On Sun, 25 Sep 1994 MsScrumpy@aol.com wrote:
> All,
> Looking for owners and/or former owners of early 60's Anglia sedans.
I had a 60 or 61 Anglia sedan with the reverse slant rear window (which
was an excellent idea). I think I bought it in 64; I do remember for sure
that I paid $312.50 for it. That was cheap, even then. The car had
supposedly been bought second hand in St. Louis by a fellow who was used
to large 'murican cars. He started for Chicago in it, but when an 18
wheeler passed him and he saw the hubcaps spinning mere inches from his
nose, he stopped at the first town he came to and traded it for a large
Chevy. At least, that's the story he gave the dealer. When I started it
for a test drive, it only ran on 3 cylinders, and that may have had
something to do with his sudden decision to trade. Since the market for 3
cylinder Anglias was soft in the Illinois hinterlands, I was able to
bargain aggressively. I was a cheap, stingy, penny-pinching, University
type, even then.
After a valve job got it running on all 4 again, it was a nice little car.
Right after servicing, it would smoke copiously on hard turns, which I
eventually figured out was the oil bath air cleaner spilling oil into the
intake. Also, the vinyl upholstery tended to turn brown in a form of
controlled spontaneous combustion if the car was left in the St. Louis
sun with the windows slightly shut. At that, though, it was better than
my dad's Renault Dauphine; on a hot St. Louis day its tail light lenses
melted.
I remember it fondly, and if another shows up in decent shape for $312.50
I will probably buy it. Well, maybe not, $312.50 is enough to buy two
Harris tweed jackets, if you wait for the end of the season sale and buy
the cheap ones without elbow patches. On the other hand, I still have the
service manual for the car, and by buying another I could spread the cost
of the manual over two cars...
Ray "Epoxy is good enough, its only a brake line" Gibbons
Ray Gibbons Dept. of Molecular Physiology & Biophysics
UNIVERSITY of Vermont College of Medicine, Burlington, VT
gibbons@northpole.med.uvm.edu (802) 656-8910
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