Help Facel Vega, Facel 2

[tonyvid]

You've been a busy chap! Nice collection to have, and good that they are your knowledgable hands.

Talking of stub axles - does anyone have any good ideas to remove the rear hubs from a Facellia rear axle? The discs need replacing but the hubs are stuck on fast and no amount of pullers/lots of heat/swearing is having any effect!!

[facelman]

tonyvid said:

You've been a busy chap! Nice collection to have, and good that they are your knowledgable hands.

Talking of stub axles - does anyone have any good ideas to remove the rear hubs from a Facellia rear axle? The discs need replacing but the hubs are stuck on fast and no amount of pullers/lots of heat/swearing is having any effect!!

They can be difficult.I have the factory puller so I have not had to ressort to cutting the hub up yet ! I suggest that you get a Jaguar specialist to do it for you with his salisbury puller.

[bencollins]

Think i mentioned this before but if not........i worked with Jean Daninos the French Enzo 1 on 1 together in an industrial estate shed on a moor above Lisbon in 1990 for six months. Top bloke, loads of energy, scared me to death driving in his Peugeot 505 GTI driving around pallets in the yard (just coming back from lunch not a demnstration). He was about 88 at the time and still developing cars! Glad you folks are enjoying his cars.

[tonyvid]

facelman said:

tonyvid said:

You've been a busy chap! Nice collection to have, and good that they are your knowledgable hands.

Talking of stub axles - does anyone have any good ideas to remove the rear hubs from a Facellia rear axle? The discs need replacing but the hubs are stuck on fast and no amount of pullers/lots of heat/swearing is having any effect!!

They can be difficult.I have the factory puller so I have not had to ressort to cutting the hub up yet ! I suggest that you get a Jaguar specialist to do it for you with his salisbury puller.

Thanks for the suggestion, I'll pass it on to my father

[facelman]

tonyvid said:

Thanks for the suggestion, I'll pass it on to my father

I do have rear hubs if you DO scrap the old one !

[tonyvid]

facelman said:

tonyvid said:

Thanks for the suggestion, I'll pass it on to my father

I do have rear hubs if you DO scrap the old one !

That's good to know!

[facelman]

tonyvid said:

That's good to know!

A Facel II [ B156 ] RHD and an excellence have been burnt out.

[facelman]

facelman said:

A Facel II [ B156 ] RHD and an excellence have been burnt out.

Further to this sad comment I have to report that these two Facels belong to our old friend Jean Claude Bouquillon who is in an induced coma at a Lyon hospital.He was taken to the specialist burns unit at Lyon suffering from 95% burns.It seems that he and a friend were trying to start a Facel with petrol and easystart after a long layoff.His friend managed to drag him out but the garage and all in it was destroyed.Many of us have poured petrol down a Holley to start a V8 Facel.Check YOUR fire extinguishers please.

[tonyvid]

What a dreadful thing to happen

[theadman]

That's terrible John. I'm sure everyone on this thread would wish him well.

[facelman]

theadman said:

That's terrible John. I'm sure everyone on this thread would wish him well.

Jean-Claude Bouquillon passed away this afternoon [Wednesday 15 July ] With 95 % burns it was really inevitable.This is a very sad day.

[Bob CD]

Devastated to hear the news of Jean-Claude. I didn't know him personally but knew that he was a massive Facel fan. He was in the process of trying to start a recalcitrant car that had been left for some time, and lots of us have those. May such an accident never be repeated.

[d.wilde]

Someone can identify this Facel II ???
Pictures were taken 30 years ago at Garage ACP near Paris. The salesman JFP said to me that this car was sold to a french man who planned to restore it. He don't remember the S/N.

RHD, sunroof, solid wheels, black/black.

3 RHD cars were sold new with factory sunroof

- HK2A129 - Facel Club historian
- HK2A151 - ex JC Bouquillon now in Jaguar Cars collection.
- HK2B160 - Ringo Starr

Edited by d.wilde on Saturday 29th August 13:12

[Bob CD]

Wilde, I'm pretty sure this is HKA129. I note that it was registered 527 EYO and has been in France since 1980. It was originally bought by Patrick Hall of Hall Engineering Ltd. He had a builders’ merchants, possibly sold to a well known company in the UK called Jewsons. He had bought the last RHD HK500 and replaced it with the Facel 11, registered V28, in Dover grey (sometimes seen as a euphemism for primer) then painted by Fulfords and black. Automatic. It has been 636XPA and V28. It had a sunroof. Owned in 1990 by H Dufour in France. I note that the registration has been blacked out but perhaps you have pictures which will confirm these registrations.

[d.wilde]

Thanks Bob, it was my first thought. Do you have a recent picture of the car ? Another one, almost impossible to identify. Spotted in London in the sixties. In front of the shop, something like "Gloriette Patisserie".

[CATD8H]

d.wilde said:

Thanks Bob, it was my first thought. Do you have a recent picture of the car ? Another one, almost impossible to identify. Spotted in London in the sixties. In front of the shop, something like "Gloriette Patisserie".

What a lovely picture, my pal at school's dad had one of these back in the day they didn't have the value by then and it was used as a tow barge to bring back purchases from car auctions.
I always admired the double curvature windscreen which looked very stylish....were they bought in from another manufacturer or purpose made for Facel?

[williamp]

Lap63 have a hk500 for sale

http://www.lap63.co.uk/#!fv500/c5n8

[d.wilde]

HK2A122 ex Dick Wilkins. I remember that this guy ordered at the same time the Jaguar E-Type Lightweight "2GXO" for street use.

http://pendine.co/portfolio/1963-facel-vega-facel-...

Edited by d.wilde on Wednesday 2nd September 19:13

[facelman]

Three images of the ex Elvins car.As I bought it with reg PPP22,then with the 666 number when I took PPP 22 for my Facel 6,then in the far east.

[facelman]