Alvis cars - best of British? Inc TD21, TC21/100 Grey Lady, 12/50 & many more
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- čas přidán 24. 02. 2023
- One of my favourite Alvis cars of all is the TD21 Series 1 fixed-head coupe of the late 1950s, I think these are wonderfully stylish old cars. Saying that, there are quite a few pre-war Alvises that I'd also happily give over garage space to - years ago I bought a Volvo Amazon and while talking to the owner, he casually pointed to a chassis for an Alvis 12/50 just leaning against the garage wall. Fortunately for the sake of my depleted bank balance I didn't ask what his plans for the chassis were, so what happened to it (and the other parts that were for it) I have no idea.
This upload gathers together photos of Alvis cars across the years, seen at car shows since the early 2000s. Highlights for me personally include the aforementioned TD21 fixed-head coupes (especially the Graber-bodied cars), a fine pre-war Speed 25 spotted at a VSCC Curborough sprint meeting a long time ago, a very original Alvis TC21/100 Grey Lady that turned up at a classic car show held at Malvern in 2022 (check out the video on this channel), and the final car to feature in this collection, a proposal for a new Alvis based around the Rover P6 (Rover owned the Alvis company by this time). Please let me know in the comments which of the Alvis cars featured you'd like to take home.
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Alvis in the Haynes museum....woodwork restored by the owner at the time with school desks and recycled furniture, panel work and paintwork done at David Wall motor engineers at Bridge Broad garage Wroxham in the 80's
What a beautiful line up Rick - such fantastic cars. When I was about 8, 60 years ago, a boy at school used to be transported there in a TD 21 Coupe. When I think back to those days, the number of gorgeous cars that people I knew, owned. If only I had thought to take photographs of them ! Cars were very distinctive then, unlike the cars of today ! Thanks for your hard work again - most enjoyable to watch with my morning coffee. Take care 🙂
Alvis, Oh what great cars they made. The TD21's are my favourite but some of those 30's cars are so elegant and those huge headlamps make me think of something very upper class! Thanks Rick for another well pot together collection.👍👍
Alvis has left the garage! 😋 Favourite: 9:42 silver blue TE21.👍
Mine too......
The black Speed 20 near the end of the video, I really enjoyed seeing these cars, great collection, thank you for this video!
I must say that these videos on a Sunday morning are so welcome. I sit watching them whilst I eat my breakfast and get myself ready for the day. I love Alvis cars and remember seeing them in my early boyhood and young teen years. Growing up in the side of Birmingham near the Rover works and in a district on the Coventry side, we saw many transport vehicles carrying new cars, but unfortunately mt only personal experience of any Alvis vehicles was the Stalwart, during my army days. My feelings of the example that was shown is maybe that the owner put a 1964 plate on because that was the year of the vehicle's build. Originally it would have been registered on a special MOD plate that would read 2 numbers. two letters and two more numbers, which would be removed before the vehicle was sold to the public.
Glad that these are of interest
thank you for the Alvis collection.
Alvis as a car company are still producing continuation chassis numbered cars ,as they say " it was just a long time between orders "
Absolutely gorgeous cars ! Some remind me of the early Jaguars of the 30s.❤❤❤
My old head Master in the 60’s had a 1930’s Alvis as his daily runner ! Faded Black paint and a few dents , very cool 😎
An absolutely brilliant video. Alvis was a fantastic car, often over engineered and with plenty of discreet elegance and understatement.
Thanks, I assume you've seen the recent Alvis barn finds video? czcams.com/video/Hek6Q0rU_64/video.html
The TD 21 is a magnificent machine especially the silver/ blue one. Much underrated cares I certainly think.
I love the huge chrome headlights on the earlier cars.
Absolutely wonderful collection of Alvises
. I like the Grey lady 100 saloons the best as they encapsulate all the qualities of a beautiful designed post war car but also attaining a very decent top speed Thank you Rick.
I must admit I was very taken with the grey-coloured Grey Lady at Malvern last year, thanks for watching
The little ventilation flap in the roof was called a smokers’ hatch.
Thanks. A very enjoyable run-through. Personally, it was the Gräber coachworked TC 108G that got me onto Alvis.
I like all the TD/E/F21 series but am beginning to take very much to the Speed 25s ☺️
Another fine collection Mr OCC 👍👍👍
Its so sad that these beauties are no more thank you for so many interesting videos .
Need to review identification of early cars with pressed steel wheels. There were 10/30, 11/40 and 12/40 models manufactured in the early 1920s with pressed wheels. 12/50 generally has bolt-on wire wheels. Noted that somebody has also commented re the FWD.
Now I will be searching for the history of another great British car company, thanks again for the entertainment. Peace be unto you.
You'll find that Alvis has a long history after they stopped making cars.
You'll be pleased to know that Alvis still make military 🪖 vehicles and armored cars 🚗 which are marketed in South Africa 🇿🇦 😅
What a collection of beautiful cars , that second car the coupe is drop dead gorgeous. I wonder how many people had been impailed on the Alvis Hare.
Fabulous video on a Sunday morning!
Thanks SC
Fantastic compilation Rick , many with the Alvis hare mascot but would agree wiith you the TD21 Coupe was drop dead gorgeous - elegance in spades.With Graber coachwork also beautiful .
Another great video. I always enjoy the show when it has some lovely calming music to accompany it.👍
Thanks Alan!
I'm sure it was a mere oversight that caused you to omit the interim step in the transition of coachbuilder twixt Graber and ParkWard in 1956-58 ,when Willowbrook bus/coachbuilders of Loughborough had the contract to build the Graber style bodies on the TC108G chassis . These had more purity of line and were truer to the original Swiss body builder's design,though I believe suffered from structural weakness around the ash framed scuttle areas,and the contract was not renewed in1958,whereupon ParkWard were granted the licence to continue production using steel bodies.
At 23.58secs the 'race car' is a 4cyl Front Wheel Alvis and I feel deserved a little more amplifiation : Some hundred or more were produced between 1925 and '29. In fact a team was fielded at LeMans in 1928,though fromthe reg niumber this does not appear to be a team car. Teams also competed at the Ards TT , but I believe these were 8 cyl s/charged variants , of which very few were built .,
Thanks for the added info, I'm the first to admit that I don't know Alvis in depth so any extra detail is welcome
We had a 1935 sa speed 20 vanden plus 2 door tour
We had a 1935 speed 20 vanden plus black one in New Zealand. Ask me i know alvis.
Original Alvis 58, Wealthly bloke in Surrey had one lighter Green Colour First one I'd seen close up 82' then Nice tho ..
Great vid OCC, but I'm torn, I love the pre war Rileys, but the Alvises????? ................... I'd hate to have to choose
Decisions decisions eh!
@@oldclassiccarUK Yes, but not I fear on my pension!
All for you?