Ford Anglia 105E Buying Guide - Affordable 60s Ford?

[@simonhodgetts6530]

How odd! My dad and myself were only talking about the 105e yesterday. We both love them - and I was saying, that if I had somewhere to keep one, I would buy one. My granddad had one when I was very small, and although I found it a bit twee back then, I think they are cars with bags and bags of character.

[@janicereid9077]

My dad bought his first Anglia 105E from Dagenham , and shipped out to Mombasa, Kenya where we lived that car could go where Landrovers feared to go , , and he had Anglia, s for years after that , and so did I later in Rhodesia , definitely among the finest cars Ford ever built. I layer served my apprenticeship in a Ford dealer in Rhodesia , and Anglias where amongst the Fords I worked on , nice and simple , not like the stuff on the roads today.

[@paulc9588]

Love the 105E, the styling is a delight. Inspired by Detroit but still very British in character . . . which is just fine by me.

[@stevenyoung9584]

had a anglia super 40 years ago. bought off two spinsters, who'd had it from new. it was 20 years old then. said they bought it at the local ford dealership, in hartlepool and they'd never driven it out the area. i paid £600 for it, with 26000 miles on the clock. wish i still had it now, lol 😂 😢

[@loveisall5520]

In the early sixties here in Texas, an aunt and uncle owned one of these, beige with red interior; they called it their 'English Ford'. As a kid I loved riding in it, so very different than my parents' big Pontiacs. I'd love one now! Great British car.

[@ClassicsWorldUK]

Very cool!

[@hondamonkeyboy]

Most informative, thank you.

[@photosbyjb007]

I remember when going to school the bus stop was opposite the Ford dealership with the Anglia sold at £475

[@ClassicsWorldUK]

Glad it was helpful!

[@robertwillis4061]

A friend's older brother had an Anglia back in 1979+. It had a 1600ohv engine out of an early Capri. Run a straight through exhaust and some weird Alloy wheels ( not off any production car I know of ). Don't know about the brakes. It had the Capri seats in the front. And an odd dash that looked like the Capri pod stuck into a wooden box where the old unit would have been You could hear it at least 10 streets away. He crashed it.

[@Ribeirasacra]

I wish you had told me all of this back in 1973 when I purchased my first car. 1:32 I thought it was the A pillar which the hinges are attached too.

[@asa1973100]

I remember the day when you could pick One up for 50 quid and it would be a half decent car

[@billmitchell7904]

The entire Ford range in the 50’s and 60’s weren’t designed to last much longer than 5 years! Built in obsolescence they called - rotbox would be a more appropriate name 😂

[@Bellissimovolere]

Not the early fifties stuff like the sit up and beg pops and Anglias .. pretty solid

[@smoothmicra]

My first memory of a car as a bloke born in 1967, my dad had an Anglia estate. Of course it was the best car in the world, dad chose to buy one so why wouldn't be thicko? As a little boy I remember it looked black but when the sun shone you could see it was actually a very dark bottle green. Now I suspect it was a green car somebody painted black... badly. Unless you Angla nerds can contradict? Standard paint job?

[@rororp]

I had the misfortune to own one of these when I was at school. It died somewhere on a trip back from university. It was awful.

[@nigelwilliams7403]

Fun to drive but a complete rustbox

[@darrenwilson8042]

Really irritates me that even when those that are old enough to know go "ooooooo the Harry Potter car" - the Anglia is worth way way more respect than that. My brother-in-law went from a restored 123E to an Alfasud - THEN he learned about rust ha ha ha

[@GNeuman]

My Mum had one. It was rubbish. Rotbox and slower than a gokart.