This is the wonderfully designed 1926 Vauxhall OE-type 30-98 Velox Tourer.
The first ever Car-Fest, brainchild of car-nut DJ Chris Evans, is being held on Saturday 25th and Sunday 26th of August at Laverstock Park Farm, near Basingstoke. For full details, please go to: www.carfest.org.
At the heart of Car-Fest, which will be held at Laverstock Park Farm, home of ’79 Formula One World Champion Jody Scheckter, is a BRSCC hillclimb, where Vauxhall will be fielding its second entrant in the Vintage Seven class: the 1926 OE-type 30-98 Velox Tourer. The 30-98 was Britain’s first 100mph production car, and during its 14-year life became a watchword for performance and durability, vying with marques like Bentley for competition success.
But no hillclimb would be complete without a selection of fast and practical support vehicles, carrying equipment and personnel for the motorsport teams at Car-Fest. And perhaps the most eye-catching will be Vauxhall’s vivid-yellow VXR Maloo ‘ute’ (or pick-up), with its 431PS, 6.2-litre V8 engine, rear-wheel drive and a cavernous 1208-litre load deck. You’ll not miss it, or its distinctive DE51RED registration!
Unfortunately I won’t be able to make it myself so if you do get to go, please make sure to come back to Car Articles and let everyone know how good Car-Fest was!
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