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Originally posted by Keith Webb
THAT's the identical model we ran over; it was a cream colour and completely intact! If only we had known... it was in 1974, mind you.

I must tell Ballard, the bluish tinged garage air from the copious usage of basic Anglo-Saxon that accompanied the restoration of this bit of joke Ford "Engineering" is still dispersing even though the vehicle left these parts in as-new condition for the owners safe keeping several months ago.

In truth many of the missing parts were in the towing van unseen here but it was still an 18 month full-time restoration.

Knowing how crude and skimpy these particular Fords were, we are amazed that they had the gall to market them in Oz and as a ute too. At least you got the "powerful" 1172cc sv engine, all ours here had the 903cc lump and with a 3 speed gearbox were the definition of gutless.

Nevertheless, I do believe its the only restored and driving Oz Prefect/Pop ute in the country here.

I still have my first car, albeit covered in blackberries and inhabited by a red belly black snake, a 1959 Singer Gazelle Estate.

Gosh! I'd forgotten all about those, quite a following here and not altogether bad for its day. Now your wildlife is something else, most of it seems hell bent on killing you somehow.

Blackberries we have in quantity, my Stolly field has a huge crop of escaped, cultivated ones that Ballard jr jealously guards and picks daily before the birds have them. Mrs Ballard is then coerced into rendering this into blackberry jelly at the rate of some 60 jars a year. This is inadequate for their household, mine, and the MV chums who have suddenly acquired a serious taste for the stuff and return empty jars for a service exchange, as it were.

R.