There is no Granada in Granadaland! Caution: Contains Granada Beast!

[Magnificent Rustbucket]

Fantastic cars these. My dad had a crystal green 2.8 Ghia  with brown velour for 3 years from '81. I have a photo of it somewhere, I may have a look for it.

 

He was a bit unlucky in that he bought it some months before the Ghia X came out. His version was like the Ghia X, but lacked the air conditioning - so it had more kit than the 'new' post Ghia X Ghia, which was downgraded. Not sure why I bothered to say that!

 

Anyway, I have long thought the Mk2 Granada Ghia to be a superb car - the consummate all-rounder with superb levels of comfort, ride, handling and build quality. My father replaced the Granada with an E28 BMW 5 series. The BMW was far more powerful, but a lesser car in most other ways.

 

Together with the 604 V6 TI, the Granada Ghia/Ghia X are cars I would genuinely like to own. Along with old Jags, they're as good as it gets!

[HMC]

I seem to remember this was in a stash with vulgs renault and various other jalopies, and that that seemed ages ago. love the colour and spec on this, the opposite end of the spectrum from my 'L' mk2 estate.

[Clanger]

There just aren't enough superlatives... we should close the forum and the internet now, as no one will ever top TEH Junkman.

 

Chapeau!

[danthecapriman]

I seem to remember this was in a stash with vulgs renault and various other jalopies, and that that seemed ages ago. love the colour and spec on this, the opposite end of the spectrum from my 'L' mk2 estate.

I wonder what the rarest spec mk2 is now? The L seems almost extinct now, and so are the S and iS models. There's a guy near me that has a 2.3S saloon in black, but most survivors seem to be Ghia and Ghia X models, yet they were expensive when new!

[Shep Shepherd]

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I imagine that the special editions (Chasseur, Consort, Sapphire, Talisman, Topaz, plus others) are more or less extinct nowadays. The Chasseur and Sapphire were particularly nice cars.

[cort1977]

Love that Junkman.

 

I can confirm that these were still seen as a smart motor in early 90's Essex when I was growing up.   And still are in the saner corners of the internet...

[Junkman]

Yes, I have owned the car for a while and yes, it comes from the Welsh farm we raided. But until now, the car was in storage and I had basically no access to it.

Since it is now on the estate, I can seriously commence working on it.

The car is rock solid with not a single rot hole. The underside is museum condition. It had been tucked away since 1998 and I bet it was totally mint when it arrived

where I got it from. However, those people chose to store a bunch of old tractors in various newly built sheds and all the cars they had in a big mud bog.

It must have suffered severely in the relatively short time it spent there.

 

The main problem is that it won't start from cold. We got it running once, and it ran fine when warm, but later it hasn't been possible to start it at all.

Apparently it fails to build up any vacuum.This happened to me once before (this is my 15th MKII Granada!) and I think it is the same problem all over again,

i.e. a combination of a dissolved inlet manifold gasket and the valve clearance being too tight.

There are two more fuel distributors and a complete intake gallery in the boot.

So hopefully I'll have this running next weekend. Once running, it's actually ready for an MoT, believe it, or not.

[Steviemillar]

A possible cause of your non starting problem could be that the fuel return pipe into the tank is blocked/gummed up. I had a Capri 2.8 that wouldn't start after a longish layup and the return was blocked solid. We ran the return from the metering unit into an empty petrol can to prove it and away she went.

Worth a try

[Junkman]

That's a superb idea, thank you so much!

[sheffcortinacentre]

leather was only std in the saloon GHIA X Executive.

[trigger]

Predictably I love it! Does it need much work?

[Noel Tidybeard]

needs a new rear number plate the 2 & the 8 are too close together

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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[Junkman]

Also, someone seems to have sliced up a W108 on the corner of your house.

 

[anorak mode] It was a W109 [/anorak mode]

[Junkman]

Are there actually any K-Jetronic expert shiters in the vicinity?

[Tamworthbay]

Why do some people have such great farms near to them? All my local farmers seem to have is old threshing machines and dead greyhounds.

 

Awesome find, will be interesting to see how it gets on at the mot

[Junkman]

That farm was an entire country away from me.

My immediate surroundings are thankfully void of any rural activities.

[danthecapriman]

Are there actually any K-Jetronic expert shiters in the vicinity?

Fuel injection is modern voodoo! Rip it all out and bung a carb on it and it'll be totally reliable, I've got a spare Pierburg carb for one of these in my stash.

This is most probably total bollocks of course but mine works fine!

 

Can you still even get parts for K-jet?

[Bren]

Real granadas (consuls) have ford V4 powah.

[dollywobbler]

As found almost two years ago. Glad to see it's ready for the next stage of resurrection!

[Junkman]

Please note that this is not the exact location where the cars were when we went there to collect the Beast. They were dumped into a bog hole.

Further up, where you see the excavator, there is ample level and dry ground and there are several new sheds on the premises, neither of which filled anywhere near its capacity.

[Felly Magic]

Good luck getting this barge running again mate, do love these old Granadas, fond memories of a metallic green Ghia X, lovely comfy old barges

[dugong]

Junkman doesn't do the countryside, but Bosch Mobile Tradition still stock K-Jet bits; it had a massive stand at Retro Classics.

[Junkman]

The problem with Bosch Mobile Tradition is that even the combined proceeds of selling your inner organs would be sufficient to only partially fund an O-ring from them.

[Junkman]

Can you still even get parts for K-jet?

Nope.

[dugong]

The problem with Bosch Mobile Tradition is that even the combined proceeds of selling your inner organs would be sufficient to only partially fund an O-ring from them.

And it would be knocked out in the cheapest manner possible from an outsourced factory. I don't blame the staff; they're just horribly exploited to the same extent that Bosch decided to besmirch its heritage.

 

Top tip: I went to a fuel-injection conference in Stuttgart. It was in German. I was also fairly drunk.

[Junkman]

Junkman doesn't do the countryside...

 

I was armed with a wheel brace at all times and didn't go there alone, so it was okayish.

Still fully Twilight Zone, mind, so the creepyness was an overwhelming one.

[chaseracer]

As found almost two years ago. Glad to see it's ready for the next stage of resurrection!

 

Even more importantly, what happened to the Dyane, the Panhard and that 80%-of-a-Renault-Rodeo?

[dugong]

I was armed with a wheel brace at all times and didn't go there alone, so it was okayish.

Still fully Twilight Zone, mind, so the creepyness was an overwhelming one.

It wasn't Lincolnshire, so your coping strategies were more than adequate.

 

Pity. Cadwell Park's in Lincolnshire. And Ratdat.

[HMC]

It was quite a find that granny, everything about that picture above hints to there being little floor or sill structure intact.

[dollywobbler]

Even more importantly, what happened to the Dyane, the Panhard and that 80%-of-a-Renault-Rodeo?

 

Dyane was binned, though Calvin B managed to strip it of anything useful. Which in a way is a shame, as it wasn't too rotten and might have made a good project. However, it has certainly kept others going.

 

Panhard was also saved by a Panhard fan, though possibly just for parts. It was right royally f*cked. Rodeo was a wreck and I assume that got binned too.