Pictures of British Car Show
#1
Posted 29 September 2002 - 17:50
Yes there was a Ford Prefect
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#3
Posted 29 September 2002 - 20:48
Always wondered what my old MGA Coupe would look like with louvers punched in her hood.
Also still wonder why I ever sold her thirty years ago
PJM
#4
Posted 29 September 2002 - 20:58
Absolutely great photos!1 Good variety, too!
Just one complaint: Why only 1 shot of TR-2/TR-3s??;) (just kidding!!)
Bobbo
#5
Posted 29 September 2002 - 21:27
Originally posted by FordPrefect
Hello, in one of my rare visits here I thought I would share some pictures I took at the British Car Show held two weekends ago in Bronte Park Oakville.
Yes there was a Ford Prefect
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The Ford Prefect holds no fascination with me..I was brought up in the back seat of a number of them. Their only amusing feature was windscreen wipers that slowed down just at the times one might want them to work....
#6
Posted 29 September 2002 - 21:56
#7
Posted 29 September 2002 - 22:14
#8
Posted 29 September 2002 - 22:27
Way back in 1966, I had a Hillman Minx (Nit the Inp, sorry!) that was a convertible, leaked more with the top up! And was colder in the winter than with the top down! Just like my TR-2!
I guess this is what TNF does for me: stirs up some fun and interesting memories.
Would love to see that Imp ragtop!
Bobbo
#9
Posted 30 September 2002 - 01:31
#10
Posted 30 September 2002 - 18:27
I used to drive them all the time
#11
Posted 30 September 2002 - 21:27
Originally posted by condor
Were there any Ford Capris there?
I used to drive them all the time
I suspect they all rusted
#12
Posted 30 September 2002 - 22:00
Originally posted by David Beard
The Ford Prefect holds no fascination with me.. I was brought up in the back seat of a number of them. Their only amusing feature was windscreen wipers that slowed down just at the times one might want them to work....
That must have been the 100E model... the one that looked like a baby Consul...
These had those dreadful vacuum wipers... as did other cars of the late forties and early fifties... the relied on engine vacuum, so when the accelerator pedal went down and reduced the vacuum in the manifold they lost power. Actually, they had a spherical vacuum tank fitted, but it wasn't enough to overcome the problem... Holdens didn't even have the tank...
But I believe the model that Fordy admires, the upright things with transverse leaf springs and a torque tube rear end, had electric wiper motors.
My outstanding memory of riding in the back of one of these was one day on a family outing in 1952... my parents in the front seat with my baby sister there too... and Grandma, dad's mother, who was fairly bulky, in the back with the other four of us. We got near to the Tom Ugly's bridge which had a 6d toll and Grandma was insisting that she hand the toll to dad to pay as he went over... but the toll had been cut out the previous week (or month) and the more mum and dad tried to convince the dear old thing the more she thought they were trying to prevent her paying!
condor... Capris would have rusted... especially the Consul Classic Capris...
#13
Posted 30 September 2002 - 22:15
Originally posted by Ray Bell
That must have been the 100E model... the one that looked like a baby Consul...
These had those dreadful vacuum wipers... as did other cars of the late forties and early fifties... the relied on engine vacuum, so when the accelerator pedal went down and reduced the vacuum in the manifold they lost power. Actually, they had a spherical vacuum tank fitted, but it wasn't enough to overcome the problem... Holdens didn't even have the tank...
But I believe the model that Fordy admires, the upright things with transverse leaf springs and a torque tube rear end, had electric wiper motors.
No, no, no! The upright things with transverse leaf springs and a torque tube rear end, had vacuum powered wipers!!!
I'm beginning to feel guilty about discussing Ford Prefects in here
#14
Posted 30 September 2002 - 22:30
I always thought they relied on Lucas for windscreen wiping... shows how wrong you can be...
You must appreciate, too, that derivatives raced on for many years... even today? Didn't Chapman get a start building frames for these engines? These and Austin 7s too...
#15
Posted 01 October 2002 - 09:37
#16
Posted 01 October 2002 - 22:11
Don't think there were any Ford / VW based kit car pics though Fordy
#17
Posted 01 October 2002 - 23:52
Originally posted by condor
Yeah My Dutton Melos was based on a Ford MK1
Don't think there were any Ford / VW based kit car pics though Fordy
"Ford Mk 1"? I'm sure you're talking about a model a very long way removed from the car on the Leyburn grid above...
Side valves, 1172cc of raw screaming revs...
#18
Posted 04 October 2002 - 16:08
Nice pics, FP.