Bonnet catches

Bonnet catches

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johnnywgk

2,579 posts

182 months

Saturday 7th January 2017
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phillpot said:
What is a Ford 104e ?
Ford anglia 104E

phillpot

17,114 posts

183 months

Saturday 7th January 2017
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johnnywgk said:
Ford anglia 104E
Not an Anglia according to this?

My previous link has it as a Prefect.

johnnywgk

2,579 posts

182 months

Saturday 7th January 2017
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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 with
Horse like blinkers to the top. Google 104e and see pics

phillpot

17,114 posts

183 months

Saturday 7th January 2017
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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



johnnywgk

2,579 posts

182 months

Saturday 7th January 2017
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phillpot said:
Not an Anglia according to this?

My previous link has it as a Prefect.
That's an E04, I'm sure a 104e is the same as the very bottom left pic on your link

johnnywgk

2,579 posts

182 months

Saturday 7th January 2017
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phillpot said:
Sounds like you're describing the "Harry Potter" Anglia, 105e, production started in '59


That's the shape my friend, but as I understand the 104 stopped production in 59, that's when the 105 took over

phillpot

17,114 posts

183 months

Saturday 7th January 2017
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johnnywgk said:
That's the shape my friend, but as I understand the 104 stopped production in 59, that's when the 105 took over
I'm loosing the will to live here............wobble

100e (pictured below) stopped in '59 to be replaced by the completely different 105e




johnnywgk

2,579 posts

182 months

Sunday 8th January 2017
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OK. I give up. Hope we get a answer

glenrobbo

35,213 posts

150 months

Sunday 8th January 2017
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phillpot said:
I'm loosing the will to live here............wobble

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.
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 wink ) 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! wink

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? smile

glenrobbo

35,213 posts

150 months

Sunday 8th January 2017
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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. biggrin

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. wink

Edited by glenrobbo on Sunday 8th January 01:15

phillpot

17,114 posts

183 months

Sunday 8th January 2017
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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......


glenrobbo

35,213 posts

150 months

Sunday 8th January 2017
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Ah yes, of course! 109E Classic saloon and Capri coupé.

I think the run-out model I referred to must have been the 107E.

I also remember there was the 113E but I can't think what it's name was. Possibly Cortina ( Mk 1 ) or Corsair?

Alan Whitaker

2,054 posts

182 months

Sunday 8th January 2017
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Don't forget the 107E, Just had the OHV engine.




Edited by Alan Whitaker on Sunday 8th January 08:31

glenrobbo

35,213 posts

150 months

Sunday 8th January 2017
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Yep, the 107E Ford Popular. thumbup

I just found this thread from 2009.
Last post is interesting re model numbers.

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?t=614...

glenrobbo

35,213 posts

150 months

Sunday 8th January 2017
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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.

v8s4me

7,240 posts

219 months

Sunday 8th January 2017
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glenrobbo said:
....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.
The wife or the car? laugh

greymrj

3,316 posts

204 months

Sunday 8th January 2017
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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!

greymrj

3,316 posts

204 months

Sunday 8th January 2017
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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? smile
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!!

Blue 30

519 posts

117 months

Sunday 8th January 2017
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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

phillpot

17,114 posts

183 months

Monday 9th January 2017
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Blue 30 said:
I search my memory banks for all of 90 seconds, to come up with the XJ6 range bonnet catches.