What I love about this series is how warm and honest it is. It is so cleverly done, it genuinely feels like I am just there, enjoying a chat and a cuppa whilst tinkering - the production and editing required to make it feel that way can't be underestimated. Consistently charmed by the situations and the stories - Thank you Jonny.
I noticed about 20 years ago some American car shows started every return from an ad break with a 5 minute recap of what had happened previously ("Stop wasting time - I'm not a bloody idiot, I saw all this 10 minutes ago!"). Now it's everywhere on everything - or at least what I bother to watch now (which is maybe a couple of hours a week).
@@TheLateBrakeShow You definitely need to go back soon. Or organise taking it to a workshop for the repairs. This guy more than deserves to see his car on the road and drive it ❤️
Can't wait to see the follow up on this one, amazing 👍 If only Ford engines where still so easy to repair/replace.. given the multiple issues we have today.. ( trust me I know what I'm talking about, I'm a focus owner🤣)
What a gem of an episode. Loved Murray and it is clear that you just scratched the surface of his vault of wonderful stories. Those Lambrettas were the icing on a very tasty cake. Hats off Jonny.
Murray is one of those blokes who you meet in a beer tent and you spend the next few hours roaring with laughter, before crawling away after far too much ale.
The legend that is Murray Brown. I had the pleasure of meeting him when he was chair of the North Yorks Moors Railway, talking trains to a fellow enthusiast (I'm still the chair of the KWVR) . He's so knowledgeable and skilled... those mopeds are simply stunning.
What a great chap Murray is, you can tell he’s been dying to talking about the Pop to someone for years! Would love to see a follow up of him out and about in it.
Thank you Kari. We have the final barnfind episode for #BarnFindFebruary #bff going out on Sunday. Glad you've enjoyed this mini series for the shortest month.
I worked on one like this in the late 1950's or 1960-1. The inlet valves were know to stick. It took about an hour to get all the inlet and outlet manifolds off. Sometimes we also had to take the head off as the terrible petrol would leave carbon chunks, (not deposits) on the valve seats and they would not close. Another great video Jonny. Oh, and here in Australia we had termites that would attack the car and the interior would fall through into a pile on the ground.
This is my favourite episode ever, so many personal links to my youth and Murray is such a brilliant man. He bought this car a couple of months before I was born, my Grandad had the same car (year and colour) and used to bring it out in the summer months every year in the late 70's and early 80's and I loved it, funniest thing of all is my Nana hated the thing. Thanks to all of you for the memories and laughs.
I think we all just fell in love with Murray.. What a fab Character and great stories. This is another Vid that's right up there Jonny. You have to do a revisit on this one. Would be great to see it cleaned up and ticking over on the drive.. Get back there and get the dizzy out and the jet wash and wax on. Really enjoyed this one.
Flashback moment - maybe. I'm sure Murray is a volunteer with the North York Moors Railway and appeared in one of their videos working on another pride and joy - a Gresley passenger carriage which his group were restoring. I'd love to know whether I'm right. If I am he was as humorous and witty in that clip as he is in this video. His dry and pungent comments about attitudes towards rail enthusiasts as opposed to, say, anglers or especially golfers, have always brought a smile to my face whenever I re-watch the DVD.
My Dad had a black Ford Popular in the early 1960's. I was put in the back of it as a toddler. I have vivid memories of journeys home in the Ford and the rich smell of it when it was cold and on full choke. There are plenty of photos of me in the Ford Pop! Eventually my dad traded it in for an Austin A40 bought from 'Kings of Oxford' in Bromborough.
My grandad had a ford pop!!! I was still a tiny kid at the time but i sure remember him taking us out for a drive on sunday.. the best part of the week for me....
That pin sticking out by the fan belt below the oil filler is the timing tool. Unscrew it, flip it round and push the long pin end back into its hole, theres a dimple in the cam gear that tells you when it's on tdc. Also, the wood floor panels were allegedly made from the crates the engines came in. I've got a genuine in a barn e04a that hasn't seen daylight or run in over 20 years, but dont get your hopes up, I know it needs another engine due to extreme death rattle.....
What a lovely old thing. This will be fantastic when it's up and running. Would love something like this tucked away for sunny evening jaunts down to the local pub. Great stuff.
What a treat this is! In 1967 we moved from Leicester to Basingstoke. The family car, soon to be replaced by a new 1.3 cortina was as a black Ford Popular SAY808. It was already venerable by this time and had been driven all over the UK, including many missions across North Wales and all the way to the North of Scotland. Sadly, after arrival in Basingstoke, it never worked again after a failed MOT. We were told that Dad couldn't find Tyres for it and it was left on the drive to steadily rust away. My brother and I used it as a den for years and years. I remember listening to the rain on the roof and hiding from my parents behind the front seats! Sometime in the early 1980's, the Popular was sold to an 'enthusiast' for conversion into a HotRod and never seen again. However, the number plate, SAY808 lived on and was seen on 5 Lada's, 2 Proton's, and at least two Toyotas until about 5 years ago when my father passed away! Thank you for an excellent revival. Please come back and do a part 2!!
These videos bring us to the people of their cars, who have cherished these objects of transportation for decades. Murray is another exponent of a life lived with his passion for motoring, and what a lovely chap he was too. Fantabulous video again Johnny, and your great approach to bringing these amazing barn finds into our worlds.
I’m in love ❤ This makes my Renault 4TL look modern 😂 Please don’t make us wait too long before you get back to this little cutie! I really want to see her run.
Thanks for such a fun video a lovely time travel for my wife and I. She ; remembering family camping trips in their Pop. Boot crammed full, tent, bedding and stuff on the back seat with just enough room for her to lie on the top of it all, mom and dad in the front smoking, such fun. It was only as an adult she realized that if they had ever hit anything head on in the Pop she would have exited through the front windscreen! For me I was delightfully surprised when the scooters were revealed, I had one of the old 1959 models with that deadly fixed light, definitely not good for navigating twisty country roads at night. It was a clapped-out old beast, I had to turn the choke back on to pass anybody on a bike. Only had it six months till the back wheel fell off. But we survived to this day :o)
Just when I think you can't out do the last barn find...you bolt it over the park. This was such a great watch. Thank you for this wholesome, amazing content (that isn't just the standard TH-cam "hey guys, just bought another new Lamborghini").
Amazing what it was back then, the necessity for transportation in a war time. Steel was not available as readily so cloth top, wooden floor boards, save where you can. People need to get around but it didn't need an advance motor. 10hp is more than enough to go 25 30 MPH, hell I have a riding lawn mower with 18HP motor that is a century advanced from this thing, but this is where it all came from!! Amazing find, really glad he reached out to you for this video!! Thanks so much!
Jonny . Back in 1970 as a 17 year old, a friend who was a mechanic was asked to take a popular to the scrappers . I was given the task of being the driver and Russell towed with his MGA ! He told me if it drove into the scrappers as a runner he'd get another £5 . So l just put it top and off we went ! It was 6 miles to the scrapman and literally as we got within a few hundred yards the old girl coughed into life ! ......l never got a share of the extra £5 ! Cheers Jonny .
This takes me back to my youth , my mum had one in black KPL 937 , must have spent some of my formative years crank starting it! Still remember the smell of old car interior and the three speed box.
A double whammy in a way, I love Murray’s enthusiasm and love for these machines!, Murray’s of the world are lovely to meet, the world is a much better place, I m not into scooters, but those looked fabulous! A great episode!
Please go back Johnny, would love to see this running and driving if possible, I could listen to Murray's stories all day he seems a very nice character.
Just what the doctor ordered! A nice new video by my favourite TH-camr. Thank you Jonny. Your work (and your team's) is highly appreciated! Greetings from the Netherlands
When I was a nipper , about 1982, my grandparents had one of these, jet black… remember it was in their garage. Interestingly, my Grandfather was a stoker or fireman on the great weastern railway and also an enthusiast. Then funnily enough my uncle still has and rides Lamberettas!! Funny old world, would love an update to see if that great chap Murray gets it going, would be great to see the smile on his face! Cheers Johnny.
There's still some old American 50's Pops(complete with the 3-hole Export" Grill....) Still here in people's back Yards and out in the Desert"just parked."
Love Murray, proper character with a good stories 👏 Could have been my Dad he passed on Sutton Bank, he had a weedy Cortina 1300 that loved to overheat !
What a beautiful episode, would be nice to see this have a basic and roadworthy restoration for this lovely chap, this car has lived a life and this chap has many stories to tell with it and I absolutely love the scooters, here's a chap who loves his vehicles and I'm sure he'll have a smile like a Cheshire cat being able to get back behind the wheel of this car, I even think his wife will join him now and like this car, a lovely video
Not sure how I stumbled across this channel, but I dig the content. It's has its own flavor and I love the fact that the timeline has EVERY part of the video separated with its own marker. BRILLIANT!!!
I have a Ford Pop in my barn, was my dad’s retirement project but he never managed to do it so it’s now my challenge to get it done before the grim reaper comes calling. One of many projects. Probably not run for 40+ years and engine doesn’t turn now 😢
Loved this! I still have fond memories of my dad’s Standard Vanguard, in that 1950s grey that is now so popular! Including helping him crank it into life in freezing conditions when fetching my mum from gran’s - can still see and ‘feel’ the silent snowy street under the old sodium lights as he tried to spin it alive. I used to help him clamp and wire in the parking light - a two colour torpedo shaped one that had by law to be put on the roadside roofline (rain gutter) at night. How things have changed. I loved that car; he used to sit me on his knee and let me steer it as a 2 year old!
My dad bought one of these in about 1969 from a mate who worked at the gas board. £39.00 he ran it until 1981, when he bought his 2nd car, a 1.1L FORD fiesta 1980. I drove the pop a couple of times & have been double-de-clutching ever since. !
The Popular was born from the '37 to '38 7W Ten (longer wheelbase as per Prefect with flat rear & spare wheel recessed), which bore the shorter wheelbase Anglia in '39 (still with recessed spare wheel). '39 saw the introduction of the boot hump & then in '53 it became the more basic Popular until it was replaced with the 100e (formerly Anglia) in '59, but unregistered stragglers were finally sold by '62!! Yes Jonny, I am a nerd having had a few sit up & beg Pops & Prefects 🤣🤣 Cheers. Leigh.
Cars from this era are not usually my bag but I think this barn find is my favourite so far, what a great story what a lovely honest old car and Murray what a wonderful storyteller! to finish off with the lambretta's was magic. Well done Jonny and nice to see your bro back smashing job 👍
Murray is a legend, please consider getting him back on the show for another video! Really enjoyed this episode, in fact I think this is one of my favourite barn finds! Lovely stuff guys
What a great video. Beautiful car. Super owner. There is a reason for the wood floors and the fabric roof. There likely was no press large enough to fabricate the roof and floor plans in single pieces.
Hi Jonny - great episode especially as my first car was a 1953 Ford Anglia - basically a deluxe Poplar in that it had chrome headlight bezels, two windscreen wipers and a 12 volt system. My dad and I bought it second hand in 1961 on hire purchase and think it cost £350. Dad couldn't drive and I wasn't old enough to drive it when we bought it but that didn't stop me driving round the lanes!!! I'd learnt to drive on my schoolfriend's farm - they had a little grey Fergie! During the time that we had the Anlglia I, with the help of a friend who was an apprentice mechanic, renewed the big end bearings - they weren't shells and had to be re-metalled. I also had to replace the clutch. Incidently it was the same green colour as Murray's car. Thanks to the three of you for takig me down memory lane.
The Great Murray brown lovely bloke . Worked with him on The Nymr. What he doesn’t know isn’t worth knowing.. True Gentleman so it would be a great feat & a bit of magic & watch his face light up
My mate has an earlier model of this a 1936 Ford 8, BDL800 which is still in use which he found in a field in the 70s and sorted out with parts mainly from the Beaulieu Auto jumbles
Nice find Jonny 👍🏻 Mr Brown is a character too, if a bit henpecked 🤣 As a young man my father's first car was a Ford Pop. He and his mates used to drive from Lowestoft to southern Ireland to go on holiday, fishing. He must have been mental 🤣 Then again when he married my mum his car went and a Lambretta 150 was purchased and they both used to go from Lowestoft to Hungerford at Easter and Christmas to see the outlaws on it 😮😆 So many many memories for me there 😁
I had a 1959 100E Popular which I bought (well, Dad did!) in 1970 for £65. Those vacuum wipers were dreadful - when you needed to see when pulling away, they virtually stopped, and when you lifted the throttle to change gear, they went berserk! This was the most entertaining barn find yet - Murray is a showman!
Jonny. Don't take Off the tappet cover. There is an easier way. Take out the spark plugs. The valves are straight underneath. Shine a torch in whilst you turn the engine over. You can see which valves are opening and closing. any that are staying open tap them gently with a punch to close them. I've owned a Ford pop since 1991. There is not much on mine I haven't had in pieces and rebuilt over the years.
Johnny I love your channel you always find the most interesting car's with the most interesting story's behind them and you really do them justice and create such interesting and informative videos. I just love your enthusiasm and respect for the owners and the car's. Your channel is the benchmark for other car channels to aspire to. Long live the late brake show.
Hi jonny, when I was a kid my dad had an Austin a35 van, he didn't drain the water out of the radiator when a cold night was expected, what he used to do was put a big thick old blanket over the engine and shut the bonnet, he would always tie a yellow rag on the steering wheel to remind him the next morning to remove the blanket before starting it
Fantastic episode, Murray is such a character, I’d love to spend an afternoon just listening to his stories… Local too, it seems you were down the road from me 😂 Need a revisit to see if it runs
Here I was thinking "Those tires are still holding air. That is impressive!!!" ahahahaha well done mate, that is a big step to keeping a car, keep it from sitting and rotting on the ground!
ChatGPT: The Ford Popular Model 103E, which was produced from 1953 to 1959, also had a 1.17 L (1172 cc) inline-four engine with a firing order of 1-3-4-2.
What a lovely man Murray is. Our first car was the same, a black 1953 Ford Pop with red real leather seats. It cost my dad £5 in about 1972! It served us well for a couple of years before we upgraded to a '57 Morris Minor.
Great video again Jonny, what motoring once was ! - my dad and his brother had one of those that they used to race at brands hatch in auto cross races in about 1958, I believe they changed the bigend shells by dropping the sump between heats once !
Love it, I used to go to a pub called the Dutch House on a Tuesday night where fast cars and hot rods of the time used to gather and there was one of these accompanying a Ford Anglia of similar shape. I was just a kid at the time and remember seeing this shape for the first time and wondering how they came up with the later version that I was more familiar with. Murray is clearly the best thing to ever happen to this car with his amazing power of consideration.
Reminds of my first purchase at £15 in 1980, I was just 14 years old for an Austin 1100 that needed a head gasket replacement & I'd saved up my paper round money 😂 i❤️it
This video keeps giving with those lovely Lambretta's awaiting under covers. When I started as a 15year old Sparky I was teamed with an older with this type of majestic "Pop". great classic cars for the 63 's, my own first car in 68 was a Morris Oxford, followed later by a brand new Ford Escort GT.
Another great video, Jonny. Great to see your brother again. What a brilliant character Murray is. I hope he gets it runnning so you can return for a follow up and I'm guessing some more great stories from Murray.
What I love about this series is how warm and honest it is. It is so cleverly done, it genuinely feels like I am just there, enjoying a chat and a cuppa whilst tinkering - the production and editing required to make it feel that way can't be underestimated. Consistently charmed by the situations and the stories - Thank you Jonny.
This is why TH-cam is so much better than TV. No commissioning editor would ever let Johnny produce this amazing content.
TV is lowest common denominator. Not allowed nuance
Fully agree. Regular TV is dead in my view. I never watch it these days.
Agree 👏
I noticed about 20 years ago some American car shows started every return from an ad break with a 5 minute recap of what had happened previously ("Stop wasting time - I'm not a bloody idiot, I saw all this 10 minutes ago!").
Now it's everywhere on everything - or at least what I bother to watch now (which is maybe a couple of hours a week).
This is why we love Jonnys channel
What an utterly wonderful chap Murray seems to be, optimism and passion like that should be celebrated
Thanks Ben, he is a jolly chap. We were talking old diesel trains for half the afternoon!
45 seconds in, and I can already safely say that Murray is a 'character'! 😄
Love him and love the car 🍻
Thought the same , what a lovely man he is
to the pub!
I want to have a beer with Murray. What a genuinely lovely man.
We need more Murrays in the world!
Really enjoyed that one. Murray was great value. Needs a revisit 👍
Totally needs a revisit, as you say!
Possibly your best barn find video yet. Murray is a great raconteur.
@@TheLateBrakeShow You definitely need to go back soon. Or organise taking it to a workshop for the repairs. This guy more than deserves to see his car on the road and drive it ❤️
Can't wait to see the follow up on this one, amazing 👍
If only Ford engines where still so easy to repair/replace.. given the multiple issues we have today.. ( trust me I know what I'm talking about, I'm a focus owner🤣)
I would love to see it up and running 👍👍👍
12:02 I’m calling it, best one yet. What a great raconteur Murray is
What a gem of an episode. Loved Murray and it is clear that you just scratched the surface of his vault of wonderful stories. Those Lambrettas were the icing on a very tasty cake. Hats off Jonny.
Yeah, this video will be a wonderful source of info. for future owners of the car….whenever Murray is finished with it.
I'd like to see Murray and wife go for a quick spin around the block on that Lambretta.
Murray is one of those blokes who you meet in a beer tent and you spend the next few hours roaring with laughter, before crawling away after far too much ale.
The legend that is Murray Brown. I had the pleasure of meeting him when he was chair of the North Yorks Moors Railway, talking trains to a fellow enthusiast (I'm still the chair of the KWVR) . He's so knowledgeable and skilled... those mopeds are simply stunning.
Lovely bloke, well seems that way
NOT mopeds, that term applies to the 50cc pedal assisted bikes of the 50's and 60's
What a great chap Murray is, you can tell he’s been dying to talking about the Pop to someone for years! Would love to see a follow up of him out and about in it.
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Jonny, you spoil us! So many great barn finds lately!
Thank you Kari. We have the final barnfind episode for #BarnFindFebruary #bff going out on Sunday. Glad you've enjoyed this mini series for the shortest month.
@@TheLateBrakeShow The ultimate true BARN Finds would be Porsche & Lambo TRACTORS
We need Murray back again on the Late Lambretta show! Also good to see Jonny's legendary brother. Great episode, thanks.
I worked on one like this in the late 1950's or 1960-1. The inlet valves were know to stick. It took about an hour to get all the inlet and outlet manifolds off. Sometimes we also had to take the head off as the terrible petrol would leave carbon chunks, (not deposits) on the valve seats and they would not close. Another great video Jonny. Oh, and here in Australia we had termites that would attack the car and the interior would fall through into a pile on the ground.
It's non-stop barn finds on this channel right now. Love it!
This is my favourite episode ever, so many personal links to my youth and Murray is such a brilliant man.
He bought this car a couple of months before I was born, my Grandad had the same car (year and colour) and used to bring it out in the summer months every year in the late 70's and early 80's and I loved it, funniest thing of all is my Nana hated the thing.
Thanks to all of you for the memories and laughs.
Did the car stay in the family?
What a lovely man the owner was , how he spoke about his wife showed just how much he loves her . Heartwarming and genuinely touching video .
I think we all just fell in love with Murray.. What a fab Character and great stories. This is another Vid that's right up there Jonny. You have to do a revisit on this one. Would be great to see it cleaned up and ticking over on the drive.. Get back there and get the dizzy out and the jet wash and wax on. Really enjoyed this one.
Flashback moment - maybe. I'm sure Murray is a volunteer with the North York Moors Railway and appeared in one of their videos working on another pride and joy - a Gresley passenger carriage which his group were restoring. I'd love to know whether I'm right. If I am he was as humorous and witty in that clip as he is in this video. His dry and pungent comments about attitudes towards rail enthusiasts as opposed to, say, anglers or especially golfers, have always brought a smile to my face whenever I re-watch the DVD.
He certainly is!
My Dad had a black Ford Popular in the early 1960's. I was put in the back of it as a toddler. I have vivid memories of journeys home in the Ford and the rich smell of it when it was cold and on full choke. There are plenty of photos of me in the Ford Pop!
Eventually my dad traded it in for an Austin A40 bought from 'Kings of Oxford' in Bromborough.
Jonny: "Have you put new tyres on it?"
Murray: "Be careful what you say, I'll get into trouble."
Murray, is instantly likeable and relatable!
at this point I made the sound of a hyena crowing
My grandad had a ford pop!!! I was still a tiny kid at the time but i sure remember him taking us out for a drive on sunday.. the best part of the week for me....
What a lovely Old Boy, also good to see your Brother back on the channel
That pin sticking out by the fan belt below the oil filler is the timing tool. Unscrew it, flip it round and push the long pin end back into its hole, theres a dimple in the cam gear that tells you when it's on tdc.
Also, the wood floor panels were allegedly made from the crates the engines came in.
I've got a genuine in a barn e04a that hasn't seen daylight or run in over 20 years, but dont get your hopes up, I know it needs another engine due to extreme death rattle.....
Murray what a lovely man , would love to see a return for any progress on the popular , and those lambrettas, icing on the cake!
What a lovely old thing. This will be fantastic when it's up and running. Would love something like this tucked away for sunny evening jaunts down to the local pub. Great stuff.
What a treat this is! In 1967 we moved from Leicester to Basingstoke. The family car, soon to be replaced by a new 1.3 cortina was as a black Ford Popular SAY808. It was already venerable by this time and had been driven all over the UK, including many missions across North Wales and all the way to the North of Scotland. Sadly, after arrival in Basingstoke, it never worked again after a failed MOT. We were told that Dad couldn't find Tyres for it and it was left on the drive to steadily rust away. My brother and I used it as a den for years and years. I remember listening to the rain on the roof and hiding from my parents behind the front seats! Sometime in the early 1980's, the Popular was sold to an 'enthusiast' for conversion into a HotRod and never seen again. However, the number plate, SAY808 lived on and was seen on 5 Lada's, 2 Proton's, and at least two Toyotas until about 5 years ago when my father passed away! Thank you for an excellent revival. Please come back and do a part 2!!
These videos bring us to the people of their cars, who have cherished these objects of transportation for decades. Murray is another exponent of a life lived with his passion for motoring, and what a lovely chap he was too.
Fantabulous video again Johnny, and your great approach to bringing these amazing barn finds into our worlds.
That’s what’s so great about this series - irrespective of our fascination with the vehicles, it’s that human story; the history behind the bonds.
Imagine buying new tires for a car you've not driven in 4 decades, this man really loves his car
Brilliant episode.
Murray is a legend.
Happy Birthday Jonny.
I’m in love ❤
This makes my Renault 4TL look modern 😂
Please don’t make us wait too long before you get back to this little cutie! I really want to see her run.
Thanks for such a fun video a lovely time travel for my wife and I. She ; remembering family camping trips in their Pop. Boot crammed full, tent, bedding and stuff on the back seat with just enough room for her to lie on the top of it all, mom and dad in the front smoking, such fun. It was only as an adult she realized that if they had ever hit anything head on in the Pop she would have exited through the front windscreen! For me I was delightfully surprised when the scooters were revealed, I had one of the old 1959 models
with that deadly fixed light, definitely not good for navigating twisty country roads at night. It was a clapped-out old beast, I had to turn the choke back on to pass anybody on a bike. Only had it six months till the back wheel fell off. But we survived to this day :o)
Just when I think you can't out do the last barn find...you bolt it over the park. This was such a great watch. Thank you for this wholesome, amazing content (that isn't just the standard TH-cam "hey guys, just bought another new Lamborghini").
Amazing what it was back then, the necessity for transportation in a war time. Steel was not available as readily so cloth top, wooden floor boards, save where you can. People need to get around but it didn't need an advance motor. 10hp is more than enough to go 25 30 MPH, hell I have a riding lawn mower with 18HP motor that is a century advanced from this thing, but this is where it all came from!! Amazing find, really glad he reached out to you for this video!! Thanks so much!
Barn finds coming in thick n fast of late! Being spoiled indeed! What a chap Murray is, another lovely episode.
I think we are all in agreement that Murray has to have his own channel.Great character.
Jonny . Back in 1970 as a 17 year old, a friend who was a mechanic was asked to take a popular to the scrappers . I was given the task of being the driver and Russell towed with his MGA ! He told me if it drove into the scrappers as a runner he'd get another £5 . So l just put it top and off we went ! It was 6 miles to the scrapman and literally as we got within a few hundred yards the old girl coughed into life ! ......l never got a share of the extra £5 ! Cheers Jonny .
What a brilliant video Jonny. Murray would be a perfect neighbour with his stories!
We are so fortunate to have Jonny and The Late Brake Show available to us all worldwide with TH-cam. Love from Australia.
Ahh, cheers for that. Really kind of you.
Hear hear...from Ballan, Victoria!
This takes me back to my youth , my mum had one in black KPL 937 , must have spent some of my formative years crank starting it! Still remember the smell of old car interior and the three speed box.
A double whammy in a way, I love Murray’s enthusiasm and love for these machines!, Murray’s of the world are lovely to meet, the world is a much better place, I m not into scooters, but those looked fabulous! A great episode!
Please go back Johnny, would love to see this running and driving if possible, I could listen to Murray's stories all day he seems a very nice character.
My favourite barn find so far. Love these old Pops. Simple is always best.
Just what the doctor ordered! A nice new video by my favourite TH-camr.
Thank you Jonny.
Your work (and your team's) is highly appreciated!
Greetings from the Netherlands
Cheers for watching Sebastien!
@@TheLateBrakeShow Noticed you said dynamo and not alternator. ;)
What happened down by the river Murray? 😉😂
Thanks for showing us your car & scooters, really enjoyed it 👍
Cheers Jonny 🍻
When I was a nipper , about 1982, my grandparents had one of these, jet black… remember it was in their garage.
Interestingly, my Grandfather was a stoker or fireman on the great weastern railway and also an enthusiast.
Then funnily enough my uncle still has and rides Lamberettas!!
Funny old world, would love an update to see if that great chap Murray gets it going, would be great to see the smile on his face!
Cheers Johnny.
We need more people in this world like Murray! Such a happy chap.
There's still some old American 50's Pops(complete with the 3-hole Export" Grill....) Still here in people's back Yards and out in the Desert"just parked."
Really good to two young men interested in a 1950s car .and what a lovely old pop it is to . well worth restoring .👍👍👍👍👍
There's a roadworthy 1953 Anglia round here which its owner bought in 1967 for £10 as his first car.
Please do an idol chat episode with this fella! He's great! I bet he has a few outstanding stories we would all enjoy!
Seconded. A great idea!
What a great owner he is. Could listen to him all day
Love Murray, proper character with a good stories 👏
Could have been my Dad he passed on Sutton Bank, he had a weedy Cortina 1300 that loved to overheat !
Jonny! You should do a episode with Murray!! What a guy!! Love him!
Murray needs to be a permanent barn find crew member. What a gent
These barn find episodes are so good, please keep them a regular thing 🙏👌
What a beautiful episode, would be nice to see this have a basic and roadworthy restoration for this lovely chap, this car has lived a life and this chap has many stories to tell with it and I absolutely love the scooters, here's a chap who loves his vehicles and I'm sure he'll have a smile like a Cheshire cat being able to get back behind the wheel of this car, I even think his wife will join him now and like this car, a lovely video
Not sure how I stumbled across this channel, but I dig the content. It's has its own flavor and I love the fact that the timeline has EVERY part of the video separated with its own marker. BRILLIANT!!!
I have a Ford Pop in my barn, was my dad’s retirement project but he never managed to do it so it’s now my challenge to get it done before the grim reaper comes calling. One of many projects. Probably not run for 40+ years and engine doesn’t turn now 😢
I remember my father having his engine on our kitchen table doing repairs over the weekend, yes it was running by Monday morning to go to work
Loved this! I still have fond memories of my dad’s Standard Vanguard, in that 1950s grey that is now so popular! Including helping him crank it into life in freezing conditions when fetching my mum from gran’s - can still see and ‘feel’ the silent snowy street under the old sodium lights as he tried to spin it alive. I used to help him clamp and wire in the parking light - a two colour torpedo shaped one that had by law to be put on the roadside roofline (rain gutter) at night. How things have changed.
I loved that car; he used to sit me on his knee and let me steer it as a 2 year old!
My dad bought one of these in about 1969 from a mate who worked at the gas board. £39.00 he ran it until 1981, when he bought his 2nd car, a 1.1L FORD fiesta 1980.
I drove the pop a couple of times & have been double-de-clutching ever since. !
I love Murray! What a bloke I bet his stories are fascinating! I love these barn finds, keep them coming! Great stuff Jonny!
The Popular was born from the '37 to '38 7W Ten (longer wheelbase as per Prefect with flat rear & spare wheel recessed), which bore the shorter wheelbase Anglia in '39 (still with recessed spare wheel). '39 saw the introduction of the boot hump & then in '53 it became the more basic Popular until it was replaced with the 100e (formerly Anglia) in '59, but unregistered stragglers were finally sold by '62!! Yes Jonny, I am a nerd having had a few sit up & beg Pops & Prefects 🤣🤣 Cheers. Leigh.
Mr Murrey is a legend 😝 your barn finds are my favourite ones by far Jonny . Keep up the great work dude 😎👍
Cars from this era are not usually my bag but I think this barn find is my favourite so far, what a great story what a lovely honest old car and Murray what a wonderful storyteller! to finish off with the lambretta's was magic. Well done Jonny and nice to see your bro back smashing job 👍
Murray is a legend, please consider getting him back on the show for another video! Really enjoyed this episode, in fact I think this is one of my favourite barn finds! Lovely stuff guys
Another great video, Jonny.
Murray seems like a real character. Hopefully he can get it running and you can revisit for another video.
What a great video. Beautiful car. Super owner. There is a reason for the wood floors and the fabric roof. There likely was no press large enough to fabricate the roof and floor plans in single pieces.
6 mins in and I believe, his wife believes it's a 'barn find'. Meanwhile Murray has been throwing the odd 50 quid at this thing every few months.
Hi Jonny - great episode especially as my first car was a 1953 Ford Anglia - basically a deluxe Poplar in that it had chrome headlight bezels, two windscreen wipers and a 12 volt system. My dad and I bought it second hand in 1961 on hire purchase and think it cost £350. Dad couldn't drive and I wasn't old enough to drive it when we bought it but that didn't stop me driving round the lanes!!! I'd learnt to drive on my schoolfriend's farm - they had a little grey Fergie! During the time that we had the Anlglia I, with the help of a friend who was an apprentice mechanic, renewed the big end bearings - they weren't shells and had to be re-metalled. I also had to replace the clutch. Incidently it was the same green colour as Murray's car. Thanks to the three of you for takig me down memory lane.
You have to go back and get that running Jonny, just so we can have more Murray!
Agreed!
.....and take a lid with you, so you can take the Lambretta's for a spin 😀🛵🛵
Murray deserves his own Late Brake spin off, what a legend. Love him ❤️❤️
Yes, with him checking for his wife before telling his stories :)
The Great Murray brown lovely bloke . Worked with him on The Nymr. What he doesn’t know isn’t worth knowing..
True Gentleman so it would be a great feat & a bit of magic & watch his face light up
My mate has an earlier model of this a 1936 Ford 8, BDL800 which is still in use which he found in a field in the 70s and sorted out with parts mainly from the Beaulieu Auto jumbles
Nice find Jonny 👍🏻 Mr Brown is a character too, if a bit henpecked 🤣
As a young man my father's first car was a Ford Pop. He and his mates used to drive from Lowestoft to southern Ireland to go on holiday, fishing. He must have been mental 🤣
Then again when he married my mum his car went and a Lambretta 150 was purchased and they both used to go from Lowestoft to Hungerford at Easter and Christmas to see the outlaws on it 😮😆
So many many memories for me there 😁
I had a 1959 100E Popular which I bought (well, Dad did!) in 1970 for £65. Those vacuum wipers were dreadful - when you needed to see when pulling away, they virtually stopped, and when you lifted the throttle to change gear, they went berserk! This was the most entertaining barn find yet - Murray is a showman!
Murray really reminded me of Cleggy in ‘last of the summer wine’…wonderful!
Best episode yet, what an absolute fabulous character the guy is.
Jonny. Don't take Off the tappet cover. There is an easier way. Take out the spark plugs. The valves are straight underneath. Shine a torch in whilst you turn the engine over. You can see which valves are opening and closing. any that are staying open tap them gently with a punch to close them. I've owned a Ford pop since 1991. There is not much on mine I haven't had in pieces and rebuilt over the years.
I find these so much more interesting over the new car reviews. Good work
Johnny I love your channel you always find the most interesting car's with the most interesting story's behind them and you really do them justice and create such interesting and informative videos.
I just love your enthusiasm and respect for the owners and the car's.
Your channel is the benchmark for other car channels to aspire to.
Long live the late brake show.
I learned to drive and passed my test in a Ford Popular, same colour as this one way back in 1957
He's a proper petrol head "careful what you say you'll get me in trouble" lol
Sounds familiar to many of us PH’s I think 😂
Hi jonny, when I was a kid my dad had an Austin a35 van, he didn't drain the water out of the radiator when a cold night was expected, what he used to do was put a big thick old blanket over the engine and shut the bonnet, he would always tie a yellow rag on the steering wheel to remind him the next morning to remove the blanket before starting it
Another great barn find Jonny is the Ford Popular a great character is Murray loving the Lambretta's 👌👌👌👌
Fantastic episode, Murray is such a character, I’d love to spend an afternoon just listening to his stories…
Local too, it seems you were down the road from me 😂
Need a revisit to see if it runs
Here I was thinking "Those tires are still holding air. That is impressive!!!" ahahahaha well done mate, that is a big step to keeping a car, keep it from sitting and rotting on the ground!
ChatGPT: The Ford Popular Model 103E, which was produced from 1953 to 1959, also had a 1.17 L (1172 cc) inline-four engine with a firing order of 1-3-4-2.
What a great episode. Think you need a part 2 with Murray. Be good to see it running
What a lovely man Murray is. Our first car was the same, a black 1953 Ford Pop with red real leather seats. It cost my dad £5 in about 1972! It served us well for a couple of years before we upgraded to a '57 Morris Minor.
Great video again Jonny, what motoring once was ! - my dad and his brother had one of those that they used to race at brands hatch in auto cross races in about 1958, I believe they changed the bigend shells by dropping the sump between heats once !
The relative value of £350 from 1953 today would be about £10,400! And the £15 from 1975 is worth about £140 today.
Murray is the kind of guy who you could listen to his memoirs all day ! Best episode in a while , great work team late brake show👌🏻
My Dad had two of these when I was a lad,(64 now) he paid £5 for one and £7:10 shillings for the other 😂
Best one yet for me too, nice to see your brother at last. Heard so much about him on Smith n Sniff an all that.
Love it, I used to go to a pub called the Dutch House on a Tuesday night where fast cars and hot rods of the time used to gather and there was one of these accompanying a Ford Anglia of similar shape. I was just a kid at the time and remember seeing this shape for the first time and wondering how they came up with the later version that I was more familiar with. Murray is clearly the best thing to ever happen to this car with his amazing power of consideration.
Reminds of my first purchase at £15 in 1980, I was just 14 years old for an Austin 1100 that needed a head gasket replacement & I'd saved up my paper round money 😂 i❤️it
This video keeps giving with those lovely Lambretta's awaiting under covers.
When I started as a 15year old Sparky I was teamed with an older with this type of majestic "Pop". great classic cars for the 63 's, my own first car in 68 was a Morris Oxford, followed later by a brand new Ford Escort GT.
Another great video, Jonny. Great to see your brother again. What a brilliant character Murray is. I hope he gets it runnning so you can return for a follow up and I'm guessing some more great stories from Murray.
This is the first car that i remember my Dad having way back in the early 60's. What a fantastic memory you gave me!