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[eddyramrod]

There's this Polish ambulance driver, loves old cars, hangs around Andreas's garage, y'see. I heard a whisper he'd bought something a bit special, in need of some work. When I saw him at the post office I made sure we swopped phone numbers so we could arrange a meet. Well today that meet took place.

1972 GXL, Essex V6, meets 1976 GL, 2.0 Pinto. Total Granada population in Paphos is now 3, including the red Mk2 you've already seen. The Pinto car came from UK at about 7 years old, pulling a caravan and tailed by an Escort. The paint on it is bloody awful, Damian and his buddy have a lot of work to do. Still, if they can be inspired by mine at all...

Damian was very busy with his SLR, snapping every pic he could of my car, and of the pair. I've already told them the grille badge is in the wrong place. [/anorak, but this is what they need]

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

First thing I did was check to see if the other one had those vents round the rear window. Probably better if it doesn't - after befriending the guy, you'd be racked with guilt prying trim off his car in the dead of night.

[eddyramrod]

It has had a new vinyl roof at some point... and they've run it straight over the vents! You can still feel where the grilles should be though. There just isn't any break in the vinyl...

[lovejoy]

Kalispera Eddy, just spotted your Grenades thread....poli kala should't you be meeting up together in that city in Southern Spain instead?

 

question - do your licence plates there conform with uk plates?? they look the same in the pics, how much to get one made ?

(I know they're supposedto say "conforms to BS AU 145" and other such bulldust, but who's czeching ???)

 

Unfortunately, no sign of Grenadiers on this island, otherwise I would also be prising off plastic vents for you; but I did come across

2 mangled G100 Charades in a thornbush yesterday, which cheered me up no end, when I took the morning out to get a key cut from a new blank (don't ask...)

3 key blanks / 3 hrs later - I came back without one that works - grrrr. welcome to paradise

[eddyramrod]

Aloha Lovejoy!

 

Number plates here do indeed resemble UK plates, the size, colouring and typeface being more or less identical. We don't have the BS mark though. If I do ship a car back, which remains a possibility, it will be interesting driving it around UK on Cyprus plates, as there's no real difference. GF 8, which is on my Granada, would look like a very expensive private plate! Although I suppose sooner or later I'd have to get a proper UK mark from DVLA.

[lovejoy]

Not necessarily so Eddy, I knew a girl (when I woz yung) from Uk who worked in the same casino here as me, had a 323 coupe with (at the time) a local Antigua silver on black plate P 3729, again, same letter format & size as UK, she shipped it back to London and drove it for 18 months there, parked on the street every day, never got pulled ! (well, not by the law, anyway.)

She shipped it back here again chock full of clothes and other paraphenalia to get around the luggage allowance on her flight !

 

Rumour has it that it used to belong to Tarzan, as de locals call dem " tree to tree" .....

 

Oh, and I am nowhere near Hawaii, mon. local dialect would be " wazza vibes", or wassappenin (educated bunch here )