12-05-2019, 09:30 PM
I remember that the perpendicular Fords with their double transverse leaf springs were notoriously unstable.
A friend of mine at college owned an E494 Ford Prefect (based on the pre-war Ford 10) which he drove with a considerable amount of verve. One evening several of us had been out to a pub somewhere over by Cilgerran and on the way back he managed to put the car on it's side on a rather sharp bend.
A few minutes later, a rather well-to-do man turned up in a new Landrover and helped us all put the car back on its wheels.
" You're very lucky lads" said the man. " It doesn't seem to have come to much harm." "No." replied my friend. "It never does !"
A friend of mine at college owned an E494 Ford Prefect (based on the pre-war Ford 10) which he drove with a considerable amount of verve. One evening several of us had been out to a pub somewhere over by Cilgerran and on the way back he managed to put the car on it's side on a rather sharp bend.
A few minutes later, a rather well-to-do man turned up in a new Landrover and helped us all put the car back on its wheels.
" You're very lucky lads" said the man. " It doesn't seem to have come to much harm." "No." replied my friend. "It never does !"