Thread: Despicably Devious behaviour...

I was tricked by a mate of mine who drove a pajero. I thought to myself: I'll do a Clarkson "'cause I drive a land rover!" and then I found out. I do own a spare P38 right now too

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Originally Posted by V8Ian

Quite right John. Wasn't the 103E ute sold here as the Popular coupe utility?

Possibly, but I certainly don't remember it - Prefect utes, but I do not remember the Popular, although checking with Wikipedia, it seems that it was sold here.

As you now agree, what was shown was undoubtedly an Anglia, not a Prefect.

I never had anything to do with either of them, but I remember the Prefect because it had similar styling to the larger and far less common Austin 16 that my father bought (S/H) in 1953, and I remember describing it to schoolfriends as similar looking to the common Prefect.

Originally Posted by JDNSW

As you now agree, what was shown was undoubtedly an Anglia, not a Prefect.

If I recall correctly, the Prefect had 4 doors, the Anglia had 2. The Ford in the pic has 2 doors.

I believe the Popular lacked running boards, a second windscreen wiper and other such extravagants, supplied on the Prefect and Anglia.
You're right Ron, the Prefect was basically a four door Anglia, the Popular was a pov-pac Anglia.

Originally Posted by V8Ian

Your "mate" would have been popular at the time.

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Very droll…. My old Defect was a ‘54 100E. The mate who I ended up swapping it for the SI went on to collect a few Roots Group cars and an Armstrong of some type. He still occasionally drives my old 100E.

In today’s terms the Popular was the poverty pack option