Vauxhall styled the PC on the coke-bottle look, giving Britain a slightly smaller Chevrolet Impala with a Viscount badge on top.
Median 100 hp across 350 similar cars
Lead trim: 2.7 PC40 six-cylinder (export only) · up to 140 hp
Vauxhall Cresta PC / Viscount1965–1972
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FactVauxhall styled the PC on the coke-bottle look, giving Britain a slightly smaller Chevrolet Impala with a Viscount badge on top.
The last of the series, the PC, was introduced at the London Motor Show in October 1965, designed by David Jones. No longer offered as a lower-specification Velox version, it was designated PCS (standard), PCD (De Luxe) and PCE (Executive), the last of these having its own name, "Viscount". It was a different car, larger and styled with the coke-bottle look that would also be seen in the FD Victor series, resembling a slightly smaller Chevrolet Impala and the second-generation Opel Kapitän/Diplomat, and it was similar to the Australian Holden HR but larger and better trimmed. It featured the 3.3-litre straight-six engine with 140 hp SAE gross at 4,800 rpm for its entire seven-year production run, and 53,912 were made.
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Trims & Figures
2 published trims in the catalogue. A blank is a figure not recorded, not zero.
| Trim | Years | Engine | Power | Torque | 0–60 | Drive | Gearbox | MSRP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2.7 PC40 six-cylinder (export only) | 1965–1972 | 2.7 L Inline-6 | 113 hp | — | — | — | — | — |
| 3.3 PC51 six-cylinder (140 hp SAE gross) | 1965–1972 | 3.3 L Inline-6 | 140 hp | 176 lb-ft | — | — | — | — |
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Photographs
Vauxhall styled the PC on the coke-bottle look, giving Britain a slightly smaller Chevrolet Impala with a Viscount badge on top.
Vauxhall never built a Cresta estate in-house — coachbuilder Martin Walter of Folkestone grafted on a steel-framed glass-fibre roof extension and tailgate to make one.
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840 Cresta Es were built at GM's Petone plant in New Zealand in 1956 alone — a figure that survives only because a local owners' club found the factory ledgers.
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