When Save Our Town recently used the word ‘stunning’ to describe the SIXTY plus cars in the Vauxhall Heritage Centre some might have thought we were overstating our case. Probably not!
We were thrilled to learn very recently that the Collection has just been shortlisted for the highly prestigious RAC Historic Awards for 2020 – in the Collections category.
Warmest congratulations to Simon Hucknall, Head of PR and Heritage at Vauxhall and the excellent curation team David Lines, Mark Hancock and, until his recent retirement, Andy Boddy. They should be very proud of their work. Andy features in this video that provides an excellent idea of the scale and quality we’ve been talking about. It doesn’t matter if you’re not into cars. There’s a certain wow factor when you see these vehicles for the first time, a beauty in the designs and an appreciation of how they have evolved from post Victorian engineering through quality and style that competed seriously with Rolls Royce to volume produced family cars and commercial vehicles.
Beyond that, this wonderful collection represents something very special to the town of Luton and the families of the tens of thousands of people who spent their working life there. This collection represents their legacy and that sense is priceless. For decades Vauxhall was Luton and Luton was Vauxhall. That story needs to be told – and it will be.
Ambitious plans are up and running to try to provide a permanent new home for the collection, befitting its quality, within Luton, it’s spiritual home.
Keep up to date with progress as the project evolves at