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Ford, like most of the manufacturers at the time, did not bother much about bodywork protection. Therefore, like most other Ford's, the Ford Anglia 105E gave the Owner the option of having their new car with or without rust straight from the production line.

This left the Owners of the time with a problem. The mechanicals were good for a couple of decades, but, in some instances, the bodywork lasted just a bit longer than the warrenty. At the time, Britain was still in the fix and make do mindset, so some enterprising people decided to make some fibre glass bodies to go with all of these nearly new mechanicals.

At the time, most "kit car" manufacturers either chose the previous 100E Anglia or the Volkswagen Beetle as a basis. Luckily (for this site anyway) a couple of people decided that they could make use of the Ford Anglia 105E's mechanicals (and in one case its body parts as well.)

Phil Haig Autos were the first to base their kit car on the Ford Anglia 105E with their "Anglebug". This used a beach buggy type body, to which the Owner could attach all of the mechanicals, lights, windscreen and wiring loom from his rusting Anglia.

The total number of Anglebug's built is unknown

Opus were up next with their "T Bucket" type kit car. This used the Ford Anglia 105E's 997cc engine, most of the mechanicals and some of the instrumentation.

Approximately 250 of the Opus Ford's were Built.