Bonnet catches
Discussion
lewdon said:
Wasn't that the old sit up and beg ford pop from the 50s? not many of those around now. (or in 1989/90)
It's the one with the backwards tilting rear window think stopped production in 59. Has sameish headlights as ours but withHorse like blinkers to the top. Google 104e and see pics
johnnywgk said:
It's the one with the backwards tilting rear window think stopped production in 59. Has sameish headlights as ours but with Horse like blinkers to the top. Google 104e and see pics
Sounds like you're describing the "Harry Potter" Anglia, 105e, production started in '59
phillpot said:
I'm loosing the will to live here............
100e (pictured below) stopped in '59 to be replaced by the completely different 105e
That pic is of a Ford Prefect 100E 4-door saloon, almost identical to mine ( 1958 Reg. THO 238 ), 1172 side valve flat-head engine. The 100E Anglia was the cheaper 2-door variant. 100e (pictured below) stopped in '59 to be replaced by the completely different 105e
A few years on, I became the proud owner of a 1964 reg 998cc ohv 105E Anglia ( BDB 394B ) in Paris Blue. The Harry Potter sloping the wrong way back window flying car. ( Mine didn't fly as well as the Prefect
) But it had fun handling and more oomph than the 100E. I could get the back end hanging out just like that! And the car as well! Phillpot, without googling, I think the 109E was the production run-out of the 100E bodyshells fitted with the new 998cc ohv engine. Do I win a prize?
TurboTony said:
103E/104E were the post war Popular although I do not know the difference between the two numbers ( apart from "1").
But they were called by the generic E93A when I was a youth, All the Anglia/ Prefect models had different E numbers.
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As an aside to this interesting off-topic sidetrack, I remember a guy by the name of Mike Berman who produced modified E93a sit up and beg Ford Pops with supercharged 1500cc Mk 1 Cortina engines. Each customer car came with a 120mph guaranteed top speed! He called it the Berpop. This was late 60's/ early 70's. But they were called by the generic E93A when I was a youth, All the Anglia/ Prefect models had different E numbers.
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ETA: IIRC, they looked something like this:-
Mike Berman may or may not have been from Norfolk. I think he used Snetterton as a test track? My memory is just like nostalgia: It ain't wot it used ter be.
Edited by glenrobbo on Sunday 8th January 01:15
Ah yes, "Berpop" remember it well. First saw it at Brands Hatch. Seeing Ford Popular in the programme I expected it to be a 100e, even that would have been quite old, must have been late sixties and one or two Escorts were starting to creap in amongst all the 105e Anglias. Didn't know Mike had produced road going versions.
109e is the Ford Classic/Capri
Original Capri, classic had rear window sloping inwards like the Anglia......
109e is the Ford Classic/Capri
Original Capri, classic had rear window sloping inwards like the Anglia......
Yep, the 107E Ford Popular. 
I just found this thread from 2009.
Last post is interesting re model numbers.
http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?t=614...
I just found this thread from 2009.
Last post is interesting re model numbers.
http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?t=614...
Getting back on topic, I seem to remember that the BMC / BL Austin / Morris 1100 and 1300 had similar bonnet latch spring pins and plungers to our TVR S's but I can't visualise the actual catch, which was mounted on the front scuttle panel.
I bought my wife the Wolseley twin-carb version. Very well specced for the time, comfortable and quite quick. But it eventually succumbed to rotten rear subframe mountings.
I bought my wife the Wolseley twin-carb version. Very well specced for the time, comfortable and quite quick. But it eventually succumbed to rotten rear subframe mountings.
lewdon said:
How do you do that?
Put Ford 104e or whatever in Google then select images. The problem however is that you need to check if there is an accurate description on the image! There are plenty of images on 104E which have nothing to do with Ford 104E!!!The breakdown picture I posted was for the 100E
Do not assume UK Ford model numbers are in chronological order, if only it was that easy.
Anyway, have we now finally killed the myth that our bonnet catches have anything to do with Fords? Sod the effing model number!
glenrobbo said:
Phillpot, without googling, I think the 109E was the production run-out of the 100E bodyshells fitted with the new 998cc ohv engine. Do I win a prize?
Errrr nope...not this time https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Consul_Classic
The trap is to assume Ford numbers are chronological. They are complicated by model names for example, Popular, Prefect, Anglia for different door/engine/interior specs of the same car but with different production run periods.
But NONE of them have a bonnet catch like ours!!!
END of interesting digression into the depths of Ford details and the myths that have arisen and been propogated....now about that bonnet catch!!
Using logic (not of the Tvr type).
Wouldn't it be normal to use an in production part (at the time S's were designed) rather than one from a car where some of them were already hitting the scrap yards (unless that's where Tvr sourced them from).
With that in mind, I search my memory banks for all of 90 seconds, to come up with the XJ6 range bonnet catches.
But I guess those have been ruled out too.
TerryB
Wouldn't it be normal to use an in production part (at the time S's were designed) rather than one from a car where some of them were already hitting the scrap yards (unless that's where Tvr sourced them from).
With that in mind, I search my memory banks for all of 90 seconds, to come up with the XJ6 range bonnet catches.
But I guess those have been ruled out too.
TerryB
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