Vauxhall VX 4/90 FE

[reddiesel]

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Beautiful Americana feel to this VX4/90 . I lived next door to a bloke back in Glasgow who owned the earlier FD Version and looking back I think Vauxhall did a better job with the coke bottle shape than Ford did with the Cortina . To my young eyes they just looked a bit flashier and more of a "bird puller" with that extra chrome . Incredibly cheap money for the later car above and much has clearly been spent bringing her to this condition . Much nicer without those awful mirrors and just a nice chrome one on the drivers door but a lovely looking thing nonetheless .

[TonyRPH]

That's nice, but those mirrors...

A pity about the rear bumper too...

[droopsnoot]

It's a nice looking car, but my teeth itch because the indicator units are on the wrong way around - the sidelight should be on the outer side, but that's a common mistake to make and very easily rectified.

[reddiesel]

I particularly like the expanse of the glasswork and the great visibility with those thin pillars which they were noted for back then . I think its fair to say that the design still looks quite fresh especially when viewed against the later Carltons

[aeropilot]

Shame its a slushbox.......(although that in itself must have been rare for a VX4/90 back in period)

[LuS1fer]

We used to live near Ellesmere Port and my mate's father was a foreman there so he had a brand new 1974 bright yellow VX4/90 FE and took us boys in it, up to beyond the magic "ton". Looked great with its rostyles.

When he changed it, the following year, it was for another VX4/90 but this time in dark metallic blue and it may have had a vinyl roof. regardless, it didn't look as good as the yellow!

[monthou]

LuS1fer said:

My dad turned up with something very much like that sometime in the late '70s. It had a vinyl roof and a boot rack and looked amazing to an 11 or so year old. I was gutted when he gave the boot rack to our next door neighbour the same day!

[Mr Tidy]

I always thought they looked good too, and the bonus now is Vauxhalls tend to be cheaper than Fords!

[skeeterm5]

For me the FD is a much better looking car, I never really liked this version.

[Hol]

Not the bigger VX, but my 15yo self always wanted a Firenza coupe that was made up to look like a mini Mad Max car.

I was totally deflated when I priced up the cost of parts in the back of custom car magazine and realised my Saturday job only just covered my weekly Go Karting addiction.

[reddiesel]

skeeterm5 said:

For me the FD is a much better looking car, I never really liked this version.

More in proportion to the Mk3 Cortina than the later FE but to be fair I believe the FE wasn't that much bigger though it looked it .