Welcome To The Vauxhall FD Register

The Vauxhall FD Register,

14, Boteler Cottages,

Gore Lane,

Eastry,

Kent, CT13 0LQ.

United Kingdom

Tel: 01304 617745

Mob: 07979 001225

"About The Club"

WHY A VAUXHALL FD REGISTER

The Vauxhall FD series cars were produced in numbers exceeding well over 200,000 units. Today the surviving number is probably one of a far smaller percentage of the original figure than that of their contemporary counterparts, such as Ford's Cortina and British Leyland's Triumph and Rover 2000 etc.

The surviving number of FD's worldwide can only be guestimated, however, the number of known cars in the UK can be safely estimated to be in the low to mid hundreds, that is if the cars that have recently disappeared, and in some cases those recently rediscovered are included in the total!

Lost and previously unknown FD's do still seem to be surfacing (although we are still talking single figures per year) and long term owners are starting to pass their cars on. Because of this, some of those "lost cars" are being re-discovered.

FD's in any guise are part of a rare breed nowadays, whether it be an early base model Victor or a top spec Ventora II example. You could probably also say, that in making another comparison with an FD's contemporary, a 1971 Ford Cortina mkIII GT (admittedly a car of probably a substantially higher production figure) is more likely to have survived in greater numbers than the almost extinct VX4/90 from its entire production period! This perhaps is not a fair comparison for that reason of unequal model volume, but the point being made is that of two similar looking cars from the same period, one has become virtually forgotton due to its scarcity for a much longer period.

WHAT ARE OUR OBJECTIVES

The main purpose of the register is fairly self explanatory in its name, in as much as aiming to unite all surviving examples worldwide. As well as this, in the opinion of most of our committee and our members, an FD is an FD regardless of its condition, restored / tatty / original / non-original etc.

Members come and go as do the cars and as these cars pass through our register they are stored on our database.

The FD has never quite seemed to "have its day" as yet, and compared with similar cars of its period of which some have found increases in value thanks to magazine and TV coverage, the FD has been left behind perhaps? Although more recently Red Victor II is the worlds fastest street legal car and the FD was chosen for a 118-118 TV ad!!!

FDs are few and far between. The fact that original scruffy examples are still out there means that restoration projects are still a viable proposition, and in the case of the discovery of potential "donor cars", FDs that may be currently undergoing restorations may be in need of parts from them to complete the job! In the case of FD values, top condition examples should be "up there" with their contemporaries, the lesser condition cars are on a par with most other equivalent makes which always seems to have been consistent since people began terming cars as "classics". Without the FDs chance to rival others in terms of value the FD will possibly continue to decline in numbers leaving only a small group of ultra-keen supporters preventing extinction altogether. We need to even the balance, how we go about this is a question needing thought to give the answer. Generating interest from the FD unaware out there would certainly help. Assuring the remaining examples are not unnecessarily reduced in numbers would definately be a positive step towards this.

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