1985 Ford Granada Ghia X Estate
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I have recently acquired a third share in this large, very scruffy, but really rather good old shed. I had always assumed that Fords were rubbish - mass market tosh, cheaply made. This one, however, is a quality item, made in Germany at a time when Germans still made good cars. It has all the toys, 1985 stylee, and most of them still work. The 2.8 litre single carb Cologne V6 is peppy, and the three speed autobox is smooth. Great brakes, surprisingly good handling, and big enough to rent out for student housing.
I am only going to keep my share for a bit, and then let one of the other two loons buy me out, but it's great fun while it lasts!
I am only going to keep my share for a bit, and then let one of the other two loons buy me out, but it's great fun while it lasts!
Edited by anonymous-user on Monday 27th March 22:50
They have always had a certain class that is somehow hard to define when you look at the sum of the parts yet somehow works.
I guess that part of it must be that, by the early mid eighties, they were selling in tiny numbers as everyone wanted Volvo 240s/MB 123 Estates/them new-fangled Audi Avants. The only people I knew who had them in the day were people who had them as company cars from a 'buy British' company
I guess that part of it must be that, by the early mid eighties, they were selling in tiny numbers as everyone wanted Volvo 240s/MB 123 Estates/them new-fangled Audi Avants. The only people I knew who had them in the day were people who had them as company cars from a 'buy British' company
My old dad had one of these in the 90s, which he used as a van (complete with enormous splattery bucket and bags of cement in the boot). I recall Brian Sewell (who was a massive petrolhead) writing a rave review of the type in the Evening Standard.
It's a great dumpster truck for runs to the local tip (I stupidly sold my Series Landy that used to be the tip runner), and also a very comfortable and capable motorway cruiser, and it's not even as mega thirsty as I thought that it might be.
It's a great dumpster truck for runs to the local tip (I stupidly sold my Series Landy that used to be the tip runner), and also a very comfortable and capable motorway cruiser, and it's not even as mega thirsty as I thought that it might be.
Ever since we sold out to the suits and replaced the partners' winter conference (long weekend in Verbier) with an annual leaders and managers seminar (three days in some ghastly hotel catering for golfists and happy to take a block booking from an organisation content to employ people in senior positions who's shirt sleeves don't make it past the elbow) I have made it a point of pride to rock up in the schlonkiest road-legal car on the fleet, to off-set all the Range Rover Sports on PCP.
Glad your chum has tha same outlook
Glad your chum has tha same outlook
I like your style, ClaphamGT3. When my daughter was at a very wky prep school in Hampstead, (the sort of place where a kid gets bullied because daddy's BMW is three years old, thus making Daddy a pov - not my choice of school, and daughter now at a sensible place instead), I used to fk with the heads of the socially competitive Mrs Hedge Fund yummy mummies by turning up in the most appalling old stbox I could lay my hands on. They just couldn't compute. The lacquer peely and slightly crusty Granny would be great for that sort of thing.
Edited by anonymous-user on Tuesday 28th March 09:03
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