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

[fotorabia]

I am no help so ill just leave this Post It as a form of visual relief..

 

[danthecapriman]

Interesting reading Junkman. 14 mk2's! I'm glad I'm not the only one who rates these things so highly. I've liked them as long as I can remember tbh, right back to when I was a little kid I liked the look of them. They were newish cars back then of course.

I've only had one Granada, the mk2 Ghia X estate I've got now, bought in 2008 from a banger racer! Since I did a load of welding to bring it back from the dead it's been a fantastic car, and I love driving it.

It's a real shame numbers of these have been decimated over the last 30 odd years by the banger boys, and yet they still seem to keep finding them too.

 

You ever had a 2 door Granada JM? We never had them in this country but Europe did.

[Magnificent Rustbucket]

The MK2 Granada Ghia are beautiful cars - so much so they can be forgiven for not running since they make an attractive static addition to any street scene.

 

My dad had one in the early 1980s - a crystal green 2.8 Ghia with brown velour. It was an early car with the original and higher Ghia spec level they sold before the Ghia X was introduced. He loved it. He replaced it with a 5 Series, which though considerably faster, was inferior to the Ford in most other ways - certainly in comfort and build quality, both of which were considerably better than the BMW.

 

I have fond memories of it. He bought it in Germany and imported it to the UK on 'Z' plates. We had a lovely little holiday when we picked it up.

[Junkman]

I've only had one Granada, the mk2 Ghia X estate I've got now, bought in 2008 from a banger racer!

Several of the ones I had were bought from banger racers, because they considered them way too good to be raced.

However, I take great pride in not having sold a single one to a banger racer.

 

You ever had a 2 door Granada JM? We never had them in this country but Europe did.

No, the only ones I ever had were facelifts, and the 2-door died already before that. Also, I have never seen a 2-door with a 2.8, let alone 'i', or Ghia. Those 2-doors always were rare, even among the giffer bunch, to an extent, that I often wonder, why Ford bothered. Apparently it was a pretty half arsed affair anyway, otherwise it would have been available with the entire range of engines and trim packages, and properly marketed as well. I mean, a 2-door 2.8i Ghia sounds strangely appealing, doesn't it? It would have been a stunning car, in the league of a Fiat 130 Coupe.

 

A few specialist companies did kit out 2-doors, some even were made into convertibles. At least one of them was massaged by May (that's a company that turboed Cologne V6es). I know so, because it was featured in a German car magazine at the time. Also at least one of them was converted by a company in Friedrichshafen, which's name I forgot, that fitted Granadas with the Mustang 302 V8 EFI. The Small Block Ford is actually such an easy drop-in, that we often wondered, whether the Granada wasn't actually designed for it from the onset.

[Junkman]

It's a rubbish zoomed in photo, but that C pillar light looks familiar...

 

reading light.jpg

 

More Ford parts bin raiding by Hyundai?

 

It doesn't surprise me a bit.

After Hyundai already had managed the marketing and sales of the Taunus P7 in Asia, they started to assemble MKII Granadas from CKD kits commencing 1977. With only a few weeks delay, even the upgrades and eventually the facelift were implemented. Until December 1985 almost 5,000 had been built. But instead of continuing the scheme with the Scorpio (Granada MKIII in the UK), Hyundai started to produce the Grandeur and sure enough used up some of the bits left over from the Granada production throughout their own car range.

[Junkman]

The fucking fuck is a fucking one.

Just in case anyone wondered.

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

COUNTDOWN TO TOMORROW'S

EXCITING UPDATE

 

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

Okay, there's no update. The car's not working and we don't know why. 

 

The car might be driving us up the wall at the moment, but here - look at the sills. How is this even possible? How can a car look like that on the top, but like this underneath?

 

 

[danthecapriman]

That's clean! And a car well worth persevering with too in that condition.

Mine was horrendous underneath if it makes you feel better.

[Junkman]

I admit that I admitted defeat and sold the Beast.

I couldn't get it running and had extreme difficulties obtaining any spares.

 

It now lives with a gent in Salisbury, who will give it the love it deserves.

Down there, they are in the lucky position to be in Banger racing's heartland and thus have an unlimited parts supply.

In a few weeks, 160 Granadas will be raced in Ringwood, hence everything this car needs is available in abundance there.

 

It's not often, that I throw in the towel, but there was little else I could do and I also was in zugzwang to move on financially.

I hope you will understand that this was not an easy decision and

 

I CAN HAZ DEPRESSURISATION

[cort16]

I've given up on sandwiches I've was eating for less reasons. Sometimes you just need to get rid.

[dollywobbler]

I can haz sad. Wouldn't mind being in touch with the new owner if possible. I'm quite interested in the fate of the 'fleet of the field of dreams.'

[chaseracer]

Hopefully NOT the next Unlimiteds meeting at Arlington!

[Junkman]

Certainly not. The current owner has no connection to banger racing apart from using their parts network.

[dollywobbler]

Contact with new owner established. Excellent.

[chaseracer]

Yep - seems like a top bloke.

[danthecapriman]

Sad to hear you sold this!

Still, you saved it from either rotting in a field or being raced/scrapped which is good enough.

If it's now in Salisbury I'll keep an eye out for it as that's not a million miles away from me.

 

So, is this likely Junkmans last Granada? Or will there be another?

[Junkman]

This might have been it, but one should never say never.

Good ones became too expensive for me. And at least here up North, the spares situation is hopeless.

 

Piece of advice here - don't buy an injection that isn't running.

[Junkman]

Contact with new owner established. Excellent.

 

 

Yep - seems like a top bloke.

 

 

How come you guys know him?

[chaseracer]

How come you guys know him?

 

Made a deduction on Farcebook.

 

[Junkman]

Oh. I'm not subscribed to such newfangled shenanigans.

 

What's he sayin'?

[chaseracer]

He thinks you're German and that you're crazy.  I may* have suggested the latter point 

[Junkman]

Could be worse...

[Skizzer]

Could be worse...

 

Yes - he could think you're Austrian.

 

[chaseracer]

Yes - he could think you're Austrian.

 

 

I warned him not to mention the Sud-Tirol.

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

The new Skizzer/Breadvan/Junkman acquisition/future custody battle got me wondering "whatever became of the Field of Dreams Granada?". I stuck the reg in the vehicle enquiry website, which said it had been successfully MOT'd only three months after Junkman sold it, so I contacted the buyer. He gamely tolerated the (at least) second person from this message board pestering him about his car and told me it needed nothing more than a new fuel tank, rebuilt metering unit, accumulator, pump, filter and injectors. So we were close, just... far. 

 

Good to have closure. 

 

 

[Junkman]

Would that be all, sir?