Did you go to the classic ford show at Santa Pod at the weekend? I was down there with the OldSkoolFord crew, and you may have seen the van on the stand. It was the biggest at the event with over 100 cars on it!
Well, the week before an ad had come up on OldSkoolFord. Someone local was selling his Anglia project. I’ve got an Anglia in the garage, which is taking an age to do, and his project was tempting. And he only wanted peanuts for it. AND he could deliver!!
So, it’s now mine. I met up with him on the way home from the CF show, and he followed me home.
It doesn’t look pretty, but it’s very solid. It’s a 1967 Super and it’s still on its original sills and front wings. The front panel is shot, but there is no rot anywhere. A previous owner had started stripping the paint and repairing some rust, but then just left it.
I got worried when I saw a load of expandable builders foam over the door posts behind the wings. I scraped some off and found this:
Solid!
It also has classic capri struts and cortina brakes, and a spax telescopic shock kit on the back. According to the DVLA website it was last taxed in 1999.
So the plan is to move the super I have out of the garage, put this on the spit, strip it back, red lead and protect the underneath, perhaps re-do a couple of the previous repairs (I’ve counted five repair patches). The outer bodywork is going to be satin black, although I do love the Ermine White and Dragoon Red scheme it should have. I’m doing this for speed. I will transplant the vans engine and box into it, get it MOT’d then strip the van back and give it the mother of all paint jobs….!