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£6,900 (Est: £20,000 - £25,000)

1923 Vauxhall Type OD 23/60hp Tourer Project

United Kingdom • 6 Sept 2025

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AI Listing Summary

This 1923 Vauxhall Type OD 23/60hp Tourer is a restoration project, with complete mechanicals and bodywork. However, it lacks gauges and has timber in poor condition, requiring significant work.

Condition

3

The car is listed as a 'restoration project' and sold strictly as viewed. The description mentions that the car is complete mechanically and in terms of bodywork, but has no gauges and the timber is in very poor shape. This indicates several mechanical and cosmetic problems, suggesting that substantial reconditioning is required.

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Transmission:

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Chassis No:

OD 595

Odometer:

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Reg Number:

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RHD/LHD:

RHD

• One of approximately 100 survivors • Mechanicals and bodywork complete • Offered for restoration "The years from 1908 to 1925 mark Vauxhall's golden age." - Michael Sedgwick, Vauxhall , Dalton Watson, London, 1981.

Famous by the end of the 19th Century for its marine engines, Scottish engineer Alexander Wilson's Vauxhall Ironworks Ltd built its first automobile in 1903: a single-cylinder, tiller-steered runabout designed by F W Hodges and J H Chambers.

Around 70 cars were sold in the first year of production.

Prior to 1925, when Vauxhall was taken over by General Motors, the firm was renowned for producing handsome, finely engineered cars that put it on a par with Bentley or Sunbeam.

Introduced in 1922, the 23/60hp was a development of the 4.0-litre, four-cylinder, sidevalve-engined D-Type Vauxhall of 1913, which had been designed by the firm's famous Chief Engineer, Laurence Pomeroy.

Production of the original D-Type was maintained during WWI when the model was widely used as a...