1949 Anglia Pro-Street Street-Rod
- - POSSIBLY THE-BEST STREET ANGLIA IN EXISTANCE! - FULL DUAL-TUBE PRO-CHASSIS - Compared to other Anglia’s on the Market – Professionally built – ONE-of-a-KIND !
- This car is Very Drivable, drives wonderfully, straight, and right, does not wander, hunt, or follow the curvature of the road. Builder specializes in tube-chassis pro-touring cars, known for making their cars drive very well at speed and handle great on the track.
Overview
- Pro built tube chassis Street Rod with 350 miles since being finished over a decade ago, artfully built with the best-of-the-best parts and craftsmanship.
- Street Rod Nationals “Best-of-Show” and Best-in-Class” winner in 2013.
- Sheet-metal and tube chassis by Professional chassis and car builder, Springfield Motorsports in Canada. Grand National Roadster Show winning builder known for making their cars drive well at speed and handling well on the track. This car drives straight and right, does not wonder, hunt, or follow the curvature of the road.
Engine
- Blown, Fuel Injected, Intercooled 350ci ZZ4 crate-engine with aluminum heads and headwork, nice value-train components, and lopey cam, making approx. 500+ hp at the crank, is topped with a mirror-finish polished set of original mid-1960’s finned aluminum Corvette valve-covers with Offenhauser breathers for a vintage fueler look. Magnacharger supercharger with Edelbrock Fuel Injection. This motor always impresses.
- Custom 1.5” Stahl headers by Springfield Motorsports, Stahl exhaust-port adapters, enable larger exhaust port work and easy access to header bolts.
- Headers and entire 3” exhaust with FlowMaster Mufflers are flanged in multiple places and Jet-Hot ceramic coated.
- Runs cool and *doesn’t* overheat due to big aluminum radiator, electric fans, and Intercooled Supercharger intake manifold circulating cool water through the top of the engine, Magnacharger boost bypass valve recirculates boost, unless under acceleration (only making boost, and heat, when needed). Separate intercooler and transmission fan-feed coolers under car.
Transmission
- 700R Transmission - 80 MPH at 2,000 RPM.
- Hurst Gated Shifter, with Reverse lockout. Simple and safe driving.
Chassis & Suspension
- Full dual-tube Chromoly chassis and cage by Springfield Motorsports is a work-of-art.
- Ride-Tech Air-bagged suspension rides and drives amazingly well – New RideTech 3 setting controller recently installed by Pinkee’s Rod Shop.
- Custom Mustang-II tubular A-Arms front suspension by Springfield Motorsports, with McPherson “Center Steer” steering box.
- Custom polished stainless-steel adjustable four link rear suspension by Springfield Motorsports, with wishbone is key to how straight this car drives.
- NOS Bottle mounted to roll-cage (“non-functioning as NOS”) is air-tank for air-ride.
- Strange Engineering sheetmetal 9” rear-end with aluminum nodular 9” carrier, 4.10 gear, posi-track, and 3 ½” Aluminum driveshaft.
Wheels & Tires
- Mickey Thompson 31x18.5x15’s mounted on polished 15x12 ET-Wheels “Fueler” wheels with Blank-Off center plates.
- ET-Wheels 15x5 “Gasser” wheels, 155Rx15’s for late 60’s Fueler, Gasser, Funny-Car theme.
Body
- All-Steel, never rusted, ex-Gasser body. Sheet-metal work, shaved door hinges, door handles, and drip rails, trunk hinges, roof expertly filler by Springfield Motorsports. Heavy-duty door-hinge kit makes doors work perfectly. Steel rear fenders welded to body look great.
- Channeled 6” over the tube-chassis, nothing hangs below the body or chassis. The only low car I’ve driven where nothing drags.
- Original all-steel 7-piece nose welded together, grill stretched and leaned back, grill openings reworked, steel cowl-style hood-bump to clear the supercharger.
- Aftermarket headlights with integrated turn-signals perfectly positioned.
- 1937 Ford taillights LED lights and flush-mounted LED third brake-light below rear window.
Interior
- Racy, simple, well thought-out, and well executed interior, completes late 60’s Fueler, Gasser, Funny-Car influenced Pro-Street theme, always impresses.
- Easy in & out, beautiful chromoly roll-cage, provides great structural rigidity, is attractive and eye-catching, welded to chassis and painted to match tube-chassis.
- Leather upholstered aluminum aircraft style seats are very comfortable.
- Beautiful dash (not common in Anglia’s) is racy and street-roddy, filled with beautiful matched set of 5” high-end domes glass lensed gauges by “Specialty Instruments”, with a matching Tach on steering column. Steering wheel compliments theme. Push-button start-button, turn-signal and high-beam indicators tastefully placed in the dash. Original burgundy red Anglia hood ornament frenched into right-side of dash. Switches hidden under-dash.
- Aluminum Offenhauser Gas Pedal reworked by Pinkee’s Rod Shop, with a matching aluminum Brake Pedal.
- Heat-barrier lined. Leather seats, door panels and leather headliner. Custom fabricated console.
- Wheel-tubs and tinwork perfectly executed, covered in black leather and carpet.
- Bigger and more comfortable interior than you expect, with plenty of driving room, well placed pedals, lots of passenger room.
- RideTech Controller with long cable, chrome park brake handle tucked under driver’s seat. Fuse panel with Anti-Theft ignition-kill easily accessible under passenger seat.
- Painted chromoly cage extends to gorgeous trunk, with polished stainless-steel fuel cell, high-volume fuel-pump and filter, leather covered and carpeted interior panels.
Paint
- Deep, glassy jet-black paint gets the most attention. People comment on how nice it is, how wet it looks, and how it’s the blackest black they’ve seen.
- Even though it only has 350 miles since finished, the paint is over a dozen years old and is not absolutely perfect, as no paint-job is absolutely perfect. But it is still gorgeous. Since the car presents very well, no one notices the few flaws I see.
Windows
- Lightly smoked glass (not film) is not noticeable when driving, but tinted enough to keep the heat down. Original hand-crank 1949 Ford window mechanisms are as good as you’ll find for 70+ years old.
Theme
- Late 60’s Fueler, Gasser, Funny-Car influenced Pro-Street theme is impressive and gets tons of attention.
Ownership Experience Highlights
- Owning, showing, and driving this car has been a great experience. It goes down the road like a dream at 80 MPH with two fingers on the wheel. It does not act at all like your average Pro-Street car. It turns so well you’d think it’s got 245’s up front. Best driving car I’ve had. Only exceeded by my 2018 Porsche 911 Carrera GTS.
- Motor never gets hot or overheats, on the hottest days, never exceeding 195 degrees, even on 100+ degree days.
- I’ve never been hot or sweat in this car, even on 100+ degree days. Unlike every other Black cars, this car never seems to get hot inside, even after sitting in the hot sun all day. The key is the heat-barrier lining, combined with the airflow over the front fenders and long windows that provide great airflow into the car.
- A crowd favorite. Expect lots of conversations at shows, as it constantly draws crowds. People say they saw it from across the fairgrounds or going down the highway and had to come see it. Expect to get asked a lot if it is “For Sale”.
Weight & Performance
- Drag Calculator estimates 10 second quarter mile times at 2,350 – 2,400 lbs.
Credits
- Builders Gerry Demski at Springfield Motorsports in British Columbia and original owner / co-builder, Harry Prokop designing and executing one the best and most beautiful Anglia’s ever built.
- Eric Peratt at world-famous Pinkee’s Rod Shop in Windsor, Colorado for working out the final bugs and making this car drive as well as it does.
Artwork
Beautiful watercolor artwork of this car available at www.logers-auto-art.ca
