Even though it looked like a fish on wheels on the outside it was hands down a masterpiece inside! It was more aerodynamic than it looked, its acceleration to top speed was smooth, if slow and it delivered 50 mpg (1.0-liter OHV Kent engine, 40 bhp.) A decade later it was made in the USA with a brand-new body based on the construction tooling from the Maverick and reintroduced for the American market as the Pinto.
As a 15 year old apprentice mechanic in a Ford main dealership I loved these little cars. I got a beat up trade in for £30 and restored it enouch for use after passing my test. I thought I was king of the road, happy days!
My first ever car (FPC686B). It was 11 years old when my dad lent me the £80 it cost in October 1974 - about a month after passing my driving test. It looked pretty good - identical to the Harry Potter model - but wasn't in the very best of shape under the bonnet. Nonetheless I have such fond memories of it, and regularly washed, polished & vacuumed it to within an inch of its life. If it was still out there I'd pay anything to get it back. Times like that are just once in a lifetime (if we're lucky).
My Anglia was a 1960 .... It cost $97 and I drove it for years....Never required any serious maintenance... To this day those are my best motoring memories.
What year model was it!!??? I recall my grandpa having a white one. 1959 I think. He practically gave it away to a man/family in need in 1970 for $35. I cried when he sold it and have never forgotten her. ❤❤❤❤❤🎉
My Dad ordered a new one of these when they were launched, but after waiting months and months because the waiting list was so long, he bought a nearly new Ford Prefect 100E. Then in 1963 upgraded to the new MK 1 Cortina, which was a very nice car in comparison. I learned to drive in an Anglia back in 1969 and have never been in one since.
My first car was a '59 Anglia and it was very cool in it's day. I could shift up and down, through all the gears without the clutch! All of my friends said it sounded like a Hoover vacuum cleaner. Ha! It got me around quite well. I T-boned a '65 Chevy Impala with that car and walked away, but my poor Anglia was done. RIP.
What a truly great car that Anglia was! My girlfriend ( back in the day ) owned one just like the first white model shown, and it was top notch. I sure do wish that car was available today. Cheap to run all day,.relatively roomy and oh so cute. We had a good paint shop paint a BRG stripe down the side and it added that final touch to make this model stand out. Ahhh the memories of driving for fun, in those days,...and no I am not going to make any obvious comments here on the owner!
It was briefly reintroduced with more modern bodywork as the Ka. Later in the USA, with styling influenced by Aston-Martin models, it evolved into a next-generation Fiesta.
my old girl friend had one... we were celebrating our youth in the back seats on a secluded farm track when a horn beeped and a farmer and wife were sat staring at us in their car... i hopped out with me pants round me ankles and moved the car... i'd like to say i hopped back in and finished the celebrations but no.. we clothed ourselves and drove off smiling... great car...
Nice jazzy music, and some nice very period graphics. They emphasised smooth airflow, and for the late 50s a CD of 0.46 was good (the MK 1 Escort and Capri were both 0.4). Nice cars to look at, and nice to drive.
I had a 1962 deluxe - loved it to bits, but anybody remember the fierce clutch they had that needed utmost respect?...once you got the feel right it was fine, but quite a few stalls if you weren't concentrating!
joseph losey went on to be a well known film director and frank cordell composed the soundtracks for khartoum 1966, mosquito squadron 1968 and cromwell 1970.
His son Gavrik produced several films, including Slade In Flame (1975) which was a cut above the 1970s pop group film romps of the time. I saw the surname and wondered if there was a relationship.
My second car, many years ago, such an improvement on the 100e Prefect From memory, huge pistons, tiny stroke, revved really well. Badly needed another gear between 2nd and 3rd Rear window really did not mist up much. Big doors did tend to drop a bit on the hinges. Electric wipers and heater de-mister that worked.
As a commoner Yank of Nordic ancestry from the Pacific Northwestern USA, I may not have any personal experience with the Anglia - but as a life-long Jazzhead, I wholeheartedly dig this soundtrack.
They were sold new in America. The "English Ford Line" was sold through Ford, Lincoln-Mercury, and specialty foreign-car dealers in that order of first refusal for the franchise in any given town.
My dad bought his in 1964, reg AWH503B, in Imperial maroon. Fine car for its time at a keen price. Did 75mph on the M6, any higher would have blown the engine. Superior to the Mini and the Vauxhall Viva. Rust an issue by 1966 - mostly in front seams.
Unlikely. A standard Anglia 105e fitted with the £13 Ford Performance kit set 6 World endurance records at Montlhery in 1962 averaging 83.5mph for seven days and nights including stops for refuelling and driver change
Ne comprai una nel1961, era color azzurro cielo. Lasciavo una Fiat 500 L , mia moglie ed io ci sentivamo come sopra una Cadillac al confronto. Buona macchinetta, fatta per giovani con pochi soldi da spendere. Non mi ha mai abbandonato in panne sulla strada. Laricordo con affetto
Directed by Joseph Losey- amazing. What a fabulously stylish film. The Anglia was a total rotbox but watching this film I want to rush out and buy one!
I found the warm hearted and nostalgic comments of interest here just as much as the video itself. I was just 14 when the Anglia first appeared at Earls Court Motor Show, along with the introduction of the Mini and Triumph Herald. We couldn’t get near the Ford Stands, such was the clamour to see it. It was my first Motor Show and the memory of that journey in the back of my neighbour’s old Rover 75 with my school friends travelling from the Midlands to London via a short section of the newly opened M1 at Luton will stay with me forever. Little did I realise then, now 63 years later just how significantly ‘life changing’ the motorway network was to become.
This is the bestcarvideo I have ever seen! And it's informative, too! I never realised that the Cortina with its externally visible air extractor vents, Wasn't the first car to have "through-flow" ventilation, it was this smartly-turned out Anglia@
My Dad had a lime green one that was slightly tuned . I owned a grey one decades later and 70mph felt very fast , especially with the little drum brakes . Lovely car , my brother also had one as his first car .
My buddy Jack Wright had one of these in Chattanooga, TN. It was his grandfather's and he might have gotten it when he started driving. It was cool and and Green so He called it the "Green Frog".
I remember changing many engines lol Lots of worn tappets too. Rotting wings. I worked at a Ford dealers. Doddle to swop engine for blue recon. Drum brakes, no servo. Take some stopping too
Arrivai con la mia Anglia nel 1980 a Cortina d'Ampezzo, mio zio era direttore di un famoso albergo della città, mi disse di parcheggiare nel garage che era pieno di vetture di lusso, non sapendo con quale auto fossi arrivato da Roma quando uscì e la vide disse "la macchina è parcheggiata bene lasciala stare" ecco cosa mi ricorda questa auto così divertente.
I had a '63 Anglia and that little car was strong! It even pulled fully loaded 5x8 U-Haul trailer with heavy furniture from New Jersey to Florida with not one bit of trouble. I seriously doubt you' find anyone with a cursed Toyota that would try that.
If you were watching the speedometer at the time he wasn't doing more than 10mph anyway, I had a 65 model - BKR624C in silver - I tried putting a 1200 Cortina engine in - it fitted but the engine was crap - so reverted back to the 997.
Got you looking for one on ebay? I don't blame you! Do you know the estate version? Check that out first! Also a real looked, it slopes at the back, and looks like a modern hatchback!
When i was a bit younger, in the late 70s and early 80s, there was a blue Anglia like this roaming about Chicopee Massachusetts. Idk whatever happened to it, one day it was no more.
Oh my goodness! My first car was an Ford Anglia but I I had the larger 1198 cc engine (same as the Cortina) version - Maroon in colour, manufactured in 1962, and I bought it second hand in 1967- Happy memories but does it make me feel old now! P.S. I absolutely cannot abide that sort of jazz music, so for me the video was viewed with the sound muted.
My late grandad had one of these back in the late 60s, he absolutely loved it. The only complaint he had was that it was just too slow on faster moving roads and getting it to stop without turning it into one massive roller skate was a suicide note 😂
Ah, the Ford Anglia. I was car mad as a kid in the late 70s, and you saw loads of Anglias on the road even then. My dad, who had been driving since the mid 50s, reckoned the Anglia had as much go as a push bike - this coming from someone whose firs car was a 1938 Morris 8! Now it's a classic!
Fantastic car.the Ford Anglia.My first car and in that creamy yellow...1962 deluxe model 105e 997cc..By 1964,I modified it,bored out to 1200cc, polished head.Large bore exhaust and a few other cosmetic mods,to was a great little car.Memories!!!! Wonderfull...
This was my first car. Just turned seventeen in the UK. Living with my grandparents we went to look at a second hand one. Broke the rule "don't by a car in the rain". It was my first so ill ever it but a real rust bucket. Gave it to a friend to stock car race. They refused him because of the under car rusting. Notwithstanding, I have a lot of good memories from my Anglia.
I had a 1967 Anglia Estate in champagne gold - one of the last Anglias ever produced. Towed it off a guy's lawn as a wreck and dropped a Kent X-flow 1600 into it with Cortina Mk2 front struts and disk brakes. Fun times.
2:00 The Macpherson strut suspension was way ahead of its time, and it seems that this was the first "Kent" engine, which was later enlarged to become the base engine for the 1971 Pinto they sold here in the USA.
A friend's mother had one new in 1959 and foolishly lent it to two 19 year olds for the day. We (or rather Alex did) drove it from Ayr to Fort William and back in a day just for the fun of it. I remember it as being quite quick and very frugal (40+ mpg). Handling was good for the time - certainly better than Alex's own 1953 Ford Popular (1100 cc side valve engine and 3 speed gearbox - no synchro on bottom gear) which was lethal with more than 2 people in it.
By that year the panel delivery van was dropped from the lineup. It was thereafter restyled in the USA with Maverick-based bodywork and reintroduced as the Pinto.
To Stranger Sound, I think everything works well together, stylish car, stylish owner, stylish luggage, stylish music, (which you would describe as GROOVY)
Remember the reverse sloping rear window, do you? This shielded the the rear window from being obscured by raindrops - but left no room for a parcel shelf, and thus nowhere to put one's nodding dog!
In late 1960’s we were tuning these up with 1500 cc cortina engines and suspension from Ford Classic which had disc brakes. They went quite well. Complete death traps!
If you look closely at the A-panel, just aft of the front wheel arch, you should see the rust starting to form. Seems they all came from the factory like that. Seriously though, great little car. We rallied one for 12 months in the 70s.
Interesting that the boot holds more luggage than many of today's so-called practical hatchbacks. Hatchbacks are definitely a compromise in terms of actual space.
Just imagine spending good money buying a new 9ne to find six years later all the floor rusted out. I had a couple. The last one I rebuilt a 1600 cortina engine and swapped it in. For its time went pretty fast.
Als Oldtimer, entweder diese Kiste, oder einen Opel A-Kadett. Der größte Vorteil dieser nach innen geneigten Heckscheibe wurde leider nicht erwähnt. Durch diese Bauweise bleibt für die hinteren Fahrgäste eine große Kopffreiheit erhalten und der der Kofferraumdeckel kann trotzdem extrem lang ausgelegt werden. 😍😍😍😍👆👆👆👆👆 Viele Grüsse aus Germany
Used as an unloved Police car in Victoria Australia in the early sixties. Powder blue colour era. For menial police work, but the Police still preferred their V8 Studebakers or even local six cylinder Holden's and Ford Falcons.
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Owned one...great little car, fast, nippy and used by the Yorkshire police...
I remember my school pal had an older brother who had a sporty one oh my then he got a Mexico really oh my i always wanted a 3000E Capri and i got one in 1982 the only car i ever loved
"Joseph Losey was still in dire enough straights that he directed a spot for the Ford motor company in 1959 called First on the Road. He films the Ford Anglia like all of the art objects that clutter the frame in his mid-career films, a beautiful frivolity around which empty lives are lived. It’s one of the more strange car commercials you’ll ever see, set to the jazz music he so loved, no dialogue, all the laughter in a vacuum, a car full of people packed tightly and trying to project fun" From The Intruder: Joseph Losey's Artistic Exile, MUBI Notebook
Bought mine, second hand, 1964, 1100cc jobbie! Reg 598 TAU, ran it for 3 years, never needed anything except new silencer, loved it. Then had Mark 3 Zephyr Zodiac 70 XVO. Should have kept the plate! Peter Hunt Nottinghamshire
I did too. I remember how difficult it was to select the gears with that long, wallowy gear lever. How things have changed. But wasn't motoring more fun back then?
I was learning in a Morris 1000 then my dad swapped it for an Anglia just before my test, it was so different I failed. the Moggy would almost drive itself.
When British life still had grace and style. But these cars which I remember well into the early 70s were so small and unsafe compared to what is now considered to be standard.
I remember riding as a small child in my dad’s Anglia. ‘59 model, I think, chocolate-milk brown with white top. We lived on the Texas coast, so it was probably rusted away by 1962. All cars rotted there. I liked it, not that I was a discriminating automotive expert at 3 years of age. I seem to recall that the indeed oversquare engine had a 1.9 inch stroke. Must not have had any torque. Wish I had the car now. When I was about 20, I spotted a Weasley-blue one sitting dead at a house. Wish I had asked about that one, too. Of course they were awful cars. That’s the definition of econoboxes. I love VW Beetles of the period, too.
I think they were great Ford "Angle Box" :) Where worked raced one - Hot Rod Racing we fitted a 1500 Cortina motor Lotus crank twin webber side draft carby's "Those were the days"
