Trigs new project - Granada Scorpio

[trigger]

Yo gang, so as i posted on the New 24 thread the other day i accidentally talked myself into a buying a Scorpio... Short story long is a lady on my East Coast Retros FB group asked if anyone would be interested in her fathers old car, the banger boys and breakers started sniffing around, Cavcraft Billy recommend it could be a good idea for me to go and view it to give her an idea on it's value and what to do with it, so last weekend  i popped round to take a look.

Apparently the owner parked it in the garage as usual back in 2009 but sadly died and his elderly widow wouldn't allow anyone to sell it or move it, unfortunately now she's 87 the family need to start sorting her belongings out and wanted a good home for this, after a quick look around i found myself making a offer and buying it... ?

This morning the recovery driver came and dropped it off, unbelievably he had got it running! he said he just put is jump pack on it to get the window down and the car fired straight up! amazing!

The bodywork isn't quite as nice as i hoped as the sills been dented and patched up and both rear aches are rusty but all in all it's very straight and really does run nicely!.

Also unbelievably everything in the interior works too!

Fingers crossed this won't take a awful lot to sort out and make nice again, tomorrows job will be a thoroughly good wash and hoover inside as there's been mice living it it.  Looking at the history it was sold by Bristol Street Motors in 1989 and done 53000 miles in the first 3 years before ending up at John Grose Ford here in Ipswich in 1992 where the last owner bought it from, he's then had them service it every year since! It's now done 115000 miles which although high are clearly well looked after miles. 

It's great!

[omegod]

Oh wow, that is ace and I've always thought they were the comfiest looking seats ever 

[busmansholiday]

Was the lucky fairy at your birth as I cannot believe how you manage to find such excellent buys.

Keep us updated, winner at next years FOTU?.

 

 

[Brodders]

That is top quality right there. Even 30 years down the line, that fully lit up dashboard manages to look futuristic. Does the joystick for the speakers still work as it should? 

It is also a pretty good sign that it all it took to start up was a jump start after standing for around ten years. Really looking forward to seeing you get this back in good shape and on the road.

[purplebargeken]

I've had about 3 or 4 of these Grannies, they are brilliant things, so comfy too. 

Looking forward to the resto.

If you don't mind me asking, how much did you pay for it?

[cort16]

Pure filth man. Looks great .

looking forward to seeing your adventures fixing it.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

  On 24/08/2019 at 21:18, purplebargeken said:

..... how much did you pay for it?

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400 squid, I think yer man said....

[trigger]

  On 24/08/2019 at 21:00, busmansholiday said:

Was the lucky fairy at your birth as I cannot believe how you manage to find such excellent buys.

Keep us updated, winner at next years FOTU?.

 

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A lot of people say that! I don't know to be honest, Just have a eye for nice, honest cars i guess. If I've still got it then I'll be taking it to FotU but i won't be entering the concourse, it's far too posh!

  On 24/08/2019 at 21:14, Brodders said:

That is top quality right there. Even 30 years down the line, that fully lit up dashboard manages to look futuristic. Does the joystick for the speakers still work as it should? 

It is also a pretty good sign that it all it took to start up was a jump start after standing for around ten years. Really looking forward to seeing you get this back in good shape and on the road.

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It does still work! It's a little crackly but it does it's thing. 

  On 24/08/2019 at 21:18, purplebargeken said:

I've had about 3 or 4 of these Grannies, they are brilliant things, so comfy too. 

Looking forward to the resto.

If you don't mind me asking, how much did you pay for it?

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This is amazingly comfortable, i haven't sat behind the wheel of one for 20 years but it reminded me why i used to like them so much back then, it owes me £460 delivered, I'm not sure if that's cheap or not but at the time i didn't know if it would run or what the nearside and rear end even looked like so i was buying blind as such.

[HMC]

Winner winner chicken dinner!!!!!

[purplebargeken]

I think at that price it was well worth taking a punt on. 

The 2.9 was my favourite engine

[Skizzer]

That’s flippin ace Trig, well saved.

This is going to be another legendary thread.

[schonker]

Knowing what you do with your other cars and van, this will be looking pretty good soon

[egg]

Senator V Scorpio....needs to be done!

Fantastic car.

[HMC]

I keep reading FIGGBOK on the numberplate

[Craig the Princess]

Always liked the MK3 Granada/Scorpio but that really looks the business. Well bought.

[BL Bloke]

Well saved. I look forward to seeing you work your magic on it. 

[danthecapriman]

Brilliant! Looks a lovely lovely car and I think you got a bargain there. It bodes well that it started up so easily! I guess the previous owner was a cat lover...

 

I very nearly bought a J reg saloon version of this in silver. It had absolutely everything on it too but insurance was steep as at the time I’d not had my license long and my indecision lost me the car in the end. This was probably in about 2003ish. Something I always regret!

 

[Burnside]

Well done trigger another epic save there, I got offered a early C reg White 2.0 GL model when I was just 14 years old back in 1997 for £20! Sadly I had no where to keep it so had to turn it down along with the Yellow Metro City X they had, but have always admired them since. Look forward to seeing your future progress with it.

[JeeExEll]

If the autobox doesn't shift into top and it also has an erratic / non-working speedo change the speedo sensor at the gearbox for a new one. Just takes a few minutes.

Hey presto, four forward gears !!!!

[RobT]

  On 24/08/2019 at 21:49, egg said:

Senator V Scorpio....needs to be done!

Fantastic car.

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Too right.

Looks superb Trig.  White with the cladding and those wheels look gr9.

[Eyersey1234]

Wow what a find. Well saved OP. I look forward to hearing more adventures. Chodspeed. 

[beko1987]

My dad had a lowly 2l red one with cloth seats, so these hold a special place in my heart!

I'd love one but could never afford to run it sadly

[Wingz123]

My swimming teacher had a silver 2.0 saloon

[Noel Tidybeard]

now i wonder if it was Bristol st birm or shirley?

iirc this should do the thing where the electric windows stay live when you open the drivers door after taking key out of ign

[eddyramrod]

Nice work Trig!  And you were only saying recently how you wanted a family-type car to replace the van... lo and behold, one pops up!  You must have Lucky Lips (Cliff Richard song from the early 60s, for those too young to know!).  My late friend Dave had three or four of these, 2.0 and 2.9.  He liked them a lot.  I hope you can be very happy with it.

[trigger]

  On 24/08/2019 at 23:18, Noel Tidybeard said:

now i wonder if it was Bristol st birm or shirley?
iirc this should do the thing where the electric windows stay live when you open the drivers door after taking key out of ign

Bristol Street apparently.



To be honest this is a bit newer than I was looking for but it will certainly do for now and at least I'll be able to take the family to shows with me now, something I haven't been able to do since I sold the SD1. What I have to decide will be what to do with the arches and sills, both arches are rusty and the both sills have been welded up along the bottom, if the car was worth more money when looking nice it be worth getting them replaced but it's still a low value car so if I chuck £1000 at it would I see it back again?

That's something I'm going to have to think about once it's mechanical sorted and cleaned up I guess.

[Noel Tidybeard]

they are still there!

[vulgalour]

If you're worried about making a loss, don't do anything to the sills and arches beyond a clean, you'll be unlikely to see your money back as these haven't appreciated in the same way as the smaller Sierra and the mileage will put most off.  A shame, really, they're one of the nicer Ford offerings from the period, a nice sensible comfortable car built moderately well and suitably appointed.  The Sierra seems to overshadow them a lot, people remember the Granada either side of the Mk3 and forget these existed, even the sporting versions don't get that much attention comparitively.  Not really sure why, perhaps they're just a bit too much An Car for most?

[Ghosty]

At £400 you have a fair old chunk to play with before it owes you anything. Especially as it seems to be V6?

[ProgRocker]

Excellent save Trigger. Good luck with this fine beast.    ?