​Harry Potter Harry & Ron's Flying Car Adventure, with Ford Anglia Car, Harry Potter & Ron Weasley Dolls, Collectible Toy for 6 Year Olds & Up, HHX03

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The new engine, while still antiquated in concept, pumped out an improved 36bhp and propelled the Anglia to 70mph, passing 60mph in 29.4 seconds

Another stunt, as improbable as the other was indiscreet, was seen when 14 hefty lads emerged from the Anglia to demonstrate the generous capacity of its body and boot!”

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Officers said the car could be seen from the road, and believed a Harry Potter fan or classic car enthusiast had moved it with a trailer as the car could not be driven, the BBC reported at the time. In a deleted scene from the film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Ron says that the Forbidden Forest has turned the car wild. He made a similar statement in the book.

Arthur Weasley faced an inquiry at work following this incident. [4] By Christmas, the Daily Prophet reported that he was fined fifty Galleons for bewitching the Muggle car. [5] Rowling provided a deleted draft to the Harry Potter: A History of Magic exhibition for Harry and Ron's original crashing of the Ford Anglia in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. They were originally going to crash into the Great Lake instead of the Whomping Willow and encounter Merpeople for the first time. [12]The light blue car (license number 7990 TD) that appears in the second film was an authentic 1962 Ford Anglia 105E, built in Ford’s factory in the United Kingdom. Special effects supervisor John Richardson took out the engine and gutted the vehicle to make it lighter, and then fitted it onto a rotating crane with a special joint called a gimbal head.

The sprint, if such a term is even appropriate, to 70mph was cut dramatically from 51.5 seconds to 33.4 seconds, with Autocar reporting in December 1962 that “for motorway cruising 75mph is maintained happily with very little engine noise”, returning 28mpg at such speeds, touching 40mpg at slower cruising speeds. With development work on the all-new Ford Escort well under way, the ageing Anglia headed into its twilight years at the height of the Swinging Sixties. Steering is described as light but “rather dead”, with faint understeer until pronounced body roll induces oversteer, while the “soft, comfortable suspension” affords excellent control.

By 1959, when the new, boldly-styled 105E took over, 345,841 had rolled off the production line. Birth of the 105E A spokesperson for the police said: "For those who have not seen the Harry Potter films, this is the car that flies in the movie and is very well known. According to the rumors, the first of the new sets will be a model of the Flying Ford Anglia. The car will probably be similar to the version from the Privet Drive or Whomping Willow set shown in the picture above. While the Mini changed everyone’s perception of what a small car could be, the Triumph Herald and the Anglia revolutionised their respective manufacturers’ public image with hitherto unseen sharp, angular styling. J. K. Rowling said in 1999 that it was supposed to reappear in a future book. It is unknown what became of this. [7]

The Ford Anglia made the Muggle news when, in 2005, the press reported that the car had been stolen from a film studio and found in a ruined castle in Cornwall. In fact, the car reported stolen was just one of many prop cars used in the making of the film. J K Rowling recently revealed that the inspiration for the car, and indeed the character of Ron Weasley, was old school friend Sean Harris, who she describes as “getaway driver and foul-weather friend”. And while Ron’s car didn’t exactly rescue the Anglia from obscurity, it did bring it to a whole new audience.The Harry Potter crew had to use 16 different Ford Anglias for this scene alone. It is reported that 14 of them were destroyed. Inside, leather was an option for the new moulded pvc seats, while carpets replaced moulded rubber, a cigarette lighter, screen washers and twin horns were standard along with an upgraded heater. Still in America, Sports Cars Illustrated magazine lived with an Anglia for a month and found that the new styling “excited admiration everywhere”. Guests were greeted in a “gay lounge of vast dimensions” and lunched “in an even more imposing dining-hall, while outside in the sunshine every conceivable Ford car and commercial vehicle was displayed, including a selection of historic vehicles which have carried the illustrious name of Ford since the era of the model-T”. In addition to the boathouse section itself, which as said can be combined with the other Hogwarts modular sets, some boats are also said to be included.