Anglia 105E Deluxe
Classic Ford|March 2017

Classic Fords restored: Some things are not only worth waiting for, but best left alone, too. Just ask Nick Horridge who now owns one of the best sympathetically-restored Anglias in the UK.

Jon Cass
Anglia 105E Deluxe

We’ve come across many immaculate, standard Anglia 105Es in our time, but when we first clapped eyes on Nick Horridge’s 1962 Deluxe it became immediately obvious he’d taken his own example to the next level. Look anywhere on this car and it’s like you’ve been taken right back to a Ford showroom over half a century ago. But as Nick points out, this project began some 25 years ago, so he’s had plenty of time to perfect things.

Since 1991, Nick has run Newford Parts based in Abbey Village, Lancashire, a business set up by his father John in 1974 to supply new-old stock Ford parts to the public. Since that time the turnover of the family business has increased dramatically and it’s always been Nick’s ambition to restore an Anglia saloon to a concours standard.

In 1993 he located and restored a 1964 Thames 7CWT van to use as a promotional vehicle for Newford Parts and he still has this today. Yet, it was the Thames’s saloon sister that Nick was keen to have a concours example of, but the end result would be a long time coming.

“When I first purchased the van, I had the vision of restoring a saloon and would spend the next 20 years collecting all the necessary parts to create a car I’d be happy with,” Nick confesses, “I did all this with the knowledge I didn’t even have a base for the project yet!”

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