Genuine Granada Greenhouse Gassing Granadaland - The Beast Estate leaves the GGG - Caution: No P6 Content!

[Junkman]

I agree jm, a nice deep blue with oodles of lacquer!

 

Yeah, so it can peel a lot.

 

Repainting this car and then adding coach stripes would be like running ½ mile of a marathon and then stopping to drink a nice stiff Martini.

EFA

[danthecapriman]

Mustard mit, I like the coach line stripes. These were added at some point by a previous owner when the car had a lower half respray. The coach lines hide the joint between new and old paint. Sadly whoever did it didn't bother doing it properly and masked (poorly) around the plastic side trims so these all have paint around them too. They also used masking tape to cover two rust holes in the front panel behind the bumper then just sprayed over this too! I welded these bits up when I had the car.

 

Junkmans right. These cars are superb and don't need 'upgrading', Ford did a good job with these Granny's, they're easily a cut above the usual stuff Ford were churning out alongside these.

The colour on this one is lovely. I seem to remember Mineral Blue wasn't available for long though, I think it was 85 - 87 model years only, so not many mk2 Granny's would have had it.

[Junkman]

A Ghia without coach stripes is incomplete and looks like a bloody L.

[danthecapriman]

A Ghia without coach stripes is incomplete and looks like a bloody L.

Indeed. One must show everyone else that one has a Ghia. Not just a Ghia in fact but a Ghia X!

[Junkman]

I like how one shows off that one has a Ghia X with a big fat chrome plated 'X' tacked to the tailgate.
Granadas sure score high in the most half arsed badging contest, which is of course won by the P6 V8 with not a narrow margin.
 
On a different note, here are some photos of my more recent Granada killing spree.
 
2.8i Ghia, Mineral Blue in colour

 
2.8i Injection Turnier pulling 2.8i Ghia Turnier resto

2.8i Ghia Turnier resto finished

 
 
Pre collection thread invention collection:
 
I had a Nimbus Grey 2.8i Ghia X saloon

 

So I bought another Nimbus Grey 2.8i Ghia X saloon just because it was a Nimbus Grey 2.8i Ghia X saloon

for sale within 5 miles of Ringwood.

 

 

 
 

[Junkman]

After I washed it, there was a substantial amount of water in the driver's footwell, so we have to figure out how that's getting in.

By washing it.

[Magnificent Rustbucket]

Self fixing electrics and wet footwells - this thing is just like a Jag. No wonder I like it!

[Junkman]

If I include The Beast

 

 

you have now seen seven of the 16 MKII Granadas I owned hitherto.

[Junkman]

Entirely btw, The Beast is alive and well:

 

A280 VTH

✓ Taxed

Tax due:
01 August 2017

✓ MOT

Expires:
15 August 2017

[Junkman]

So is one of the Nimbus Grey ones:

 

 

B872 XTM

✓ Taxed

Tax due:
01 August 2017

✓ MOT

Expires:
24 February 2018

 

 

[Junkman]

The other one is sorned:

 

A333 WGH

✓ SORN

 

✗ No MOT

Expired:
06 February 2016

[Felly Magic]

The first ever Mills spec car I drove was a 2.8i Ghia X with peeled cow interior, and that metallic greeny silver coulour Ford did, it was a lovely cruiser, but was getting on in years by then and was turning brown in lots of places, and being a Granada, half the electrics didn't work, still a nice car though

[Junkman]

Is it only me, or do these look better in dark colours?

[Magnificent Rustbucket]

My favourite is crystal green metallic with brown velour.

[danthecapriman]

Is it only me, or do these look better in dark colours?

Yes!

I like them all regardless of spec or colour. But, yes, darker colours make them look really good. I think the dark paint with the chrome shiny bits is what does it.

Black ones look superb imho.

 

Fingers crossed this end for your MOT tomorrow. I'm sure it'll be fine, it never had much trouble the whole time I had it. The worst was the headlight it once failed on. Very easy fix but it was just time trying to find a new one.

[danthecapriman]

My favourite is crystal green metallic with brown velour.

I like blue cars anyway so I'm sticking with blue paint, and I love the blue velour interiors.

[Junkman]

Entirely btw, all the people who know me from yore have somehow been informed that I have another one.

So there is currently a lot of LTAOing, itoldyousoing, iknewiting, wasabouttimeing, idontbelieveiting and

sowhencapriceing going on. Will I ever hear the end of it?

[danthecapriman]

Funny how things get spread.

Who cares. You clearly like these cars so what's the problem getting another? To have so many of them over the years and still like them must say something.

 

I must say though, I'm surprised your selling your P6('s). I thought it'd be them and this.

[Magnificent Rustbucket]

People do get associated with certain cars - I am with my Jag by people who have known me for a long time. One even jokes it will one day be my funeral pyre, like a Viking, though it is unlikely to float well. I guess it isn't surprising, given I have had it since the end of the last century and it was my dads when they first met me, way back in university. When I was weighing up whether I should repair its galloping rot a year or two back, there was quite a strong reaction amongst them to the possibility it could be scrapped.

[trigger]

 

Now I've sold my P6 I'm after a Granada, i prefer the looks of the pre facelift Mk2.

 

My favourite is crystal green metallic with brown velour.

There's a Crystal green one on ebay I've been talking to the owner about, he'll take £3000 but it's up in Blackburn so hardly local but look at that interior

 

 

[Magnificent Rustbucket]

I saw that too! I prefer the facelifted ones, for old time's sake (my dad had one in the early '80s).

[Junkman]

I must say though, I'm surprised your selling your P6('s). I thought it'd be them and this.

 

If there is one thing I learned in life, it's that if you have too may cars, all of them are half arsed.

[Junkman]

In a minute I'm going to chuck my bike in the back and take it to a garage for exhaust, towbar removal and MOTing tomorrow.

 

Has it passed yet, has it passed yet???

[Junkman]

Has it passed yet, has it passed yet???

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

 

Turns out it's a garage full of Granada fans. They've all owned them at some point. Much admiration. 

 

Exhaust replacement turned out to be a massive pain. I'd bought the correct pipe, but the diameter was a millimetre larger than the centre box outlet allow for, so it had to be heated and stretched. Of course, removing the remains of the old pipes was also an ordeal, but that's why I took it to a garage! Both those downpipes were very much on their last legs, so even if it hadn't been clouted on a rock a couple of weeks ago, it would have failed sooner rather than later.

 

The towbar removal was difficult too, every bolt was a challenge. But it's off now, and the car's looking cleaner and is whisper quiet! 

 

[danthecapriman]

Splendid news indeed. I told you its a good 'un!

The towbar was shit though so I'm glad you've decided to ditch it. Something I'll be doing on my Volvo once im finished towing my Capri around with it. I hate towbars on cars, vans and 4x4's fine but they ruin the looks of cars imho.

 

More pics please, I'd like to see it without the towbar...

[Junkman]

Holy shit!

[Felly Magic]

Trigger all I can say about that you posted is HNNNNNNGGGGG Spaffff, and when's the KOLLEKSHUNFRED?

[danthecapriman]

Holy shit!

You sound surprised!

 

Never any doubt!

[Junkman]

It's a bloody good car, no doubt.

You did a splendid job so far and I can't thank you enough for providing me with a resto base I can work with.

 

I know I'm repeating myself, but I feel like someone must feel when he is released from prison.