Are you ready for this? Here we go then. Cast your blearies over this lot.
Hehe. The "sit up & beg" Ford Popular. My uncle's first new car but his wasn't quite like this. No heater & a 3-speed manual gearbox. Someone's taken a cutting torch to this one. I must say it's an improvement.
The Ford Consul with a bench seat & column gear change. I was given a lift to work at Gatwick for a couple of years in one of these. Same colour too. Like all post-WWII UK Ford models up to this point it had vacuum operated windscreen wipers. Unfortunately these went on a go-slow when you most needed them. Going up Handcross Hill on a wet day stuck behind a big lorry throwing all sorts of muck all over you was an amazing experience which I don't recommend to anyone.
The wipers went berserk when you took your foot off the go-pedal & you were lucky not to lose one or both wiper blades at this point. The sudden lack of resistance made the wiper arms go even faster - leaving a deep score in the windscreen before you had the chance to turn them off. Most UK Fords of any age had this distinguishing feature.
An immaculate "Moggie" Minor pickup - the Morris Motors answer to the VW Beetle. My brother had an ex-GPO van which was very similar but in far worse condition. It ran quite well but the front supension had a bad habit of collapsing when you went round a corner, destroying the front mudguard in the process. The electric fuel pump was located below the rear mudguard. This usually stopped working at the most inconvenient time, like on a dark night when it was teeming with rain & you were dressed in your best suit. A good clout with a hammer on the offending part usually fixed the problem - the aforementioned hammer being a vital part of the toolkit.
The good ol' Austin A35 with big boots & a blower. These used to be the favourite of all the old grannies holding up the traffic everywhere they went. Somehow it doesn't have quite the same effect as one of those super-duper Yankee jobs.
Ah, that's better.
An original Min. The nice young lad was kind enough to wait while I took the shot.
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