Granada ID Help

[Guest]

The best special editions are homebrew dealer ones where they've fitted a slightly out-of-period generic pinstripe set, spraypainted the hubcaps a different colour and given it some sort of name. Wonder if that still happens anywhere? There was some daft "England" special edition Fiesta at the Ford dealers recently, but I don't know if that was their own work or not. Either way, it was spotted later with most of the decals removed.

[autofive]

i ll have a look for the issue of Insight, although i suspect its in the loft*

 

Thanks for that much appreciated. I know I have to dig out some obscure kit car information for another enthusiast from some cobweb infested pigeonhole.

 

Did you get the magazine from a collector in Stanley? (BTW I am in Durham too)

 

no, i bought mag no's 19 - 87 from a book and magazine dealer in herfordshire in 2004

[boobydoo]

The best special editions are homebrew dealer ones

 

Yeah, when I was a Ford salesman in the early nineties we did something called a Fiesta 'Flair'...take a boggo Fiesta Bonus in solid red, white or blue, add a silver pinstripe plus a £99 pop-up sunroof and bingo! One Fiesta Flair at £5995 please! (I think). They were really crap...no rear parcel shelf , white dinner plate hubcaps, basic radio no rear wipe.

[warren t claim]

The best special editions are homebrew dealer ones

 

Yeah, when I was a Ford salesman in the early nineties we did something called a Fiesta 'Flair'...take a boggo Fiesta Bonus in solid red, white or blue, add a silver pinstripe plus a £99 pop-up sunroof and bingo! One Fiesta Flair at £5995 please! (I think). They were really crap...no rear parcel shelf , white dinner plate hubcaps, basic radio no rear wipe.

 

I'd quite like one of those!

[brammy777]

I am pretty sure that the prefacelift Granada I saw on the back of a Transit last year was a Sapphire sadly, it was two tone and all. But like I said before, it looked rotten as hell.

On a slightly different note regarding 'dealer specials' I found an early Proton MPI today covered in stickers saying 'Surrey' and sporting a light blue on the lower half of the doors. Although that could be an OAP owner special.

[eddyramrod]

My mate had a 1979 Granada 2.8 Sapphire, many years ago (20+). It must be long gone now.

[Shep Shepherd]

The best special editions are homebrew dealer ones where they've fitted a slightly out-of-period generic pinstripe set, spraypainted the hubcaps a different colour and given it some sort of name. Wonder if that still happens anywhere? There was some daft "England" special edition Fiesta at the Ford dealers recently, but I don't know if that was their own work or not. Either way, it was spotted later with most of the decals removed.

 

When I still lived in Kent, I quite often used to see a white J-reg Fiesta Bonus badged as a "Fiesta Snowfox"

[warren t claim]

Fiesta limited editions...

 

Dash

Sandpiper

Bravo

Kingfisher

Finnese...

 

Any more?????

[brammy777]

Sunspray.

 

Also has anyone seen that base model Sierra Sapphire sold under the name Sapphire Classic recently? Another special edition Sierra was called the Solitare, but I have only ever seen one of those.

 

Whoops, meant Seaspray. Considering I just looked at a photo I had taken of one with the wording visible, I should probably get an early night.

[Shep Shepherd]

Fiesta limited editions...

 

Dash

Sandpiper

Bravo

Kingfisher

Finnese...

 

Any more?????

 

Off the top of my head, and in no order:

 

Midnight

Millionth Edition

Festival

Bravo 2

Quartz

Super Sport

Fresco

Finesse 2

Holiday

Festival (1987 version)

Festival 2

Bonus

Frascati

Meridian

Flight

Firefly

Firefly 2

Olympus Sport

Chicane

Black

Silver

Series X (not strictly a special edition, rather a range of performance parts that could be fitted by your dealer...)

 

I ought to get out more!

[Pete-M]

There's a lot of forgotten Ford Special Editions, many of which must be extinct by now. I've seen a couple of Escort Linnets recently at shows.

 

Lucky you! ive only seen 1 Escort Linnet in the flesh and that was back in around 1994/1995 when I was still in school,

 

I scrapped a couple of them, but they only cost about £60 in 1989.

[oldford]

Not forgetting the Carousel and Crusader for the Cortinas. The Carousel was limited edition and the Crusader a special edition.

[Albert Ross]

Capri Calypso, Tempo, Cameo, and Cabaret too.

[Morgan84]

Fiesta Calpso ( Webasto roof )

Mistral

Java

[ashmicro]

Anyone remember the Micra Wave? Idles for 3 minutes and goes DING!

[Morgan84]

Anyone remember the Micra Wave? Idles for 3 minutes and goes DING!

Was about a 1994 special edition based on the 1.0 L - only ever saw a blue one

[Morgan84]

I might wait for the 'Dot' or even the 'Boston'

[eddyramrod]

Capri Cabaret, did someone say?

Actually it's a Cabaret 2, but I don't suppose that matters as much as it being my car for about 6 months in 1996. I believe it's gone to scrap, which it richly deserved.

[Pete-M]

My mate Suicide Ste had a green Capri Calypso for years. Bloody thing just kept on going.

 

I still want a Cortina 2000E Olympic.

[RoadworkUK]

I remember, when I was 7, picking up the latest Ford CARS brochure (summer 1988 IIRC) to see that they had brought out an Escort GL Plus.

 

All the glorious traditional grand luxe features, plus electric windows! Imagine that. They became standard on the GL almost immediately afterwards. I nearly got a hard-on.

 

Also, I remember when MK1 Sierra Lasers were everywhere. They were the bollocks, and seemed to coincid with Matchbox releasing their first Laser Wheel cars. Surely not a total coincidence?

[Morgan84]

Was it only the Sierra and Capri to wear the Laser badge ?

[Albert Ross]

I seem to think Mk3 Escorts had the "Laser" badging for a short while, the seats in the Xr3 had "Laser" trim in Black/Blue, or Black/Red.

[Barry Cade]

Fiesta XRV vans, in Mk2 +Mk3.. were pretty popular up here for a time.