Ford Anglia

This little beauty was sitting in the car corral at the Beloit Autorama, a large, regional car show in southern Wisconsin, earlier this fall. The Autorama is cosponsored by the Coachmen Street Rod Club and the Blue Ribbon Classic Chevy Club and is, as you would expect, heavy on muscle cars and pretty light on 1950s British compacts. Needless to say, this 1958 Ford Anglia stuck out like the proverbial sore thumb among the Camaros and Trans Ams that were for sale in the corral.

The little Anglia was actually in pretty good shape. Body panels were nice and straight and the interior looked original and was in surprisingly nice shape. The only blemish was a small area of surface rust on a lower rear fender. I didn’t ask the seller to fire it up, but the engine compartment looked very clean and original. Notice that it is left-hand drive, so it was built for export either to the Continent or to the United States.

--M.D.