Attention old car enthusiasts!

Or even young enthusiasts that like old cars!

Last weekend I went to the Amberley Museum and Heritage Centre's Autumn Vintage Vehicle Show. And a very splendid show it was too! There were over 200 vintage vehicles there and the sun shone brilliantly all day. I took loads of pictures and have started to put some on Flickr. This is the first one and, if anyone is interested to see the rest, clicking on the picture will enlarge it and take you to the others :


D7733. 1956 Ford Zephyr Zodiac Mk.1 at Amberley. by Ron Fisher, on Flickr

Plenty more still to come so I hope that they are of interest!

 

Loved the picture of the Zephyr Zodiac Mk 1 was there any old 100E models there prefect/anglia/popular, would love to see a photo if posible.
I learnt to drive in one then bought a popular 100E with a side valve engine marvelous.

 

The same type of side valve engine that I have in my Lotus 6 kit car though mine is the 105E

Regards
Chris:

 

Our first car was an Anglia 105E and the big selling point was that this was the first small Ford with an OHV engine I'm sure. ...... Quick Google search ...... "The Anglia 105E Engine featured overhead valves and “over-square” dimensions with bore and stroke measurements of 80.963mm x 48.412mm respectively".

 

Your right on the ball with the 105E OHV engine after my popular 100E i bought an Anglia 1200 which i believe was the 107E OHV engine then after that i bought a Mk 2 cortina with the new X flow engine ah those were the days when you were not scared to open and repair an engine unlike the cars today or is it that i have got older!

 

I'm glad that my pictures of the classic car event at Amberley are of interest. I have just added a further selection and, funnily enough, there is a Ford Prefect and a Ford Popular amongst them. The pictures range from 1928 to 1959 and this is the first one; as usual, clicking on it will enlarge it and take you to the others :


D7748. Morris 1000 and AA Box at Amberley. by Ron Fisher, on Flickr

Still more pictures to follow in the fullness of time.

 

Loved the pictures, loved the sit up and beg ford pop and the red prefect with its fixed external sun deflector and get those wing mirrors, looks like it was a nice day judging by the sun shadows. Thanks for sharing them

 

I marshalled for the Vintage Sports Car Club sprint @ Goodwood on Saturday & was fortunate to be at the chicane, it was amazing watching these guys fling their lovely vintage vehicles about as if they were modern sports cars. Thought I'd share these photos with you - note they are not mine, they are taken by an official media photographer:
VSCC 2

 

That poor little Austin 7 had blown something.
My very first car (1958) was a 1925 Austin 7, I bought it in Manchester, drove it over the Pennines to Dewsbury. It didn't need much work doing on it but I soon realised it needed a new set of cross ply tyres. I was only a young fella, not earning much, and I couldn't afford the tyres so I had to sell the car. I was gutted, I liked that little car, I keep looking on t'internet but people are wanting silly money for them these days. I did have a little split screen Morris Minor recently, just for a short time, grandchildren loved it, Doris the Morris.
"Can we go out for a ride in Doris grandad"?

 

25th April 2010.

I've had the Prefect for six years, and been involved with 2968 since Barry days in 1970!

 

Lovely evocative shot!

 

April 2010?? That's taken 50 years ago.
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Only joking, it's a grand sight. :thumb:

 

There does seem to be a railway/ old car carryover with in railway circles, just in my department, we have someone who has an old triumph 1500, and another person has a Morgan, Me, i own an old crossflow engined Dutton, i think its probally because older cars are user friendly, compared with modern cars, . My first car was an 1200 Anglia super, but as Victor sayes nowadays, you have to pay silly money or rebuild a wreck if you want one, a bit like steam engines

 

Ah the 1200 anglia the 107E i believe, i had one of those i put 5 1/2 J"s on the wheels a bag of cement in the boot it held the road like stink.
Racing up and down the Kingston by-pass, this was all in my youth of coarse, as you get older you see the dangers.

 

The 107E was the final version of the Prefect, which following the introduction of the 105E Anglia was fitted with the same new OHV engine. Thus you had the old 100E body shape with the new OHV engine. It also had the new 4 Speed gear box from the 105E Anglia. Ford's main reason for offering this model was driven by the fact that the new 105E had no 4 door variant and it was a cheap way of keeping a 4 door offering on the market in the small car range. It did not sell in very high numbers as the car buying public considered it's styling to be rather out dated when compaired with the new Anglia.
The new Anglia with the 1200cc engine was in fact designated 123E by Ford.

 

My second car was a Ford Anglia 105e, much modified in the late 60s with a brand new Ford 1600GT crossflow engine & 2000E gearbox, what a car, didn't look much, but it flew.

 

Our first car was a 1961 105E Anglia in dark blue. My Dad had whitewall tyres fitted and a rear bumper extension that allowed to spare to sit upright behind the boot with a fancy hubcap badge advertising the dealer "TCH" (TC Harrison's of Sheffield). We thought it was the dog's dangly bits. However reliability wasn't great, forever having the carb jets cleaned out, but better then its replacement, a 64 Imp.

Edit - just found this site -has a pic of spare wheel mount and whitewalls http://www.anglia-models.co.uk/sportsman.htm

My mate next door had a later 'E' reg one, which died and so we 'souped' it up with a scrap 1340cc Classic engine - the infamous hollow crank lump. It let go in spectacular fashion on one of the steep hills in Sheffield after he decided to drive home with the oil light on!

 

Morning All,

Slowly but surely I am adding further pictures of the Amberley Autumn Vintage Vehicle Show to my Flickr site. I have now added another nine and these include some vans, lorries and military vehicles as well as a couple of classic cars.

This is the first one and, as usual, clicking on it will enlarge it and take you to the others :


D7763. 1935 Morris 10 at Amberley. by Ron Fisher, on Flickr

Hope that they are still of interest. Still more to come as time allows.

 

Thanks for them Ron,................... memories of happy days. :thumb: