1985 Ford Granada Ghia X Estate

1985 Ford Granada Ghia X Estate

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anonymous-user

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53 months

Monday 27th March 2017
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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!





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anonymous-user

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Monday 27th March 2017
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ClaphamGT3

11,269 posts

242 months

Tuesday 28th March 2017
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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

anonymous-user

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53 months

Tuesday 28th March 2017
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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.

anonymous-user

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53 months

Tuesday 28th March 2017
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Mrs BV likes it:-










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Google [bot]

6,682 posts

180 months

Tuesday 28th March 2017
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Great car, I had an 83/84 saloon. As you've been away you may have missed THIS recent and great thread

anonymous-user

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53 months

Tuesday 28th March 2017
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Cheers, and thanks for the link.

One of the co-owners took the car to a corporate shindig at Cliveden, and managed not to get fired:-




ClaphamGT3

11,269 posts

242 months

Tuesday 28th March 2017
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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

TartanPaint

2,981 posts

138 months

Tuesday 28th March 2017
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I'd say that Granada has far more class than half the generic transport appliances in that carpark. (Excluding the XF maybe.)

PixelpeepS3

8,600 posts

141 months

Tuesday 28th March 2017
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Lovely car BV - remember in the 80's my friends dad had one of the saloon versions - it had (what seemed like) the whole right side of the boot taken up with model number...


anonymous-user

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53 months

Tuesday 28th March 2017
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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.




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croyde

22,701 posts

229 months

Tuesday 28th March 2017
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Around 1981, me and a mate were going to form a courier company so we spent ages looking for what company cars we would like. You know, had to sort the important stuff, then look for clients, employees and build up custom biggrin

This was the car we both wanted.

ClaphamGT3

11,269 posts

242 months

Tuesday 28th March 2017
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Had to arrive relatively early this year to make sure that I could park this vision of crustiness next to the UK CEO's Bentley GT

rallycross

12,744 posts

236 months

Tuesday 28th March 2017
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Good find have not seen one of these on the road for years.
Back in the day these were the number one choice of tow car (for racing drivers), any race circuit paddock would be full of these, fast, robust, powerful and nice to drive.

anonymous-user

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53 months

Tuesday 28th March 2017
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Antique dealers like them too - you can get sideboards and so on in the back.

anonymous-user

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53 months

Tuesday 28th March 2017
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Hey Clapham, gotta love the Brexit-special Mini.

ClaphamGT3

11,269 posts

242 months

Tuesday 28th March 2017
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Really tempted to get a circle of 13 stars wrap. Even in SW4 it would make enough Brexiteers heads explode to relieve the ennui of post Brexit urban decay

Roy Lime

594 posts

131 months

Tuesday 28th March 2017
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You seem to think Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels was an automotive lifestyle guide.

This is obviously a good thing.

Welcome back.

anonymous-user

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53 months

Tuesday 28th March 2017
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Cheers Roy. I have not yet succumbed to a P6. Should I? Room in the back for the shooters?

Good wrappage plan, ClaphamGT3. Park it up on bricks to piss them off even more once all the money to buy petrol runs out and we are back to trading magic beans.

S10GTA

12,645 posts

166 months

Tuesday 28th March 2017
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I like the cut of your jib