Ford Anglia - Your Stories

On this page we look at your stories about the Ford Angla 105E. Those anecdotes,
and memories of when the Ford Anglia made you laugh or cry, or just plain annoyed you.
If you know would like to add your story, please feel free to email me

Site Visitor David Ricketts

I thought I'd tell you my Anglia story.
The first car I remember my father owning was an Anglia Deluxe (104 XNN). I remember topping and tailing with my sister on the back seat when we went on holiday. Looking at the size of the rear seat now, we must have been very young. The car was sold to the son of a family friend. The first thing he and his mate did was to take the car apart and put it back together again. Two weeks later, my father received phone calls both from the police and the family friend (who had also been contacted by the police). They were wondering why the car was parked on the inside edge of a Derby roundabout with a detached rear axle! I don't know if the car survived beyond this point. I'd like to think so.
I recently became interested in picking up an Anglia of my own and searching magazines and the internet has thrown up images that have stirred memories I thought were long forgotten. The instrument binacle with those lovely idiot lights and the five-star roundel in the centre of the steering wheel for starters. The rear seat also looks very familiar. I remember it being a sort of sea green colour but we're going back over three decades here so I could be wrong.

PS. The son of the family friend ended up running his own garage. Hopefully with more success than he had with my Dad's car.

Site Visitor Peter Guscott

I remember my late father buying a brand new 105E in the early 1960s. He traded in a Ford Popular. He was a policemen and wanted a black car, as at that time, rural bobbies would use their own vehicles for police work, and claim the costs back. He was a bit taken aback to be told that the 105E wasn't available in black. He thought it was ridiculous, as up until then black was one of the only few colours that cars were made in. So, he contacted Fords Head Office (I presume it would have been in Dagenham). He quoted Henry Ford to them "You can have any colour you want as long as it's black". He got a result!
Ford had one specially prepared for him, in black, at no extra cost! It was the only private black 105E Anglia ever produced as far as I'm aware. I certainly never saw another.
The vehicle's reg number was 5216 WY but I realize the chances of it still being around are extremely remote!

P.S. My own first and second cars were both 105Es, a 1963 maroon one and a 1966 white one. Happy days. I loved the smell of plastic filler.