When I was in high school a guy built the same thing with a 283 in it. He also fashioned '59 Caddy fins on the back by extending the trunk 15". Cops don't like bumper dragging wheelies off the light on public roads.
Whodathunk?
When I was in high school a guy built the same thing with a 283 in it. He also fashioned '59 Caddy fins on the back by extending the trunk 15". Cops don't like bumper dragging wheelies off the light on public roads.
Whodathunk?
With a little detail work, that would be awesome. Is that an Anglia? SBF? Better hook up the radiator hose, though. Maybe some headers, too. Work in progress, I guess.
maybe a prefect?
I like the early fox mustang wheels on that.
Prefect, I think. Parked behind an Alfa 156.
Distributor looks wrong for SBF.
The engine looks awfully like a Rover V8 with some blue paint on the valve covers to me. It's a very popular engine over here as it is reasonably easy to find and has been chucked into pretty much any car imaginable.
Will wrote: Distributor looks wrong for SBF.
Not a windsor, not a flat head. most likely not a ford.
What kind of car is it?
Most likely a Ford Prefect. As mentioned above, I'm pretty sure the engine is a Rover/Buick V8.
That wouldn't be a certain garage in the Saratoga Springs area, would it? 
Is that a Nailhead?
It's a Prefect. My first car was a white one with red interior, paid $70 for it.
No, not in my garage.
Definately not a nail head. Those have weird valve covers- vertical.
Close, it's a Buick smallblock. They have the distributor at the proper end and were a replacement for the nailhead engines.
Lighter than a SBC by a bit and make lots of torque.
The Buick 215 IS the Rover V8 isn't it?
Rover bought the rights to manufacture the Buick 215, yes.
In reply to BoxheadTim:
Bought the rights back in the mid 60s I think. I had a '67 Rover TC & when the 3500 came out the last Rover dealer in NC tried to get me into one. I think that was one of the 1st uses of the Buick V8 in Brit. cars. Must've been around 1970.
In reply to M2Pilot:
Rover first used it in the P5 in the late sixties. The model you're referring to - the P6 was a lot more popular, at least here in the UK. I had a V8/Auto (they also made a manual version but that's a lot rarer) about five years ago. Liked it a lot but had to sell it when I bought a house...
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