F-word wonderful waftbarge lives!

[Split_Pin]

Another excellent result. It looks pretty spruce. It would be ace if it just started in the button.

[cort16]

wowsers is estate a sport? You do however lose 2 points for fitting chrome wheel arches.

[eddyramrod]

Fortunately it has a proper gearbox, I would be extremely disappointed if it had three pedals.

Technology-wise, this was the zenith in automotive history. It all went downhill from there and literally became pear-shaped.

 

I can't think of any post you've made with which I agree more!  And you've said a lot I agreed with...

[Junkman]

wowsers is estate a sport? You do however lose 2 points for fitting chrome wheel arches.

 

Yes, it is an 'Injection' estate, i.e. 2.8 Injection Turnier, in German Ford lingo. I don't think they come any rarer, apart from the Aston Martin built ones.

[Junkman]

You do however lose 2 points for fitting chrome wheel arches.

 

I was young and stupid. Now I'm no longer young.

But I always coated the wheelarches with hard wax before the chrome went on.

[cort16]

I've put a note of interest against this as it's just up the road. I've already has a 2.3 autov6 one of these and it was bloody hopeless. I still want it.

 

http://retrorides.proboards.com/thread/161360/1982-ford-granada-paisley-glasgow

[wackywacerwill]

Good save, well done.

I do miss my old mk2 granny 

[costadelglosta]

Junkman

 

I saw what I take to be your brown Rover P6 parked up there the other day and took a very nice pic of it which got a few likes on my Facebook page. I did speak to the guys in the shed some time back about respraying a few range rover panels for me. Was going to ask them what was the score with the Masers the other week but they always look busy.

 

Cheers Ed

[Junkman]

Busy? They usually look confused when I am there...

If you like I can arrange for your RR bits being resprayed.

Would like to see the pic, though.

[costadelglosta]

Junkman

 

Here is the picture I took of your Rover the other day;

 

 

[Junkman]

Yep, my wreck in Dystopia. Bloody ace!

[HMC]

15 Granada Mk2s thats quite some record! How does the latest compare condition wise with some of your earlier ones?

 

Theyre handsome brutes, the mkIIs. Strange to think that just a decade on from the last of the mk2s, ford were turning out the frog-like Scorpio

[Junkman]

15 Granada Mk2s thats quite some record! How does the latest compare condition wise with some of your earlier ones?

 

Only ten short years ago, I wouldn't have bought such a bad one. Now they are so rare that you don't really have a choice.

[mercrocker]

Big thumbs up from me....I couldn't boast 15 but did have 2.3LX and 2.8 Ghia carb versions and miss them dearly.   In fact, I miss all the Mk2 Grannies you no longer see or hear, so good save Junkman

[NorfolkNWeigh]

Here's my mk2 story. In 1982 I was 18 and working as a motorcycle messenger in a West End advertising agency. The MD put his Stag on its roof on the M4 whilst as pissed as a fart- 2 year ban handed down by the beak. The company purchased a 2.8 carb Ghia X in silver ,UPD 26X I was given £100 to buy a suit and became a chauffeur- result ! I loved that Granny and in a year I took it from 30 miles to 42,000 and no one else ever drove it. As an annoying 18 year old my favorite thing was was to put the fog lights on with the sidelights ,then flash the main beam which switched fogs off and the spotlights on- this was guaranteed to clear the fast lane! Of course in 1982 no one had aircon so that was a major showing off feature too.

After a year the company was taken over and we got a BMW 735 then a Silver Spirit, my boss never drove again and I went on to work as a chauffeur for 20 years driving all sorts of supposedly better cars,but I don't think any beat that Granny. I always had company cars so my wife's wheels never needed to be economical hatches and she's had amongst other barges 8 mk2 Granada's including Ghia X 's and a Chausseur. But I've never had The Holy Grail a 2.8i Ghia X Executive with leather so this year it's definitely one of those or a 3.0 S mk 1 in Signal Orange

 

 

[r.welfare]

Friend of my dad had a Ghia X Exec, back in the mid 80s. Me and his son flattened the battery playing with all the electrical gizmos in it. My uncle had a 2.3 LX around the same time, the most memorable thing I remember is the map reading spotlights in the rear pillars.

 

I wonder what a facelift is like; I didn't really gel with my 1980 2.3L but then I hardly drove it in the six months I owned it. That needed a new spare wheel well, reproduction repair panels were fairly easy to source in 2007. It also had holes in the rear deck panel between the back window and boot lid, is yours sound there?

[Junkman]

The spare wheel well is rotten on mine, what else is new?

The corners below the rear screen are remarkably sound, despite it having a sunroof.

[fordperv]

Father fordperv had an ex police 2.8I that thing was great sounded lovely and flew

[dieselnutjob]

My best mate and me used to lust after the Ghia X in about 83 or 84 was it?  I would have been 13 or 14.  In fact we were more interested in the Ghia X than any supercar so I must have been a shiteist even back then.

[CortinaDave]

Banger racers hoover these up so aggressively that they've been almost totally wiped off UK roads... i cant remember the last time I saw one.

 

Such a shame, I've always fancied one.

 

i sometimes wish Ford had made Cortinas and Granadas in such a way that they made absolutely shit stock cars...

[Bucketeer]

I hope you've since straightened the wonky badge on the front of the Rover of Lust.

 

<insert winking emoticon here>

[dollywobbler]

Banger racers hoover these up so aggressively that they've been almost totally wiped off UK roads... i cant remember the last time I saw one.

 

Such a shame, I've always fancied one.

 

i sometimes wish Ford had made Cortinas and Granadas in such a way that they made absolutely shit stock cars...

 

That's why I was especially keen to find this one a good home. 

[Bren]

That's why I was especially keen to find this one a good home. 

A good home - one with a stoplock and a doberman I hope. Not all banger racers are theiving bastards, just quite a few of them.

[Junkman]

I hope you've since straightened the wonky badge on the front of the Rover of Lust.

 

<insert winking emoticon here>

 

Can't be arsed.

[Junkman]

Gennamuns,

 

I herewith pronounce the F-word wonderful waftbarge alive!

After some tinkerage and fillage with pezz, a defibrillator was connected, and after the first try, the infirm started to cough, shake, spit leaves, spider webs, dead mice, etc, and then settled into what could be called a tick over, albeit an erratic one.

The apparent reason for the patient being relegated to a long coma has revealed itself - a leaking fuel pipe. It will thus require further surgery, but recovery is imminent.

 

Yours truly

 

Dr Junkenstein M.S.*

 

 

*Mad Scientist

[eddyramrod]

Monster Mash!

[Junkman]

I also managed to obtain a set of 14" alloys to replace the metric shit that the barge came with - courtesy of none other than Anthill Mob #266 Jamie Marsh.

 

For once my thanks go out to the banger boyz.

[Angrydicky]

There's a properly rough one of these that's always trundling around Shoeburyness in Essex, the bloke's had it for years. Gold but it's so dirty it doesn't look like it's ever been washed, lots of rough welding on the sills etc. A536 JEH I think it is. I bet he's had a few offers from banger racers over the years but clearly loves the car to have kept it so long so I think it's safe for now. There's also a 2.0L on a V plate in Rochford that I really like the look of, I love the pre facelift front.

[Bucketeer]

[rml2345]

Excellent! It's great to see one of these saved and cherished as I mind seeing loads when I was wee.

Top work Junkman.