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More than one million of these beauties were made. The Anglia was Fords top small car until it's replacement by the Escort in 1968. It had a roomy body with the reversed angle rear window giving a raised roofline for better headroom for the rear seat passengers. The engine was a new design known as the Kent with oversquare bore to stroke ratio and good breathing. It may not have had the style of the mini, but it had more space, a better, more modern engine design and was highly profitable for Ford whereas British Leyland lost money on each mini sold.
On track the Anglia was very successful. For many years the up to one litre saloon and up to 1300cc saloon classes were dominated by the Ford Anglia, Hillman Imp and BMC / British Leyland Mini.
For many years the Anglia was the car that many young fast drivers chose because it was cheap, easy to tune and looked very beefy with big arches. It was easy to replace the front drum brakes with discs from larger contemporary Ford models. Engine swaps were common, particularly fitting later, larger Ford units from the Cortina the Lotus Cortina lump and even 289 or 302 Ford V8's. Every street in the UK seemed to be home to some young hooligan with a fat arched, noisy, tuned Anglia like the one below.
I would like to be able to recreate those classic saloon car races of the 1960's with the Mini, Anglia and Hillman Imp. It would also be great to be able to recreate that fantastic fat arched Anglia look - for some reason it always looked meaner and moodier than the Escort which replaced it!
On track the Anglia was very successful. For many years the up to one litre saloon and up to 1300cc saloon classes were dominated by the Ford Anglia, Hillman Imp and BMC / British Leyland Mini.
For many years the Anglia was the car that many young fast drivers chose because it was cheap, easy to tune and looked very beefy with big arches. It was easy to replace the front drum brakes with discs from larger contemporary Ford models. Engine swaps were common, particularly fitting later, larger Ford units from the Cortina the Lotus Cortina lump and even 289 or 302 Ford V8's. Every street in the UK seemed to be home to some young hooligan with a fat arched, noisy, tuned Anglia like the one below.
I would like to be able to recreate those classic saloon car races of the 1960's with the Mini, Anglia and Hillman Imp. It would also be great to be able to recreate that fantastic fat arched Anglia look - for some reason it always looked meaner and moodier than the Escort which replaced it!
