RE: SOTW: Ford Prefect

[falkster]

Always wanted a 100E but there's no way I have time to make that work!! There was a powder blue one in CCC in about 1988 which had a pinto on twin 45s, very nice interior and superlites - it looked awesome!! Loved it and that was when I fell in love with classic cars.

[thomablue]

Nice variation on shed theme,shame seller is 12 or wears a tag.

[Escorttom]

Its old. its ford its rear wheel drive. Bang a 1600 crossflow in it and sleeper the st out of all the barry boyz.

You could always go for an Alan Mann replica.

[standardman]

Hmmm good to see Shed keeps a real and left field. Just what the doctor ordered.

[MiseryStreak]

I saw the title and thought "What a great Shed of the Week", then I attempted to read the bloody awful text speak description which ruined it for me.

[SlimRick]

Someone's stolen the engine and replaced it with a painted shoebox!

[shouldbworking]

Fairly mint one of these presently sat in the garage / showroom no more than 15 metres from me. It's kept taxed and mot'd but has a small lake of oil under it.

[garypotter]

MonkeyMatt said:

What a load of crap hahahah! Though to be honest it would make an ideal first car for someone who wants to be a bit different!

Ideal car for a 17yr old senna wannabe! cheap to run no tax not much chance they will get caught speeding either.

and if it does und up in a tree I am sure the scrap man will give you a couple of hundred pound in scrap weight....

[gmh23]

For those talking about putting a V6/V8 in it, is it really a wise idea making a car that does 0-60 in 32 seconds into a sub 8-second car without changing anything else on it?

[The Danimal]

[pSyCoSiS]

I actually quite like this.

Very different.

Yeh, it's not quick, but it would be fun to hoon around in, and also has simple mechanics if it were to break down!

Someone please buy it, otherwise i'm actually tempted. Offer him £550 cash. Throw in a V8. Job done.

[Laurel Green]

Takes me back to my youth does this shed. Wouldn't mind another one but, think this one is perhaps a tad beyond reasonable cost in the doingupstakes.

[J4CKO]

Faust66 said:

I love it and it’s an interesting choice of shed.

Obviously there will be a lot of posts blathering on about the lack of power this car has etc. but consider this: if you live in a big city and commute everyday, how often do you get to travel above 30 mph?

So, you’ve got free tax, it’ll cost pennies to insure, very little to go wrong with this car and if it does you can fix it yourself with a basic toolkit (or garage bills will be pretty small – no fancy plastic engine covers that take ages to remove here) and the parts should be nice and cheap.

The perfect commuter car?

Or stick a fking great V8 in it and have some fun!

We have a Fiat 500 which is similar in terms of lack of alacrity and it does kind of work like you say but you are left straggling and Cayenne and RRS drivers dont cut you much slack, ditto brakes, now I have sorted the Fiats brakes they are ok but any modern car will pull up a lot quicker, especially in the wet. With a little work to modernise it, could be a fun car but as is it would drive you batst as is daily.

And as for the talk of V8's and V6's, doesnt need one, especially an old Essex V6, nothing really needs that wheezy old boat anchor, especially somethign so small, unless you are going for a 70's custom style, for a car of this size those kinds of engines are physically big and probably more torquey than it needs, 170 BHP modern multi valve rev monster is the way to go here, scrap all the crap old suspension and steering and put modern stuff in, four link the back end, stiffen the shell and it could be an excellent B road sleeper.

[philkermeen]

garypotter said:

MonkeyMatt said:

What a load of crap hahahah! Though to be honest it would make an ideal first car for someone who wants to be a bit different!

Ideal car for a 17yr old senna wannabe! cheap to run no tax not much chance they will get caught speeding either.

and if it does und up in a tree I am sure the scrap man will give you a couple of hundred pound in scrap weight....

It'll be a friggin death trap. If you don't like your kids - buy it!

[vixen1700]

Dreadful, and that ad just adds insult to injury.

[spoodler]

gmh23 said:

For those talking about putting a V6/V8 in it, is it really a wise idea making a car that does 0-60 in 32 seconds into a sub 8-second car without changing anything else on it?

Please tell me you don't really think any one would actually do that.
Anybody who has ever got their hands dirty on a modified car understands the huge amount of work that goes into a transplant, it doesn't end with the engine. My '36 Austin has four times the power it left the factory with - it sits on a boxed and strengthened chassis and runs Jaguar suspension and brakes and that is just the tip of the iceberg.

[Bolognese]

I like it - pretty little car. Needs a proper engine in it though!

[Andysywv]

[quote=MonkeyMatt]What a load of crap hahahah!

Perfect

Or did I mean Prefect

[CDP]

Slammed, black-boarded and text speak advert.

Each attribute capable of putting me off a car in it's own right.

I can understand the original reason for matt black was to avoid the expense of spray painting a tatty old wreck but get really disapponted when people do it to otherwise good cars because they actually want the rat look.

[SmartVenom]

The Danimal said:

That advert is a perfect example of the failings of today's education system... unless it's supposed to be ironic - in which case, it's brilliant.

I could never buy a car from an ad like that! I'm not saying all ads have to be in the best English ever, but I think it is best they don't leave you wanting to drown the author.