Old Fords appear to be multiplying, here our 1948 Ford Prefect (E93A type) says hello and I talk a little about the plans for it.
In a nutshell, the "garage find" Prefect has been off the road for 50+ years, the long-term owner from the early 1970s until earlier this year took it in lieu of a bad debt all those years ago, and simply put it to one side in his garage, where it remained. In recent times he did a little work to it, primarily to the engine, but otherwise it's exactly "as parked", warts-n-all. I tried to buy this Ford Prefect previously, just missed out, then the new owner contacted me just a few months later offering me the car at the price he paid, which I accepted.
As I mentioned in a vid earlier in 2021, this year I'm trying to simplify things, by reducing the number of large projects on the go and also try to stick to fewer totally different cars, so that spares etc can apply to more than one vehicle.
The E93A Prefect first went on sale in 1938, so this is very much a pre-war car albeit in this case built shortly after WW2. Power is courtesy of the 1172cc "10hp" sidevalve engine. Production halted due to the war, then re-commenced in around 1945 before being replaced in 1948/9 by the E493A Prefect - a very similar car but with different front end styling (headlights incorporated into the wings, different grille etc).
("E93A" also denotes the 1172cc 10hp engine fitted to various models either side of the war, latest being the Ford Popular 103E).
The differences between the pre-war E93A Prefects and the post-war cars are minimal. For example, the late-1930s Prefects have 17" rather than 16" wheels (I'll probably swap to 17"s), a different dashboard, they had more bulbous headlamp lenses, and up until October '47 the grille was painted metal rather than chromed mazak. Other minor changes also took place post-WW2, but only in detail only, fundamentally the cars of the 1930s and 1940s were very similar indeed here in the UK.
Hopefully the commonality of parts and maintenance between the E93A, the E494A Anglia, and the other similar Ford 8s and 10s I've had over the years, will speed up the hopeful re-commissioning on this old survivor, when compared to taking on a car I've never owned before. That's the theory.
While these old Fords are decidedly low-tech, slow, and were really quite out-classed by much of the competition by the dawning of the 1950s, they proved to be simple and dependable cars for motorists on a budget throughout the 1940s, 1950s and often into the 1960s. No fuss, no frills, motoring for the masses. Their simple charm is much of their appeal to me, and has been since the first E83W I stumbled across and managed to buy back in 1989.
Comments welcomed as always, please consider subscribing to the channel (don't forget the notifications bell!) if you've not done so already, and hopefully I'll have updates on this mini-project going forward. The plan for the Ford Prefect is to get it back into roadworthy condition again, preserving its aged look rather than a full classic car restoration. It won't be re-painted, it'll simply be tidied up, same for the interior, with the running gear overhauled and checked as necessary - "oily rag".
Thanks for watching & reading.
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