Same as me! I come from the I.O.W, and when I lived there we still had our own DL registration. I passed my test there and had my first of many Fords, an Anglia 105E. Put a 1500 Cortina GT engine and box in it.Wrote it off racing my mate in his MGB GT!!
There was a bloke who had a Consul Classic which he had modified and I remember being so jealous of his twin 40 dcoe side draught Webers!!! Two a penny now on most modified classic Fords but back then there were not many people who could afford them.
Been a Ford man ever since.