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[Sysman]

I remember being deeply unimpressed with the late 50s version with its glorious pneumatic windscreen wipers.

They were indeed painful.

Could you speed 'em up by changing down a gear?

I've forgotten.

And the Wiki entry claims the Pop only had 3 of 'em so that might have been tricky.

[Gittins Gal]

My Dad's first brand new motor was a Ford Pop.



I'm impressed. It was our job as kids to bang on the door pillar when the semaphores got stuck.

I remember those, weren't they also called trafficators or something? My grandpa had an early Morris Oxford that had those. It was like a large Morris Minor basically & they were in a permanent state of being stuck.

Always used hand signals. Right arm out to turn right, a move like a Royal wave with your right hand to indicate a left turn and flapping your right arm like the wing of a seagull to indicate you were stopping.

[suityou01]

I remember being deeply unimpressed with the late 50s version with its glorious pneumatic windscreen wipers.

Zeity to be fair your first car as probably the flintstonemobile

[Sysman]

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Sounds like an excellent way to throw £150k down the tubes.

My Dad's first brand new motor was a Ford Pop.

Fully road legal even down to the working semaphors.

I'm impressed. It was our job as kids to bang on the door pillar when the semaphores got stuck.

The speedo went up to 90 but the top speed was 60.

If you got to 60 it was a bit "all over the road" apparently.

[Gittins Gal]

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Sounds like an excellent way to throw £150k down the tubes.

£49k as it happens.

Chap up the road drives one of these



What's not to like about that? Thnk if I had a choice of a classic car I'd go for one of those.

[vetran]

BIL used to have one, it was all original, odd to drive with lack of real synchromesh and limited power. Beautiful though.

[zeitghost]

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Sounds like an excellent way to throw £150k down the tubes.