And the Marina largely just a re-bodied version of it.
Are you sure it was 105E based? Most were based on the earlier side valve cars with separate chassis.
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In message , "Dave Plowman (News)" writes
I had a 100E in a 1956 series 2 Morgan. 3 speed gearbox! I was once embarrassed being overtaken by a lorry on that slow uphill from Watford Gap!
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I think you're probably right. As I said, I never even got it working, I bought it, we towed it to our students' house, it sat on the grass verge for a while, then somebody offered me money for it. So it was a 100E?
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Dunno. There were several 'E' numbers that could have provided the chassis.
The 105E was really when Ford moved into the 20th century with a small car. ;-)
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The Model T was 20th century !
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True. But I once worked on a contract to install a new paintshop in a truck factory in Ontario, Canada, and we reckoned that we had dragged the company kicking and screaming into the 19th Century by the time we were finished. They have closed down since then, to nobody's surprise.
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;-) And in many ways cutting edge for its time - unlike the sit up and beg Anglia, etc.
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I suspect the "sit up and beg Anglia" & Prefect were all that could be produced quickly in the aftermath of WW2. They were really pre-war machines. The 105E and its bigger brother, the 123E (I had the estate), were modern machines. I had driven a Popular before that. And I went on to buy a Cortina Mk3 which I kept for 13 years!
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It's amazing that Ford could still be selling the sit up and beg cars as late as 1959 - side valves, white metal bearings, no water pump, vacuum wipers etc. By comparison the 1948 Minor was technically way ahead.
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Well yes. But Austin managed to produce an all new small car with OHV and
4 speed gearbox in the late '40s. Not some 10 years later like Ford.Yes - Ford finally got its act together. ;-)
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The A30 even more so. The '48 Minor still had a basically pre-war engine.
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In message , "Dave Plowman (News)" writes
I hope you avoided the 1200cc 3 bearing engine:-)
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I paid ?150 for my over head knocker Mk 3 Cortina and got 5 years out of it. I got 15 scrap for it, there was not much metal left.