RED ALERT: Ford Prefect FANATICS wanted!

aare

...and I use the word "fanatics" advisedly.

Copying this from Motors Forum:

I have just found the weirdest thing while strimming weeds in a long neglected corner...the front of the bonnet of a Ford Prefect. Creepy to be honest cos it looks as though it is trying to "rise from the grave" (right next to an ancient burial ground too).

The front badge, and the airplane thingy that sits on the nose like a Rolls Royce lady are easily accessible and in pretty good, recoverable nick (as in, the formerly immaculate chrome is blistered, but otherwise sound)...

But there is more, because the bonnet is sitting at the front of a kind of hump and has an opening underneath with signs of more metal (and a wheel rusted through in places on the surface) that leads me to wonder if the whole darn thing isn't buried there somewhere, since the late sixties, though your guess is as good as mine how much is recoverable, the part of the bonnet I can see isn't too bad, but I can see other, truly mangled (since discovering the photos, one of thes would seem to be the front bumper, and if so, MAY be recoverable), bits too.

Apart from the badges, which I am sure somebody, somewhere would kill for, I don't have a clue how much of this is, or is not, of any use to a fanatic, but if it is, I am sure we can discuss the possibility of excavating, as long as the ground is left fairly level after with any scrap metal buried or carted away.

I don't want any money for this, I just have a soft spot for classic and vintage cars. This seems to be a model from between the 30s and 50s, but I am going to try and check and will post photo if I find.

And this seems to be it A Post War Prefect e493a:
http://www.classic-fords.co.uk/photo_ford_prefect_e493a_in_black.htm

Or the earlier e93a (very similar):
http://www.motorbase.com/profiles/vehicle/picture.ehtml?i=1257;p=-1719110462

Though neither has the kind of wheel I found.

...and before some bright spark asks...though I cannot see the windscreen, no, I do NOT believe it has an NCT .

On consideration, and looking at the lie of the land, from the right angle (first shave it's had in decades) I see a strong possibility that most of the car may be loosely buried there as earth was shoved against it, rather than actually piled on it. Also, from the appearance of the rusted wheel which is nothing LIKE any wheel I see on the photo of a Prefect (6 or 8 wide spokes on a car sized wheel, bit like [URL=http://]http://www.tsw.com/new/images/wheels/razor_front.jpg[/URL] , but flatter) , there could be a LOT of vintage parts there, pretty well preserved, because it used to be a corner of a feed store of some kind, so they'd be packed with turf or straw and may only have the thinnest crust of earth and grass over them (in fact it occurs to me that I shouldn't stand where I think the car is because it might cave in under me).

I'm not selling these parts, I just want to see them preserved and used properly.

series40

aare wrote:

...and I use the word "fanatics" advisedly.

Copying this from Motors Forum:



On consideration, and looking at the lie of the land, from the right angle (first shave it's had in decades) I see a strong possibility that most of the car may be loosely buried there as earth was shoved against it, rather than actually piled on it. Also, from the appearance of the rusted wheel which is nothing LIKE any wheel I see on the photo of a Prefect (6 or 8 wide spokes on a car sized wheel, bit like [URL=http://]http://www.tsw.com/new/images/wheels/razor_front.jpg[/URL] , but flatter) , there could be a LOT of vintage parts there, pretty well preserved, because it used to be a corner of a feed store of some kind, so they'd be packed with turf or straw and may only have the thinnest crust of earth and grass over them (in fact it occurs to me that I shouldn't stand where I think the car is because it might cave in under me).

I'm not selling these parts, I just want to see them preserved and used properly.

What ever happened to these parts? Is there anything left? I have a 1949 model.

aare

The parts are still there Series40, just another year older. I have found out since that's it the whole body of the car but a lot of parts were taken off before it was buried. There is no guarantee of what it there...or not there, but it's free if you have the stamina and/or a JCB to dig it out

series40

How intriguing. Have you any photo's? Please send them to
series40@mailcan.com if you do.