Description Two owners from new, the current since 1978; only 22,300 miles; affectionately known as Pop; highly original and absolutely gorgeous The Ford 103E is best known to enthusiasts as the ‘sit up and beg’ Popular.

Launched in 1953 as a budget addition to the Anglia and Prefect range, it hit the market at the perfect time as second-hand cars were virtually unobtainable.

For sale alongside the more modern three-box monocoque Prefect/Anglia it won many friends for its unpretentious basic design which, despite a lack of such luxuries as a heater or passenger windscreen wiper, performed sterling service with considerable charm.

This delightful Pop was bought new in June 1957 by a Gladys Truss of Marlow from Ford dealer Norman Reeves of Slough.

She kept the car until she gave up driving in 1978.

A friend of our vendor then acquired the car with the intention of turning it into a V8 hot-rod.

Fortunately, our vendor managed to wrest the car off him before the butchery commenced! T...