When I were but a lad, a friend of mine had an Anglia that had had the
engine from a larger Ford car, IIRC a 1600E Cortina transplanted into
it. My memory is that this was a common mod, as it involved no
hacking out of crossmembers or welding, though I may be mixing it up
with the popular Fiat 2litre twin cam into a Morris Minor mod (I am
not making this up). It would do the ton. I can verify this because
I was in the passenger seat once when it did the ton. I have never
been so frightened in a car in my life before or since.
OK I'll stop now.
On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 12:51 PM, Mike Dickson <mike.dickson@gmail.com> wrote:
> Anglias look nothing like this.They were 1200cc engined pootle-abouts
> with bizarre fins on the back wings and looked like they were built for
> the senses-numbed-over-60s rather than speed.
>
> I should know. When I was about six I drove my bike into a parked Anglia
> and managed to dent the front offside wing. Quite a feat on a Raleigh
> Convertible. The owner - a complete twat, incidentally - told me that it
> would cost me five shillings from my pocket money to get that problem
> sorted. I genuinely thought that this was the price of a new Ford Anglia.
>
> Mike
>