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Another odd unit from the olden days. No, it isn't American after all. It sure seems like it wanted to be though.

Have fun
Steve
 

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Looks like a new Russian model! Zil, Zim, Ziv??? /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/crazyeyes.gif
 
Doug beat me to it... But I knew that one from first glance...

That early Vauxhall Victor (1957/61) looks very similar to a 1955/56 Chevy, and of course they are the same parent company
 
Another "open and shut" case! I am amazed. I have never seen one of these. Perhaps they were only sold in certain parts of the US.

Have a nice day /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/cheers.gif
Steve
 

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Or someone brought it across the northern border! /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/grin.gif
 
They were a reasonably common (or at least not rare) part of the landscape in BC (don't know about the rest of Canada) in the 60s. Around Victoria (where I went to high school), British cars were pretty common in the 60s and 70s. I'd see Humbers, Hillmans, Vauxhalls, Austins, Morrises, Wolseleys, Rileys, etc on a regular basis. Our vice-principal drove a Vanden Plas 4 L to school every day.
 
My first plastic car model was a Victor hardtop.
I think I only used one tube of glue putting it
together.

- Doug
 
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