1959 Ford Popular [103E]

1959 Ford Popular [103E] in The Grand Tour, Non-fiction TV, 2016-2024 Ep. 5.02

Class: Cars, Sedan — Model origin:

Vehicle used by a character or in a car chase

Author	Message
opal ◊ 2023-06-24 16:41
johnfromstaffs ◊ 2023-06-24 16:50	Not a Ford Popular. Why? The windscreen wiper on the Popular hung downwards from the top rail of the windscreen. There are twin wipers, sprouting upwards from the scuttle on this, so making it an Anglia body shell. Whatever the plate says, they discontinued the Anglia in 1953.
johnfromstaffs ◊ 2023-06-24 16:56	Before any remarks about the footwell ventilator: - Link to "barrett-jackson.com"
dsl ◊ 2023-06-24 17:19	5680 AC ✗ Untaxed Vehicle Tax due: 1 June 2023 MOT No results returned Vehicle make FORD Date of first registration March 1959 Year of manufacture 1959 Cylinder capacity 3433 cc Export marker No Vehicle status Untaxed Vehicle colour BLUE Wheelplan 2 AXLE RIGID BODY Date of last V5C (logbook) issued 9 June 2022 Commentary says it's a Jag 6cyl and I think Jag covers ere seen at one point.
johnfromstaffs ◊ 2023-06-24 18:26	It still shows the characteristics of the earlier bodyshell, that shape footwell ventilator appeared in 1938/9, and the wipers… I cannot provide absolute proof of any of it, but what was there when they registered the thing, and what is there now are certainly poles apart.