Sold 1985 Ford Granada mk2 estate. Sold and collected.

[Guest Breadvan72]

Pull it all you like! I have ruined my once winsome looks and slender form by wicked living. The heaps are mostly all fucked, but they are in better condition than me.

 

I am approx two miles from junction 6 of the M40.  Bring on the bASe!

[Skizzer]

I had coffee in a special Dolomite mug as well as having a go in the Dolly itself. Both were grand, thank you.

 

Mrs BV is hot, as ever - BorniteIdentity is quite right. Dog BV correctly identified me as a shady character and growled a bit; Mrs BV is much too civilised to growl but may well have felt much the same. I'm very glad she likes the Granada though - clearly a woman of great taste and discernment, at least in some things.

[beko1987]

If I'm back Saturday lunchtime are you at home bv? Would love to see my first ever older granada in the metal. Dad had a d reg one, but that was modern...

[danthecapriman]

The driver's electric window works if you shout at it.  The passenger side one seems to be on strike.  I have not tried the windows in the back.  The windy-up sunroof tilts.  I do not know if it is also supposed to slide.  I don't want to force the handle, and haven't read the handbook yet to find out what the sunroof is supposed to do (apart from leak and rot out, obvs).  

 

The warning lights mounted on the ceiling are in a silly place, as they distract you from the road so that you crash into a ditch when one of the lights comes on (it was the low washer fluid light on this trip, but there are also important ones up there like low oil and low coolant).  The cockpit ergonomics are hilarious - done by a committee, I reckon.  Buttons, switches, dials ad what not have been randomly thrown about the place.  But the car is still uber fabulous in every way.

 

My god! You've dared to open the sunroof!! I didn't ever open it all the time I owned the car, I was too scared it wouldn't close again!

 

The windows are all a bit pants. Drivers one will work albeit slowly. The others can be made to work with a bit of wd40 in the glass seals and a bit of pushing up and down on the glass. I'd not advise trying it on your own though as you might need one person operating the switch and one helping the glass to move. It most likely needs the felt type glass runners changing and the mechanisms cleaning and greasing.

 

The roof mounted warning lights are shit! Sometimes they're ok but other times they'll just do what they want! I've had them all illuminated before randomly while driving but there's nothing wrong, apart from dicky old electrics.

 

It's looking good though BV. Great to see it with your other cars and it's nice to see the cars out being used as it should be too.

[Noel Tidybeard]

do frauds have an button on the sunroof handle that need pushed before open-air may be achieved

 

istr the grilles were ALL chrome with the body colour sprayed on top hence some cars with full chrome nose job

[Guest Breadvan72]

I dunno about sunroof buttons, because Frods are mucho mysterioso to me.  Having vowed on the camels of my forefathers never to have a car with a blue oval badge, it feels strangely liberating to be driving one.  

 

I quite like the idea of a grille with ALL TEH CHROME, but the grille on this one looks fine as it is.

 

I did worry that if I opened the sunroof a whole bunch of dead beetles might fall onto my head, and also that I would never be able to get the thing closed, but neither of these things happened.

 

The indicators do not self cancel, but this is good because it encourages absent-minded giffer driving and pisses off the Audis.

[Guest Breadvan72]

If I'm back Saturday lunchtime are you at home bv? Would love to see my first ever older granada in the metal. Dad had a d reg one, but that was modern...

 

 

Probz, but give me some early warning of shiter inbound, so that I can assure Mrs BV that you are not an advance scout for a horde of nutters about to stampede over the horizon intent on car lickage.  Also, I could pop over your way in the car if you like?

[Bren]

I dunno about sunroof buttns, because Frods are mucho mysterioso to me.  Having vowed on the camels of my forefathers never to have a car with a blue oval badge, it feels strangely liberating to be driving one.  

 

I quite like the idea of a grille with ALL TEH CHROME, but the grille on this one looks fine as it is.

 

I did worry that if I opened the sunroof a whole bunch of dead beetles might fall onto my head, and also that I would never be able to get the thing closed, but neither of these things happened.

 

The indicators do not self cancel, but this is good because it encourages absent-minded giffer driving and pisses off the Audis.

Ringo and Paul are still with us.

[Junkman]

Breadvan72, on 15 Mar 2017 - 7:41 PM, said:

The windy-up sunroof tilts.

 

Are you now completely out of your mind?

 

Don't touch anything that doesn't have to be touched.

 

Interior illumination is usually resurrected by giving the door switches some defibrillatorisation.

Have you checked, whether there is actually a bulb in there? There is also a time delay for it to go off.

 

 

[beko1987]

Probz, but give me some early warning of shiter inbound, so that I can assure Mrs BV that you are not an advance scout for a horde of nutters about to stampede over the horizon intent on car lickage. Also, I could pop over your way in the car if you like?

Ill see how I get on. Have a tip run to do for a complete stranger but can do that Sunday.

 

Ill pap you a pm when I know what's happening if you want

[Junkman]

Do the cigarette lighters work?

Does it have your pic on the sun visor - illuminated?

[Junkman]

Is the wire still attached to the dipstick?

[Guest Breadvan72]

Calm down, Herr StaffelKapitan, I have ceased and desisted from all sunroof related proddage and pokery.

 

I will footle about with interior lights and oil dipsticks and such like later.  It is of course very important that the children's ashtrays are fully functional.

[Captain Furious]

As noted above there is indeed a little switch that needs to be flicked to achieve sunroof sliding action

 

Irrelevant though because as we know, the correct protocol in summer is to drive round with all the windows and sunroof closed so people think you have working air conditioning.

[cort16]

Never open the sunroof on an old car un less you have have a large piss tarp and a clear free week a head available to fix it.

[Guest Breadvan72]

Here is the Skizjunkbread Failprojects LLP business plan for this amazing joint venture:-

 

 

 

[Captain Furious]

Like many other meetings I attend involving flip charts, I have no idea what you're talking about, but it sounds impressive so I am nodding enthusiastically

[Guest Breadvan72]

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[anonymous user]

Worryingly, that flip chart is a reminder of work, I'm glad I have retired. I await the full "death by PowerPoint" version, with added slides

[Captain Furious]

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[NorfolkNWeigh]

[beko1987]

I was in a conference call with a flip chart this very morning! The timing of this thread drift is superb!

 

I said no words, was thinking about car collectioning on Saturday...

[egg]

Sodding bullshit jobs are killing half of us (but do facilitate strategic delivery of chod acquisition)

[danthecapriman]

I'm a blue collar worker myself so haven't a fucking clue what you lot are on about! Flip charts and all that shit...

Last time I attended an (allegedly) important meeting I said absolutely nothing for the whole meeting. When I got back from said meeting my boss had received an email complaint about my total lack of interest and to please not send me ever again!! Suits me.

[Guest Breadvan72]

Almost all meetings are a lot of cobblers, but some people love organising them.

 

Anyway, back in Granada World, nowt happened today, as I was too busy doing actual work (ie no meetings) to do any car bothering. I might do some tomorrow.

[Noel Tidybeard]

Irrelevant though because as we know, the correct protocol in summer is to drive round with all the windows and sunroof closed with a smug look on your face so people think you have working air conditioning.

 

EFA

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

Here is the Skizbreadjunk Failprojects LLP business plan for this amazing joint venture:-

 

Here's another

 

[Spottedlaurel]

Great save, well done to all concerned. The estates do look ‘right’ somehow, and given that it’s basically an early ‘70s design it aged pretty well.

 

I look forward to seeing it at FOTU this year. I hope by that time it will have some of the obligatory chrome wheel arch lips and 7-spoke RS alloys (or something off a Mk3/Scorpio).