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Mk1s are supposed to be a little less rot-prone too, would be a shame to see another old Subaru end up as some farm/off road hack.

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Bloody hellfire, it's got proper GLS Recaros, a four branch manifold and appears to be a good'un other than needing a lot of paint and TLC.

 

The Ashley exhaust is a bad thing though. Noisy as foooook. Put a proper Cortina airbox back on it and a 2.0 exhaust (keep the 4 branch..) and it'll be much nicer.

 

Fitting the GLS clocks is an hours work, tops. Swap a few wires round and add the tacho feed. Easy.

 

If it wasn't for the bloody 604, I'd be bidding on that.

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That Cortina was registered on my fifth birthday :D

 

If it was one colour all-over, I'd be very interested in it :)

 

20 years ago I had a Cortina Mk5 that was registered on my 23rd birthday! And it was at least two colours (where it shouldn't be), so I had it resprayed. Here's the Before (mine's the green one)

Cortinapair-vi.jpg

...and here's the After:

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In the first pic, the other car is indeed wearing panels off the same car that donated my NSF door. THIS is recycling! :D

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That Cortina was registered on my fifth birthday :D

 

If it was one colour all-over, I'd be very interested in it :)

 

20 years ago I had a Cortina Mk5 that was registered on my 23rd birthday! And it was at least two colours (where it shouldn't be), so I had it resprayed. Here's the Before (mine's the green one)

Cortinapair-vi.jpg

...and here's the After:

Peppermint-vi.jpg

In the first pic, the other car is indeed wearing panels off the same car that donated my NSF door. THIS is recycling! :D

 

Nice colour. I remember seeing quite a few Cortinas and Granadas in the same hue, as well as plenty sporting mismatched panels from scrapped cars. You don't really see the latter very much now...

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Nice colour. I remember seeing quite a few Cortinas and Granadas in the same hue

 

Thank you Shep. It's Peppermint Green, which was never officially issued on the Mk5, but I chose it having passed my test in a Peppermint Mk1 Fiesta. I might use it again on a restoration over here too, I still like it. A contributory factor was that my lush triple-black Princess had just been destroyed (in daylight) by a lad who said "sorry, I didn't see you." Obviously that went on the claim form... So I thought I'd better have something he CAN see this time! It was certainly issued on Mk2 Escorts, Mk2 and 3 Capris, Mk4 Tinas... I don't remember seeing it on any Granadas, but I'm sure one will pop up on ebay to prove me wrong.

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http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/VERY-RARE-1975-BM ... 33636d8df8

 

This 1975 BMW 1602 just like my old one, is up for sale for a staggering £2200, I sold mine with a years ticket and in full working order for only £1650 a few months ago, Makes mine look very cheap now.

 

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http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/1988-Ford-Granada ... 2eb20289c6

 

I think this belongs to Lewis on RR, I love these with the full RS kit and when painted white, most people hate the kits though, I say bo11ox to the haters, I'd roll this. 8)

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That Granada Scorpio is the absolute business, that one belongs to Lewis alright. Everything he gets seems to be superb. Can't remember the last time I ever saw one sporting a bodykit.

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Nice colour. I remember seeing quite a few Cortinas and Granadas in the same hue

 

Thank you Shep. It's Peppermint Green, which was never officially issued on the Mk5, but I chose it having passed my test in a Peppermint Mk1 Fiesta. I might use it again on a restoration over here too, I still like it. A contributory factor was that my lush triple-black Princess had just been destroyed (in daylight) by a lad who said "sorry, I didn't see you." Obviously that went on the claim form... So I thought I'd better have something he CAN see this time! It was certainly issued on Mk2 Escorts, Mk2 and 3 Capris, Mk4 Tinas... I don't remember seeing it on any Granadas, but I'm sure one will pop up on ebay to prove me wrong.

 

In the late 1980s, there was a 1980 Granada Ghia saloon in Peppermint Green on an estate not far from where I lived in Kent. It had a black vinyl roof and looked the absolute business :)

 

You had a triple-black Princess? Lucky sod!

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I owned a Mk1 Granada Coupe in peppermint green, but it was metallic with a black vinyl roof, never got it working as it got lifted by the council when the tarp blew off in the wind.

I used to live in Swanley back then, Shep which bit of kent were you in?

 

In a village called Eastry, a little bit east of Canterbury :)

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I owned a Mk1 Granada Coupe in peppermint green, but it was metallic with a black vinyl roof,

 

Ford Peppermint Green was never a metallic colour, but they did have a couple of very pretty metallic light greens in the 70s. My Capri was Evergreen before it was painted red, a very long time ago. It's quite possible the new owner will return it to original, I haven't seen it for weeks.

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That Granada Scorpio is the absolute business, that one belongs to Lewis alright. Everything he gets seems to be superb. Can't remember the last time I ever saw one sporting a bodykit.

 

My much-missed Mk2 Granada 2.8 injection had the mega-rare RS bodykit, which I removed promptly and chucked in the bin as it was fugly. Even though I'm a Ford anorak, the optional RS bodykits are something I've never been a fan of. I don't regret ripping that kit off, even though there's probably a German Granada freak who'd pay billions in *'OSF Tax' for it.

 

Same kit as this;

 

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*OSF tax is merely paying for the bits you really want ;-)

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