My ford consul mk2
 

My first car and also the one i took my test in .
my surname was Burchett , bought up by a stepdad so
out of respect changed my surname to his .

Tony
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My Consul was yellow and my girlfriend at the time named it 'Flying custard'.
I converted the vacuum drive windscreen wipers to electric.
In order to do any serious work on the engine one first had to dismantle the heater - That was how they built cars back then, with the heater as an afterthought sat on top of everything else.
I used put in used engine oil because it didn't stay in there long enough to do any damage. But it got me from Totnes to Weymouth and back every weekend for a few months, then the prop shaft fell off....

Dad bought a 1957 MkII Consul, sarum blue with a blue and cream interior with moulded rubber mats. He thought the headlining was brown until we bought some cans of "Groom" foam upholstery cleaner from Halfords. It was quite a reliable runner until the gearbox started to give trouble, so that was swapped for a used unit from a scrapyard and the car traded in part exchange for a 1960 MkII Zephyr in Pompadour Blue. That was a much better car!

A few weeks later Dad passed the car lot where he had traded in the Consul and saw it in the front row, now in a two tone scheme as the dealer had sprayed the roof cream!