, Seem to think it was called 'Royal Glow and Ivory' or something similarly marketing-speak... surely must rank as one of the strangest/bravest sales and marketing strategies in car history... taking a manufacturer which was hitherto known for making cars for Doctors, Headmasters, Bank Managers, Mayors and the like, and producing a car dripping in American glam and glitz, in two tone pink.

Mind, the previous model wasn't quite in the 'staid and dowdy' category, either...

 

[jimbo125]

Wow that Cresta has definitely been lovingly looked after absolutely mint condition and nice to see out and about. Nice one

[Shackeng]

Yup, Seem to think it was called 'Royal Glow and Ivory' or something similarly marketing-speak... surely must rank as one of the strangest/bravest sales and marketing strategies in car history... taking a manufacturer which was hitherto known for making cars for Doctors, Headmasters, Bank Managers, Mayors and the like, and producing a car dripping in American glam and glitz, in two tone pink.

Mind, the previous model wasn't quite in the 'staid and dowdy' category, either...

 

I really loved that model, a Velox of that type as one of my first drives.