As with other comments, this is a phenomenal job! And like many commenters, there is a personal connection here. My parents bought one for my arrival in 1955. It was black with red trim, like this, and the registration was FJV 963. I still have the costs of running it as my father kept a notebook in the early days. He felt that he was a bit naive when buying it as the salesman said that ‘they all do that’ when he queried the flicking of the speedo needle. When he came to trade it in, the salesman offered less because the speedo was ‘faulty’! When in town, all you could say was that you were doing a ‘steady 20/40.’ This one looks to have been better than when it left Dagenham. Congratulations on the build quality, attention to detail and of the visual record you kept. It makes for a great film. Notes for FJV 963 (1955-6 missing or not recorded) 1957 March 25 4044 miles April 1st 4066 Service (5th token) near side wing resprayed May 6th new fan belt fitted 4317 miles June 5th oil changed (Shell X100 Mulitigrade) 4490 miles July 23rd Service (3rd token) used 5036 miles August 18th oil changed 5036 miles (Shell x100 Multigrade) 5927 miles August 26th service (4th token used) draught deflectors fitted 6041 miles November 1st free inspection by Ford mechanics at Lincs Motors 6655 miles (report received 26th Nov) Nov 27th oil filter fitted and oil changed (Shell Multigrade x100) steering corrections checked Dec 15th spark plugs cleaned 6798 miles 1958 3rd January speedo reading 7067 miles (so, 1957’s motoring) 81 gallons of petrol 3023 37.3 miles/gallon Insurance £10 4shillings 5pence Tax £9 16shillings 11pence 1959 3rd January speedo reading 11046 miles (1958’s motoring) 104 gallons petrol 38.25 miles /gallon Insurance £9 . 14s. . 0d Tax £9 . 16. 11d Other years available! 1961. April 22nd car sold £225 to Lincolnshire Motors, Grimsby, in part exchange for 100E popular deluxe. Most people would consider it a cosseted car….
Fascinating. My brother bought a stone grey one in 1963, it was our first car. He was very happy when he did 30 mph uphill in it. He always used the starting handle before going off to work in the mornings, and woke all the neighbours up. Thanks for this.
I had a Ford Popular just like yours in 1966. During most of 1967 I worked on the car, but nothing like the extent you did on yours. I had it resprayed pillar box red by the paint sprayer in the workshop (I was an apprentice motor mechanic at the time) and, as in your case, had a professional fit a new headlining. Then just before Christmas 1967 my sister and I drove it from Kent to Bielefeld in Germany to spend the festivities with my sister's German penfriend's family. The journey took 10 hours in a howling blizzard across Belgium and then up from Aachen. The fan belt snapped even before we got to Dover, but we limped on to the ferry using my sister's tights to keep the dynamo charging. We managed to get a replacement fan belt on the way to Brussels, although it was actually for a tractor and stood well proud of the fan pulley. On the way back to England, again in a snowstorm, the windscreen wiper blade just blew away so we drove the rest of the way without one, with me reaching out of the driver's window to brush off accumulated snow. Another 10 hours and two punctures later we arrived back home. I had concentrated far too much on the appearance of the car and had not spent nearly enough time on the mechanicals, not even thinking of carrying a spare fan belt in the boot. It was a great adventure, though. One that my sister and I reminisced about for years afterwards.
I had a 38 Ford eight as my first car in the mid 60s. When the fanbelt fell off, the car went significantly better so I left it off until the battery got low (about a week), then refitted it for a while to charge the battery up. Another tweak was to remove the radiator fan - the engine never overheated despite being thrashed unmercifully. I have seen these engines with an external water pump fitted, but that tall radiator allowed the thermosiphon to work fine
Very nice. Apparently this was the cheapest car in the uk for a few years. My Dad had one of these when I was a kid in the early 1960’s. My job was washing the hubcaps whilst he washed the car. He loved it. During one hard winter it snowed so much that the Milkman couldn’t get round to do his deliveries, but the old Ford Pop just chugged through the snow no problem. Nice to see a true restoration rather than a car turned into a v8 powered hot rod! Very well done indeed, that’s a cracking job you’ve done there👍🤗
Worked later 105e Fords in the 60s .... Vauxhalls VWs etc as a young mechanic. Your work is stunning and, i hope she goes on for another 50 odd years. WELL DONE THAT MAN.
Great job and a "PRICELESS" documentary !!!! I have wanted one of these since about the age of 13. I am 58 now I think I might be running out of time... You did a great job and thanks for posting. 😃
Wow, you have done a magnificent job! My mother had one of these when I was a kid here in New Zealand. A lot of the really cool British stuff didn't get saved, everybody wanted the US, Canadian, Australian or even New Zealand stuff. And after the UK Joined the EEC in 1973 that was good bye anything British. Some of the top end British stuff has been saved. Anyway I'd prefer to have one of these than a Japanese car of the same year... or would I? Japan makes fine products and they are great people so I won't be so hasty. However well done, it looks great and I'd be very proud of what you have done, thanks! Cheers from Down Under
While I was in the US Navy in Scotland in the mid 60s a shipmate & I owned a 1954 Ford Popular just like yours.. It was great fun and drove it all over the UK.. That car served us well.
Came across your video because I searched for Ford Pop, and this was our first family car, black, in colour, not mine but my Dad's I was about 5 or 6 at the time. I distinctly remember the running boards, the handbrake, the leather seats, a choke, and the option of hand cranking to start the car if the battery was flattish because I think we had a severe winter around that time, 1958 ish?. Can remember my Dad doing that on a cold bitter morning. I also recall it had only 2 doors and I think they opened the wrong way?, ie towards the rear? can't be 100% sure on that. It was a great pleasure to watch your video and it brought back many fond memories. That boot, I can remember Mum packing a Wicker Basket picnic case into it to so we could have sandwiches and a flask of tea on Formby beach, those were the days. Enjoy the car, you have restored a piece of British history.
My dear mother owned a ford pop just like the one you have restored. In the winter she would cover the engine with a blanket and place a paraffin heater under the engine sump to ensure an easy start to take us kids to school.
Lovely video. It may have taken a while but the end result is truly magnificent. I remember a dark green Pop I used to pass each day on the way to school. Always thought them to be a neat small car of their day. Happy Motoring
Hi, Thanks for posting you're interesting photo's and video clips. i've owned one of these little motors for the last 23 years, i've always liked the look of them. It's good to see the motor finished and back on the road again. Cheers, nice one.
I had the privilege to meet this car magician in the Eurotunnel with one of his beauties. We needed to wait 3 hours due to an incident earlier in the Eurotunnel, but this was forgotten after my baptism in pre-war car technology :) Thanks !
Excellent video. I have a 1950 Fordson 5cwt in the same condition as your 103E. Mine took 4 years to restore . The Fordson is the van version of your car, although you probably know that 👍. Big well done for saving the car
In 1958, I was 16, I had a 1951 Anglia which needed parts. I went to the local auto wrecker, bought a 1949 Anglia for 25 dollars, dragged it home, took the parts I needed, dragged the remains back to the auto wrecker and got my 25 dollars back. The Anglia was my pride and joy.
I had a blue one, bought it from a friend in Ardrossan with the differential shot. Down to the scrapyard in Prestwick and picked up a second hand one. Changed it out the next weekend and it was on the road. Cost me a fiver to buy and a couple of pounds for the rear axle. It had the semaphore direction indicators but you could buy those new fangled blinkers which could be bought at Woolworths.
Well done , my Pop is competing along very slowly , can understand the hassle with the rear window , having a rest from that now watching you vid for a clue to how it's done . Good luck with the car have fun..
Nice to see that.not many original like that fantastic.must be proud. My farther taught a friend to drive in one of those.must be fun with that suspension going around corners.like the side valve engine.cool
Excellent! ...lovely film of your progress...very interesting to watch. I too have a little Pop...also in the same Rare shade of black :-) Fantastic little cars....so pleased you made the trip to Arras with no problems. Well done :-)
Great video and restoration. Often wonder why people bought in the 50's a new pre war designed car? For example, the later design 100E, the Morris Minor or Stsndard 10 were available. My uncle bought a new 103E sit up and beg car in mid 50's, roomy in the back but the front seats were too narrow. 50's cars had unique style!
Thank you for a delightful story of your patient and painstaking restoration of this charming car. Perhaps vehicle restoration can be likened to a three dimensional jigsaw puzzle. Your reward is to go places in the completed puzzle and share it. A thing of beauty!
Brilliant. Well done. Too many of those were butchered & turned into 'hot rods'. My grandfather gave me his old Ford Prefect which was a four door version of the Popular. The registration number was POP27. I joined the RAF & when I came home on leave, my father had got the scrap man to take it away and it was in good roadworthy condition.
One has an opinion when looking at a small old car thinking oh yes that would be pretty simple to restore as they would be uncomplicated back in those days when they made that , until you see this video , and then you appreciate what was involved in the manufacture of a small car and the engineering that went into it , I would love to see the pressing of the front guards , to press that shape out of metal without it creasing is an engineering miracle , I know I am a metalworker and I know how metal fights back to change the shape and to achieve that smooth roundness is an incredible engineering feat .
Thank you for sharing this video. We, my daughtar and I are working on exatly same model "Ford Popular 104 E" just left hand driven an in Denmark. startet 26 of may 2018- and stil working on it. ;-) hopfully it will be road ready for the 2021 seasson.
My grandpa had one. If it ever left the garage and was rained on he carefully leathered it dry before it went back. When he gave up driving the local Ford showroom in Ashford Kent bought it and displayed it in their showroom.
@@moosiebabe1 bang on the money! Crouch it was. My father was the General Manager at the then newly opened Batchelors Peas at Kennington and I went to Friars School at Great Chart, then a private boarding school......
@@moosiebabe1 Oxford these days. Where is your 10 miles from Ashford? I think Batchelors is now quite split up as a site. In 1959 ( approx) when it opened it was just one v large factory. We were in Ashford for about 4 years and then we went to New Zealand to Birds Eye Foods also part of Unilever.
Yes still on the road and driviing to France next March in her only modification are the indicators Glad you liked the video Have you seen the other videos on my channel?
God what a love story, You are very similar to me If a job is worth doing it is worth doing well, I also never cut corners unless something is beyond my control. If the worst comes to the worst make a new part rather than a bodge job! Well done YOUNG man, lol
No mission is impossible... I remember as a young 7 year old standing on the seat imagining I was stearling moss back in 1969 and there were heaps of Austin's around...
love English Fords...remembering my 1952 Anglia, 1952 Prefect, 1959 Escort, and my 1962 Anglia 105E...all fitted with left hand drive (USA) great cars.... The Popular in this videa is beautiful...
Minha paixão quando era guri , tenho 74 anos mas tive uma Fordson ano 1947 era a mesma mecânica eu fiz toda mecânica e lataria em 1971 deixei ela zero era boa de viajar que saudades
My first road car was one of these in about 1966/7 so it was a 20 year old banger at the time and wasn't very "cool" . Fond memories now though. Well done.
My uncle was still driving one of those in the late 1960s. Usually involved the starting handle to get it going and bits kept falling off it. How we laughed.
Brings back the time I had the ford 1953 model 10 and having to repair the body for a warrant of fitness and the brass grill.Do you find the wear on the rear wheel bearings housing on the diff?You have a great car to enjoy .
I notice that you haven't fitted a Panhard Rod to the rear suspension. Best little mod I made to my '53 Anglia which totally transformed the cornering ability and general handling.
Just found this presentation. The Ford Pop is my favourite sentimental car. As a tiny child I remember driving around in my mother's PoP! I like the customs....But I like the old school original better. If I could only have one car it would be a PoP. Who cares about mechanical reliability or build. gotta like a PoP
Incredible job and I really envy you skills, however I do have one simple suggestion for you. Those front indicators do look out of place, not because of how or where they are mounted, but because we all know a Ford of that era wouldn't have them. Why not swap out the amber lenses for clear ones and use silvered amber bulbs? Many cars of that era had Lucas sidelights using the exact same light unit but with a clear lens.
Interesting. I take it, with the right side steering, this is a British Ford? I am unfamiliar with the evolution of the British Fords. Were they using all British designers and manufacturing? The 1955 hearkens back to the late 1930 American Fords.
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British Ford, designed and made in England with some input from US.
This type of Ford Popular was already out of date from the day it went on sale (marketed from 1953 to 59) even in England! It was a bargain basement vehicle to help get the lower paid motoring, especially as second hand cars were still in short supply. They were seen everywhere right up until the mid-late 1960s. I personally didn't think much of them to look at - and at the time considered them silly old relics from a bye gone age. My neighbour had one - wish I'd bought one for $10 and kept it for the times we live in now! In fact, in the early 60s they were paying people to take them away for scrap as the road safety vehicle tests had just come in, and pre-war and other old cars disappeared from the UK roads almost overnight...
@@Tolpuddle581 Yep, their origins dated back to the early 30s and (to me anyway) these cars were a bit of an insult to the customer as Ford stripped out all the "de-luxe" fittings and features (which weren't much) that were present over 10 years before. As a "penniless youth" I was thinking of a cheap car to buy, but I couldn't bear to think of being seen in one of those! I got a 100E instead. But as you say, they are great to restore, admire and worth a lot of dosh now!
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Wife learned to drive in one and passed her test in it . The starter motor bendix used to stick and once when she was 8 months pregnant a garage mechanic was gobsmacked when she started to bash the starter motor with the starting handle to free it . That did it and she drove away in the snow
I see you have an external oil filter. None of my four Pops had one. Was it an option or after market? With no filter you needed to change the oil and clean the gunge out of the sump every few thousand miles, else those babbit bearings would fall apart.
Wow! This brings back memories of my earliest foray into car ownership . Three speed crash gear box I seem to remember? . Great vid, what your next prodject ??
I had the model before, the Ford Anglia, cannot remember the year, but it is /was identical to this Popular except for: Chrome front and rear bumpers, with over-riders, slightly larger headlamps, chrome edging to the side panel vents, chrome hub-caps, and from the picture [which I still have] the windscreen wiper motor was in the bottom of the screen, yours being at the top. No winkers, semaphore arms came out of the centre pillar. I loved the car, my first, PTV468, and I was one of only a few in the RAF at the time [1958] with a car. I would like to send you a photo, but I have no clue how.
Glad you liked my video I would love to see a picture of your old Anglia you would have to scan it to your computer and then send it as an attachment by email my address is michaelrodgers2@aol.com
I bet they’re more reliable than the modern Fords. Too much computer crap. My friend had a 2011 Fiesta that kept breaking down. He now drives a Moggie Minor.
Wherever their is corrosion I would reweld stainless steel Sheetmetal and in a lot larger area than needed so the problem never appears again , unless that area is flooded with something to stop the corrosion it will only reappear again further down the track , I know I have done it in the past and flooded the area with corrosion stopper but it still did not stop the corrosion , only stainless steel will do the job .
I have a front axle and wishbone with the spindles and drums, for this car , do you want them for spares ? free had a hood also but it also was given to a guy that really needed it for his restoration . It would be for a left hand drive Canada............I think I still have a engine but it was a cracked block or so I was told if I have it still and you want it it is yours .............Nice Job ..............I am doing a A40 Countryman 1951 Austin
Hi Len thanks for the offer but as the car is finished I do not need them. The Ford Sidvalve owners club might be interested they have quite a large stores their you can contact them on sparessecretary@fsoc.co.uk I have just re read your message are you in the UK? Thanks Michael
@@moosiebabe1 If you know someone doing a restore on one of these let them know as I would rather see these parts being used instead of going to the junk axle is pretty complete
As with other comments, this is a phenomenal job!
And like many commenters, there is a personal connection here. My parents bought one for my arrival in 1955. It was black with red trim, like this, and the registration was FJV 963. I still have the costs of running it as my father kept a notebook in the early days. He felt that he was a bit naive when buying it as the salesman said that ‘they all do that’ when he queried the flicking of the speedo needle. When he came to trade it in, the salesman offered less because the speedo was ‘faulty’! When in town, all you could say was that you were doing a ‘steady 20/40.’
This one looks to have been better than when it left Dagenham. Congratulations on the build quality, attention to detail and of the visual record you kept. It makes for a great film.
Notes for FJV 963
(1955-6 missing or not recorded)
1957 March 25 4044 miles
April 1st 4066 Service (5th token) near side wing resprayed
May 6th new fan belt fitted 4317 miles
June 5th oil changed (Shell X100 Mulitigrade) 4490 miles
July 23rd Service (3rd token) used 5036 miles
August 18th oil changed 5036 miles (Shell x100 Multigrade) 5927 miles
August 26th service (4th token used) draught deflectors fitted 6041 miles
November 1st free inspection by Ford mechanics at Lincs Motors 6655 miles (report received 26th Nov)
Nov 27th oil filter fitted and oil changed (Shell Multigrade x100) steering corrections checked
Dec 15th spark plugs cleaned 6798 miles
1958 3rd January speedo reading 7067 miles (so, 1957’s motoring)
81 gallons of petrol 3023 37.3 miles/gallon
Insurance £10 4shillings 5pence
Tax £9 16shillings 11pence
1959 3rd January speedo reading 11046 miles (1958’s motoring)
104 gallons petrol 38.25 miles /gallon
Insurance £9 . 14s. . 0d
Tax £9 . 16. 11d
Other years available!
1961. April 22nd car sold £225 to Lincolnshire Motors, Grimsby, in part exchange for 100E popular deluxe.
Most people would consider it a cosseted car….
Fascinating.
My brother bought a stone grey one in 1963, it was our first car. He was very happy when he did 30 mph uphill in it.
He always used the starting handle before going off to work in the mornings, and woke all the neighbours up.
Thanks for this.
I had a Ford Popular just like yours in 1966. During most of 1967 I worked on the car, but nothing like the extent you did on yours. I had it resprayed pillar box red by the paint sprayer in the workshop (I was an apprentice motor mechanic at the time) and, as in your case, had a professional fit a new headlining. Then just before Christmas 1967 my sister and I drove it from Kent to Bielefeld in Germany to spend the festivities with my sister's German penfriend's family. The journey took 10 hours in a howling blizzard across Belgium and then up from Aachen. The fan belt snapped even before we got to Dover, but we limped on to the ferry using my sister's tights to keep the dynamo charging. We managed to get a replacement fan belt on the way to Brussels, although it was actually for a tractor and stood well proud of the fan pulley. On the way back to England, again in a snowstorm, the windscreen wiper blade just blew away so we drove the rest of the way without one, with me reaching out of the driver's window to brush off accumulated snow. Another 10 hours and two punctures later we arrived back home. I had concentrated far too much on the appearance of the car and had not spent nearly enough time on the mechanicals, not even thinking of carrying a spare fan belt in the boot. It was a great adventure, though. One that my sister and I reminisced about for years afterwards.
I had a 38 Ford eight as my first car in the mid 60s. When the fanbelt fell off, the car went significantly better so I left it off until the battery got low (about a week), then refitted it for a while to charge the battery up. Another tweak was to remove the radiator fan - the engine never overheated despite being thrashed unmercifully. I have seen these engines with an external water pump fitted, but that tall radiator allowed the thermosiphon to work fine
What a rebuild... fantastic job,,, end results is rewarding and fabulous......well done
Very nice.
Apparently this was the cheapest car in the uk for a few years.
My Dad had one of these when I was a kid in the early 1960’s. My job was washing the hubcaps whilst he washed the car.
He loved it. During one hard winter it snowed so much that the Milkman couldn’t get round to do his deliveries, but the old Ford Pop just chugged through the snow no problem.
Nice to see a true restoration rather than a car turned into a v8 powered hot rod!
Very well done indeed, that’s a cracking job you’ve done there👍🤗
Superb Popular, terrific workmanship. I am sickening to get another myself.
Worked later 105e Fords in the 60s .... Vauxhalls VWs etc as a young mechanic. Your work is stunning and, i hope she goes on for another 50 odd years. WELL DONE THAT MAN.
Great job and a "PRICELESS" documentary !!!! I have wanted one of these since about the age of 13. I am 58 now I think I might be running out of time... You did a great job and thanks for posting. 😃
Wow, you have done a magnificent job! My mother had one of these when I was a kid here in New Zealand. A lot of the really cool British stuff didn't get saved, everybody wanted the US, Canadian, Australian or even New Zealand stuff. And after the UK Joined the EEC in 1973 that was good bye anything British. Some of the top end British stuff has been saved. Anyway I'd prefer to have one of these than a Japanese car of the same year... or would I? Japan makes fine products and they are great people so I won't be so hasty. However well done, it looks great and I'd be very proud of what you have done, thanks! Cheers from Down Under
Glad you liked it I have two other cars a 1927 Austin 7 and a 1973 MGB GT I like the working man's cars
Where in NZ are you? Iam in Kent UK
While I was in the US Navy in Scotland in the mid 60s a shipmate & I owned a 1954 Ford Popular just like yours.. It was great fun and drove it all over the UK.. That car served us well.
Came across your video because I searched for Ford Pop, and this was our first family car, black, in colour, not mine but my Dad's I was about 5 or 6 at the time. I distinctly remember the running boards, the handbrake, the leather seats, a choke, and the option of hand cranking to start the car if the battery was flattish because I think we had a severe winter around that time, 1958 ish?. Can remember my Dad doing that on a cold bitter morning. I also recall it had only 2 doors and I think they opened the wrong way?, ie towards the rear? can't be 100% sure on that.
It was a great pleasure to watch your video and it brought back many fond memories. That boot, I can remember Mum packing a Wicker Basket picnic case into it to so we could have sandwiches and a flask of tea on Formby beach, those were the days.
Enjoy the car, you have restored a piece of British history.
Absolutely brilliant restoration,such dedication and attention to detail,fantastic,thanks for sharing,so inspirational.
My dear mother owned a ford pop just like the one you have restored. In the winter she would cover the engine with a blanket and place a paraffin heater under the engine sump to ensure an easy start to take us kids to school.
Lovely video. It may have taken a while but the end result is truly magnificent. I remember a dark green Pop I used to pass each day on the way to school. Always thought them to be a neat small car of their day. Happy Motoring
what a lovely job, well done mate, that's what you call staying power.
Great.
Beautiful. The very first car I was introduced to in 1959 👍♥️ my Dad had a ford Pop , no child seats in those days 🙂
Nice to see a full restoration job and the Ford poplar is good for another life in shows and retirement well done
My first car, memories of my teenage years. Brings back good memories.
Hi, Thanks for posting you're interesting photo's and video clips.
i've owned one of these little motors for the last 23 years, i've always liked the look of them. It's good to see the motor finished and back on the road again.
Cheers, nice one.
I had the privilege to meet this car magician in the Eurotunnel with one of his beauties. We needed to wait 3 hours due to an incident earlier in the Eurotunnel, but this was forgotten after my baptism in pre-war car technology :) Thanks !
Excellent video. I have a 1950 Fordson 5cwt in the same condition as your 103E. Mine took 4 years to restore . The Fordson is the van version of your car, although you probably know that 👍. Big well done for saving the car
Roddy, that will be the one you acquired from Fife last century. Nice restoration too. Still looking good?
In 1958, I was 16, I had a 1951 Anglia which needed parts. I went to the local auto wrecker, bought a 1949 Anglia for 25 dollars, dragged it home, took the parts I needed, dragged the remains back to the auto wrecker and got my 25 dollars back. The Anglia was my pride and joy.
I had a blue one, bought it from a friend in Ardrossan with the differential shot. Down to the scrapyard in Prestwick and picked up a second hand one. Changed it out the next weekend and it was on the road. Cost me a fiver to buy and a couple of pounds for the rear axle. It had the semaphore direction indicators but you could buy those new fangled blinkers which could be bought at Woolworths.
Well done , my Pop is competing along very slowly , can understand the hassle with the rear window , having a rest from that now watching you vid for a clue to how it's done . Good luck with the car have fun..
Beautiful restoration you can be very proud of what you have achieved
Nice to see that.not many original like that fantastic.must be proud. My farther taught a friend to drive in one of those.must be fun with that suspension going around corners.like the side valve engine.cool
Excellent! ...lovely film of your progress...very interesting to watch.
I too have a little Pop...also in the same Rare shade of black :-)
Fantastic little cars....so pleased you made the trip to Arras with no problems.
Well done :-)
Great video and restoration. Often wonder why people bought in the 50's a new pre war designed car? For example, the later design 100E, the Morris Minor or Stsndard 10 were available. My uncle bought a new 103E sit up and beg car in mid 50's, roomy in the back but the front seats were too narrow. 50's cars had unique style!
The 103E was cheap as simple as that
no chrome bumpers one wiper every thing was basic Michael
Great work! Congratulations. Worth all that effort.
Takes me back I learned to drive in my Fathers 1952 Anglia in 1966 sadly rammed in Wolverhampton Good work
Thank you for a delightful story of your patient and painstaking restoration of this charming car. Perhaps vehicle restoration can be likened to a three dimensional jigsaw puzzle. Your reward is to go places in the completed puzzle and share it. A thing of beauty!
Brilliant. Well done. Too many of those were butchered & turned into 'hot rods'. My grandfather gave me his old Ford Prefect which was a four door version of the Popular. The registration number was POP27. I joined the RAF & when I came home on leave, my father had got the scrap man to take it away and it was in good roadworthy condition.
One has an opinion when looking at a small old car thinking oh yes that would be pretty simple to restore as they would be uncomplicated back in those days when they made that , until you see this video , and then you appreciate what was involved in the manufacture of a small car and the engineering that went into it , I would love to see the pressing of the front guards , to press that shape out of metal without it creasing is an engineering miracle , I know I am a metalworker and I know how metal fights back to change the shape and to achieve that smooth roundness is an incredible engineering feat .
Love your ‘shed’ by the way..if I had one like that, the missus would see me once every...6-7 weeks!
Thank you for sharing this video.
We, my daughtar and I are working on exatly same model "Ford Popular 104 E" just left hand driven an in Denmark.
startet 26 of may 2018- and stil working on it. ;-) hopfully it will be road ready for the 2021 seasson.
My grandpa had one. If it ever left the garage and was rained on he carefully leathered it dry before it went back. When he gave up driving the local Ford showroom in Ashford Kent bought it and displayed it in their showroom.
Was that Ashford Kent? I live 10 miles from there it would probably have been Crouchs garage
Michael
@@moosiebabe1 bang on the money! Crouch it was. My father was the General Manager at the then newly opened Batchelors Peas at Kennington and I went to Friars School at Great Chart, then a private boarding school......
@@johnfaulkner6776 Thought it must have been there.
Batchelors are still there
In what part of the country do you live know?
@@moosiebabe1 Oxford these days. Where is your 10 miles from Ashford? I think Batchelors is now quite split up as a site. In 1959 ( approx) when it opened it was just one v large factory. We were in Ashford for about 4 years and then we went to New Zealand to Birds Eye Foods also part of Unilever.
@@johnfaulkner6776 New Romney on the Romney Marsh
I have beein in the Motor trade all my life so I know Crouch garage back then.
lovely job lad, I owned one in early 60,s, the days when has kids we had fun shouting out different car makes ?? love to see kids try it now lol.
IS SHE STILL ON THE ROAD ?, what other mods did you make to her you must be very proud of your excellent work she is a beauty thank you for the video.
Yes still on the road and driviing to France next March in her
only modification are the indicators
Glad you liked the video
Have you seen the other videos on my channel?
God what a love story, You are very similar to me If a job is worth doing it is worth doing well, I also never cut corners unless something is beyond my control. If the worst comes to the worst make a new part rather than a bodge job! Well done YOUNG man, lol
beatiful machine, good job ;) looks veeerry cool that car ;)
Very well done!☘️👍
Glad you liked it
No mission is impossible...
I remember as a young 7 year old standing on the seat imagining I was stearling moss back in 1969 and there were heaps of Austin's around...
Lol I can't believe how much satisfaction I got from when you first fired her up
Great job 👏 👍
love English Fords...remembering my 1952 Anglia, 1952 Prefect, 1959 Escort, and my 1962 Anglia 105E...all fitted with left hand drive (USA) great cars....
The Popular in this videa is beautiful...
Lovely old Ford vintage car well done thank you
Minha paixão quando era guri , tenho 74 anos mas tive uma Fordson ano 1947 era a mesma mecânica eu fiz toda mecânica e lataria em 1971 deixei ela zero era boa de viajar que saudades
Que bom que gostou do vídeo e que ele trouxe de volta boas lembranças
Michael
My first road car was one of these in about 1966/7 so it was a 20 year old banger at the time and wasn't very "cool" . Fond memories now though. Well done.
My eldest brother had one of these in the 1940's in Panama.
Lovely car, and loving the War of The Worlds music!
Alex Green
Thanks for compliment pleased you like itHope to put up video of my Austin 7 and MGB later
Alex Green Sorry about that should not have "pasted" in my reply
Love the music
Great clip my first car was 1 of those brought it with a blown motor got nice lines still like them
My late Father owned a "Dagenham Donkey" just like this one!
I had one back in ‘66, bought for £10 sold a year later for £10.
A huge task well done👍
You must be a proud man👍👍👍
A nice job
Lovely old sit up and beg ! 👍
Excellent job my friend, she is a credit to you. Do you still own her? Would be nice to get an update video if you do. Cheers.
My uncle was still driving one of those in the late 1960s. Usually involved the starting handle to get it going and bits kept falling off it. How we laughed.
Brings back the time I had the ford 1953 model 10 and having to repair the body for a warrant of fitness and the brass grill.Do you find the wear on the rear wheel bearings housing on the diff?You have a great car to enjoy .
I notice that you haven't fitted a Panhard Rod to the rear suspension. Best little mod I made to my '53 Anglia which totally transformed the cornering ability and general handling.
Well done that man !!!!!!!!!!!
Just found this presentation.
The Ford Pop is my favourite sentimental car. As a tiny child I remember driving around in my mother's PoP! I like the customs....But I like the old school original better. If I could only have one car it would be a PoP. Who cares about mechanical reliability or build. gotta like a PoP
Glad you liked it
Off to France with her in March hope the weather is good
MICHAEL
Super job
Amazing my dad had 1.....just Brilliant thanks.
Incredible job and I really envy you skills, however I do have one simple suggestion for you. Those front indicators do look out of place, not because of how or where they are mounted, but because we all know a Ford of that era wouldn't have them.
Why not swap out the amber lenses for clear ones and use silvered amber bulbs?
Many cars of that era had Lucas sidelights using the exact same light unit but with a clear lens.
Brilliant job!
well done.you must be so very proud
I did enjoy that and well done on a great job. Feel a wee bit cheated we didn't actually see her running.
Pop by and I will take you for a spin when the virus is over
Michael
Interesting. I take it, with the right side steering, this is a British Ford? I am unfamiliar with the evolution of the British Fords.
Were they using all British designers and manufacturing? The 1955 hearkens back to the late 1930 American Fords.
British Ford, designed and made in England with some input from US.
This type of Ford Popular was already out of date from the day it went on sale (marketed from 1953 to 59) even in England! It was a bargain basement vehicle to help get the lower paid motoring, especially as second hand cars were still in short supply. They were seen everywhere right up until the mid-late 1960s. I personally didn't think much of them to look at - and at the time considered them silly old relics from a bye gone age. My neighbour had one - wish I'd bought one for $10 and kept it for the times we live in now! In fact, in the early 60s they were paying people to take them away for scrap as the road safety vehicle tests had just come in, and pre-war and other old cars disappeared from the UK roads almost overnight...
@@Tolpuddle581 Yep, their origins dated back to the early 30s and (to me anyway) these cars were a bit of an insult to the customer as Ford stripped out all the "de-luxe" fittings and features (which weren't much) that were present over 10 years before. As a "penniless youth" I was thinking of a cheap car to buy, but I couldn't bear to think of being seen in one of those! I got a 100E instead. But as you say, they are great to restore, admire and worth a lot of dosh now!
Great video and all work on the car, "Do you want to sell it me" I think i know the answer
Well done
Amazing. Would love that PoP
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I wouldnt know where to start. Havind said that we've just spent 8 years renovating our house.
In those days thing's Were Made to LAST
Nice work!
I love it
They don’t make em like that anymore. Dad one for our annual trip to Anglesey from Manchester 1950s.
Wife learned to drive in one and passed her test in it . The starter motor bendix used to stick and once when she was 8 months pregnant a garage mechanic was gobsmacked when she started to bash the starter motor with the starting handle to free it . That did it and she drove away in the snow
I see you have an external oil filter. None of my four Pops had one. Was it an option or after market? With no filter you needed to change the oil and clean the gunge out of the sump every few thousand miles, else those babbit bearings would fall apart.
No it is an after market fitment that I installed when I carried out the restoration
Great job done.Lots of work.ive got the T shirt.lol.
My first car
Wow! This brings back memories of my earliest foray into car ownership . Three speed crash gear box I seem to remember? . Great vid, what your next prodject ??
Synchro on 2nd and 3rd, straight cut on first. Soon learnt to double-declutch coming from 2nd to 1st!
Eradicating woodworm in your car! Fantastic...
She's a Credit to you ser.
Was the 1st car i ever had. Complete nightmare to drive. Hated it
Excelent job. Pity there was no video of her running/driving about.
Any decent original ,restored Pops for sale? 2021
Great video but why did last mot expire 8 March 2013 ?
My dad had one of these in royal blue. Are old cars road tax exempt? When I lived in Holland that was so.
I had the model before, the Ford Anglia, cannot remember the year, but it is /was identical to this Popular except for: Chrome front and rear bumpers, with over-riders, slightly larger headlamps, chrome edging to the side panel vents, chrome hub-caps, and from the picture [which I still have] the windscreen wiper motor was in the bottom of the screen, yours being at the top. No winkers, semaphore arms came out of the centre pillar. I loved the car, my first, PTV468, and I was one of only a few in the RAF at the time [1958] with a car. I would like to send you a photo, but I have no clue how.
Glad you liked my video
I would love to see a picture of your old Anglia
you would have to scan it to your computer and then send it as an attachment by email my address is michaelrodgers2@aol.com
i hope you have many hours of joy from your Pop
I’m looking for my old Pop.E93a. AMY 353.I think it was shipped to Ireland about 2000.green
I bet they’re more reliable than the modern Fords. Too much computer crap. My friend had a 2011 Fiesta that kept breaking down.
He now drives a Moggie Minor.
Known as Ford Anglia in Australia!
Wherever their is corrosion I would reweld stainless steel Sheetmetal and in a lot larger area than needed so the problem never appears again , unless that area is flooded with something to stop the corrosion it will only reappear again further down the track , I know I have done it in the past and flooded the area with corrosion stopper but it still did not stop the corrosion , only stainless steel will do the job .
Glad You Liked it to search for your old cat try the Ford Side valve owners Club www.fsoc.co.uk/
I have a front axle and wishbone with the spindles and drums, for this car , do you want them for spares ? free
had a hood also but it also was given to a guy that really needed it for his restoration . It would be for a left hand drive Canada............I think I still have a engine but it was a cracked block or so I was told if I have it still and you want it it is yours .............Nice Job ..............I am doing a A40 Countryman 1951 Austin
Hi Len thanks for the offer but as the car is finished I do not need them.
The Ford Sidvalve owners club might be interested they have quite a large stores
their you can contact them on sparessecretary@fsoc.co.uk
I have just re read your message are you in the UK?
Thanks Michael
@@moosiebabe1 If you know someone doing a restore on one of these let them know as I would rather see these parts being used instead of going to the junk axle is pretty complete
super gemacht! Danke :-)