John Rumm wrote:

Yup, you are right, I just realised that by "the one before the
cavalier" he meant in terms of model range, rather than production
dates. Cresta was cav sized but predated it by a few years.

Cresta, the last of the really ugly ones, (though thereafter was not a
great improvement). As a child c1960 I remember a really ugly one across
the road - Velox? - somehow the association of Vauxhall and ugly rust
heap persists in my mind to this day.


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djc