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Although i never owned one i always loved the look of the Little Anglia, that slanting back Window just made it! Great little Car.

Used to do most of my own Servicing on many of the older Cars i had in my time, nowdays its impossible!
On my old Beetle i was always fiddling with the Engine, although never really had cause to LOL Just idle hands! But they were so easy to work on!

One of my best Cars i thought was the Blue Hillman Arrow, ( Suped up Motor under the Bonnet) really a fast Car in her days , recall dicing with some much larger and more powerful Cars, and beat a lot off the mark.
Then the Hillman Vogue was also a good one ,but not quite as quick! That one had the Peugeot Engine in her!
Cheers

Ford Escort, bought for the wife at the princely sum of 60GBP.
Ran well, but as for stopping well that was another story, you need brakes for that.
Got that fixed, but wait you need lights at night, got that fixed.
Then there I was standing in the pub serving a customer when the phone rings, it's her.

What do I do now she asks, the gear leaver had just come off and I am stuck in second gear.

But I sold in the end to the son of one of my customers, bet we were on our way out to Oz then so no worries.

Young lady was very heavily pregnant and asked the GP where she would be when she gave birth.
In the same position as when you got pregnant he replied.

Oh she said, you mean one foot on the dash board and one leg out the window.

John F
Regards #40 and waxoyl, on the salesman advice, I had my Alfa's professionally done with that or similar stuff, also it was injected into the floor pan an side panels. Alfa's had a reputation for rusting but mine never had that problem,
Rgds
J.A.

#44
John,
I bought an Opel Manta in 74 and had it professionally treated with a system called Ziebart, they did inside all the panels and box sections and underbody, it was like a tough rubbery material when dried.
I ran the car for four years and sold on to another family member who ran it at least for 6 years or more without any rust showing up at all.

Re Post number 40.

Provided underneath the car was solid, a good clean up with a wire brush and painting the same area with Red Oxide before applying the Underseal was a good anti rust remedy of my own that I believed in.

Fouro.

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Originally Posted by Fouro

Re Post number 40.

Provided underneath the car was solid, a good clean up with a wire brush and painting the same area with Red Oxide before applying the Underseal was a good anti rust remedy of my own that I believed in.

Fouro.

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its all down to the surface preparation, I have spent the last 30 years in the corrosion protection business and you can have the best coatings available but if the prep is not done properly then it will fall off. The old style solvent based coatings were a bit more tolerant of not so good preparation, but these materials are more difficult to find now as there are stricter controls on solvents.

Being old, my first two cars both had illuminated trafficators, the newer cars had had flashing indicators, at that time you could buy indicator kits
that enabled you to convert from trafficators to flashing indicators, I did both the Vanguard and the Devon, I only had a small hand drill, the shell's
of those old cars was all of 3/16" thick, it took a lot of time and effort just to drill the holes, once completed it was very worthwhile as the car felt
more modern, today's cars are made to crumple and absorb the impact of a collision for sake of safety, not sure if that works? but the repair shops do
very well from it, cheers.

A lot of us in South Africa used to use Fish Oil in the Panels etc for Rust Protection, it worked very well ,and especially needed in Durban where the Sea Air was really bad /
And another Radiator cleaner was Jeyes Fluid (Spelling??) that really got the gunk out, but had to be careful to flush the Radiator well after use!
Cheers

Fish oil, did the moggies follow you around Doc? :rolleyes: :),
Fords made another car with an inverted rear window like the Anglia Doc, the Ford Classic, was almost the Anglia's big brother,
the mate who was my best man when I got married in July 62, was going on holiday after the wedding, he hired a brand new
62 Classic to drive up to Cornwall, we went for a drive down the North Circular, it was a smashin car, have a look on Google,
I'm sure you'll like it, cheers.

Think i recall that one JFC was it not quite a bit larger than the Anglia though? Called the Ford Consul Classic??
Cheers


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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Consul_Classic

The Ford Classic was similar in appearance to the more popular Ford Anglia, featuring the same distinctive reverse-rake rear window. This feature was imported from the 1958 Lincoln Continental where it was necessitated by the design requirement for an opening (breezway) rear window.

The Consul Classic was replaced in 1963 by the Ford Corsair. Only 111,225 Classics and 18,716 Capris were produced (Including 2002 ‘GT’ Versions). These are small numbers by Ford standards, and probably indicative of the public not taking to the controversial styling.