Description From a deceased estate; restored in Australia in the late 1980s; imported to the UK in 2007 and treated to a sympatheic £20k restoration; only 2,000 miles since; a fine example of this rare and top quality Vintage tourer at a very attractive guide price Vauxhall made their first car as early as 1903 and a whole range of magnificent machines were soon to follow, including cars like the mighty 30/98 and the 25/70 which cost as much as a Rolls-Royce and were every bit as well-engineered.

However, by the mid-1920s the market for expensive luxury cars had largely collapsed and Vauxhall found itself in financial difficulties.

In December 1925, General Motors stepped into the breach and bought Vauxhall for $2.5 million, their plan being to turn the firm into a high-volume producer of smaller, lower-priced cars – a strategy that was to save the company during the Great Depression which soon followed, but also caused a lot of adverse publicity in the UK as the press bemoaned the c...