The Alpine's behind the Sunbeam-Talbot 90, appropriately. I had one of the Ford Anglias shown in the front row, right of center, in the early 60s. Ford were strange in many ways, hanging on to 3-speed gearboxes, side-valve engines and vacuum wipers for a decade after everyone else had changed. That engine - 1175cc as I recall - had lots of pep for having the "nails' at the side instead of overhead, but unusual big-end bearings for the time.
Another quirk Ford also hung onto was direct-metaled big end bearings (as opposed to shells). When one bearing began the death rattle the dealership couldn't fix it; they were going to send it to a specialist and charge me twice, so I found one myself, a grizzled old Irish guy who'd worked on thousands of such bearings, he told me. For some reason he thought my name was Pete, which he called me ever after. After remetalling, he let me watch him scrape the bearing, check the clearance by feel! scrape a bit more and so on. It ran fine after reassembly.
Anyone who has ever driven a car with the loony vacuum wipers will tell you that they are about the craziest (and most dangerous) systems ever put on a car. Since they depend on manifold vacuum, they run fast when your engine is idling, flap about at a demented speed when you lift your foot and coast, then slow down as you accelerate. So they go fastest when you don't need them and slow down OR STOP when you need them most, such as overtaking a truck on a hill splashing muddy water at you.
