Ebay Tat Volume 2 - Sadly deceased.

[Pete-M]

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.

[Shep Shepherd]

That Cortina was registered on my fifth birthday

 

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

[eddyramrod]

That Cortina was registered on my fifth birthday

 

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)

...and here's the After:

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

[Shep Shepherd]

That Cortina was registered on my fifth birthday

 

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)

...and here's the After:

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

 

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...

[Alexg]

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/FORD-CORTINA-2ltr ... 20b5dce0c1

Live the dream

 

wow- it's like going back in time to 1990 and watching the 'hard' kids from the local council estate getting dropped off at primary school again.

[brammy777]

Sadly I am too young to remember battered Cortinas on the streets, the hard kid at my primary school was dropped off in a manky MKIII Granada which got gradually worse as the year went on.

[DCLane]

Better than me.

 

Our 'hard' kids had Viva's and Mk1 Escorts for parental taxi's.

 

Hang on ... my parents had those too!

[mattblack]

 

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/1983-Austin-Mini- ... 3a612ea183

 

Modified by a blind spaz, off the road since 2005... bid up to 2.8K

[eddyramrod]

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.

[trigger]

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.

 

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.

[mattblack]

 

This R GR8 4 BEIN PAINTED WIV DULUX

 

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/1993-VAUXHALL-CAR ... 230c877d64

[dollywobbler]

My. That Scorpio is a thing of beauty! Sadly, my wife isn't really the white stilleto type.

[eddyramrod]

My. That Scorpio is a thing of beauty! Sadly, my wife isn't really the white stilleto type.

 

No problem, the Stiletto is a much older and smaller car made by Sunbeam...

[Guest]

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.

[dollywobbler]

Be a Commander!

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/1985-VAUXHALL-CAV ... 0630982324

[Shep Shepherd]

That Scorpio is astounding. There are a couple of videos of it on YouTube, incidentaly

 

As for the Cavalier, if I had more space, I'd be all over it...

[Shep Shepherd]

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!

[eddyramrod]

There's a thread on here where I posted pics of both my Princesses, with little relevance to whatever was being discussed...

[Rebuilda]

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?

[Shep Shepherd]

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

[Rebuilda]

Proper 'barn find' country then...

Our 'finds' were always in long disused council garages... 23 cortinas in six months... 3's 4's and 5's

Ended up with a 2.8 auto in a 1972 coke bottle 2 door on 13's... nice little sleeper but wallowed like the titanic round corners.

[eddyramrod]

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.

[CIH]

Another ZOMG teh Scorpio here. That thing is awesome.

[Pete-M]

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;

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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

[Angrydicky]

Has that Granada even got a bodykit? If so, I think it looks great, and I'm definitely not a Ford man...

[Alexg]

Picked if only for this rather off putting photo

 

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/1985-SUZUKI-SJ410 ... 2c597349e1

 

All American hero

 

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/1973-FORD-RED-/16 ... 255fa99d14

[ashmicro]

Top photo, Alex, equals:

 

 

+

 

[eddyramrod]

Picked if only for this rather off putting photo

 

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/1985-SUZUKI-SJ410 ... 2c597349e1

 

Down, Bullseye! (Can you tell I saw a panto with Bill Sykes in it the other night... )

 

What a sad Mustang too.

[CreepingJesus]

'73 Mustang (presumably a Boss, given the 351) on an '80 W plate? Surely it would have to be a 'J' or a 'Q'.

Come to think of it, I've seen this before, with ex-USAF staff cars. Did they have some sort of deal with the DoT to enable them to be re-registered here, if left behind? Anyone know?

Still, it would be one hell of a project.

[eddyramrod]

Single-imports like that Mustang were registered with whatever was current until Swansea started using prefix letters (A 123 ABC etc). It was then that Q-prefix plates began turning up, so if this car entered the country in about 1980, the W-suffix is right. If it came in new, it would most likely have an L or M suffix, for 1973.