Not that it means anything but I am glad you understand where I was going. I wish you the best of luck. Wait till you see the Anglia my cousin is building. It's a Pro Street car but very radicle VERY RADICLE!! It's going to be a handful!
once you get it together you will know real quick if you want the nose up for the look and weight transfer, neat car! what a deal.
only thing is the car was never blown had only a 150 progressive hit of gas and the first vid it was fitted with a old shitter of a 402 that died the day of the vid as for a decent track it ran some quick times on the good tracks like 10 0s and as stated street trim not a light car all steel it lived up to expectations and was still getting quicker when it was recently sold due to the owner having big health issues
My suggestions are to look at a lot of other Anglias and find a color that you like. I remember seeing them run in the early 60's and they had the front ends up in the air and some were high in the front and back. Some were injected, some were blown and some were blown and injected. As far as destroying the car's original character, that was done when the original engine, trans, etc. was removed ! It was original when it came from the factory. After the car was changed into a hotrod, its originality was lost. I don't think that your car is a museum piece so build it like YOU want it. It is your car and your money; don't let anybody make you feel guilty if you build it YOUR way instead of how THEY would build it. If you want to recreate a 60's gasser or a modern streetrod or a combination, just do it. Do your homework so that you build a safe car. I can remember in the 60's that some cars had the front suspensions changed from straight axles to independent front ends and others changed from independent front suspensions to straight axles. The cars were built to suit the owners. I remember a 37 Ford pickup with a Corvair independent front end and a 55 Chevy with a straight axle under the front. And your car has probably had many changes done by its different owners. And it has probably been several different colors. As far as a name, just study the car and see what seems to fit. After you have spent many hours working on it a name might come to you. With its nose in the air you could call it "Nose Job" or "Sophisticated". With the hump on the back (the trunk) you could call it "Clyde The Camel". But you will probably find an appropriate name after you have worked on it for a few hundred hours.
yellow anglias might look on here... http://dragnut.smugmug.com/gallery/4257101_8N7LQ/1/260707219_Kg3CQ#P-1-12
How about "Old Yeller"? Check out these Anglias 4 sale on the Hamb Classifieds drag or street ready, pm me for more info
there used to be a big block ? injected anglia years ago at the former" des moine dragway"and "cedar falls track " it was also yellow callede "YELLOW PAGES" MIND BLOWING got me hooked on anglias!
My 48 pop gasser is "ski-doo" yellow stretched 4.5" 8.71 blow 509" chevy and is (affectionately) called "angie"
Just a little correction here, They never had any rules about how fast the Anglia could go, that is a bunch of horseshit, A lot of the heavy hitters ran Anglias and they wouldn't bother with them if there was a rule against it, the wheelbase on a 1940 Willys is 102", 37-9 is 100" and 41-2 is 104". As for the car, do what you want with it, the car has no real history to it in the sense of, no one famous owned the car. However, you can keep the style of the car traditional to what it was, and paint it to whatever color you want, lower it if it makes you feel safe or whatever. You are still preserving the car for the future. I own a Willys pick up that has some history to it, it was raced in CA BB/Gas with a blown small block, Bob Panella Sr. remembers racing against my truck a lot at Freemont, it is in the Gasser files video vol. 2 twice, once in the 60's and once in the 80's, plus a few magazines. I've raced the truck myself for a few years, It still doesn't have history. You should look at the Shores and Hess "Skippers Critter", Kohler bros. "King Kong", etc... Those were both hard running.
I like Anglia's good or bad. The only thing I see wrong is that even after it is all put together I don't see the front end coming down much from the arch in the springs, I maybe wrong. I know a man here in Indy that has one that high and unless your 7 feet tall and your head hits the roof you can not see to drive it, I really don't see any advantage to them being that high, and I don't remember that many being that high in the 60s and 70s when I was drag racing. Just my opinion.
Well, there sort of was in that Anglia's and other short wheelbase cars were banned from being Supercharged in the early days of the Gasser classes. NHRA eventually gave in when a bunch of Exhibition and Outlaw cars started drawing big crowds at other tracks, so they rewrote the rules.
paint it purple and call it "purple haze" like in Purple haze down in my brain . . . it fits the era of the car perfectly.
hi guys ,sorry to edge in here BUT i have" skeletol"remains of an anglia drag car called "felix the cat " from des moines iowa area ? was running a flathead motor in the glory days ?anybody remember it ?thanks "carryallman" at "anglia central " norwalk iowa
Looks like it might be a little too high in the front... might be ill handleing. Wheel base on these pocket rockets were unforgiving when they got loose on the big end
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