A 'period' classics pictures thread (Mk II)
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PomBstard said:
Nope, not that one. I mean the earlier, curvy Granada vaguely resembling the Mk111 Tina in style. 
I have an idea it was badged "Fairlane" but can't be sure.
Ford Europe brought 2 of these back to Germany for evaluation but the oil crisis killed the plan.
They did a handful of the Mk 2 ones as well
aeropilot said:
Ford AVO Special Build at Aveley also built a V8 engine Mk.1 Granada for Henry Ford II to use on visits to the UK.
I was reading in a classic mag that he also commissioned a 2.8 Capri to be converted to an automatic for his use while in the uk. This was obvs later than the Granada. Mr lestat said:
aeropilot said:
Ford AVO Special Build at Aveley also built a V8 engine Mk.1 Granada for Henry Ford II to use on visits to the UK.
I was reading in a classic mag that he also commissioned a 2.8 Capri to be converted to an automatic for his use while in the uk. This was obvs later than the Granada. There was also a Roman Bronze painted with leather interior and leccy sunroof Escort RS2000 MK.2 as well in between the Granada V8 and the 2.8 Capri....I think the RS2000 may have been an auto as well?
aeropilot said:
Correct.
There was also a Roman Bronze painted with leather interior and leccy sunroof Escort RS2000 MK.2 as well in between the Granada V8 and the 2.8 Capri....I think the RS2000 may have been an auto as well?
Continuing off topic, the Capri auto was recently for sale on Carandclassic auction, no idea where it finished up.There was also a Roman Bronze painted with leather interior and leccy sunroof Escort RS2000 MK.2 as well in between the Granada V8 and the 2.8 Capri....I think the RS2000 may have been an auto as well?
Wasn’t the Professionals RS2000 also one with a special sunroof?
soxboy said:
aeropilot said:
Correct.
There was also a Roman Bronze painted with leather interior and leccy sunroof Escort RS2000 MK.2 as well in between the Granada V8 and the 2.8 Capri....I think the RS2000 may have been an auto as well?
Continuing off topic, the Capri auto was recently for sale on Carandclassic auction, no idea where it finished up.There was also a Roman Bronze painted with leather interior and leccy sunroof Escort RS2000 MK.2 as well in between the Granada V8 and the 2.8 Capri....I think the RS2000 may have been an auto as well?
Wasn’t the Professionals RS2000 also one with a special sunroof?
https://www.carandclassic.co.uk/auctions/1981-ford...
Funnily enough it had gone for £10k just 3 years earlier....
https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/24121/lot/608/
Belgrave Avenue, Leicester in 1962 or 1963.
CMA948 was my dad's car. It was the Earls Court show car in 1935 and featured extras such as built in hydraulic jacks. He told me years later that he paid very little for it. It had been more or less abandoned in a garage for some years and in those days few people were interested in prewar cars.
I remember it well; it was the first car I ever drove. Sort of... I "drove" it sitting on Dad's knees at Bruntingthorpe Airfield when I was five years old!
He sold it to an artist called Peter something who stuck Union Jack stickers on it which annoyed the old man a bit, but one man's meat and all that.
Originally it was (IIRCC) Dove Grey. It's still around although it has been repainted mainly gold. It also seems to have the wrong wheels in the picture I found online, although to be fair it might just be missing wheel covers.
Nice to know it's still being looked after though.
Any idea what the contraption behind it is? I remember Mum driving it before she got a car license, owing to some peculiarity at the time about provisional licenses. Can't remember exactly what it was though.
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Any idea what the contraption behind it is? I remember Mum driving it before she got a car license, owing to some peculiarity at the time about provisional licenses. Can't remember exactly what it was though.
Looks like a Bond Minicar circa 1950. 
RichB said:
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Any idea what the contraption behind it is? I remember Mum driving it before she got a car license, owing to some peculiarity at the time about provisional licenses. Can't remember exactly what it was though.
Looks like a Bond Minicar circa 1950. Well spotted Rich.
Error_404_Username_not_found said:
Ah,I think you're right. That does ring a bell. Too lazy to look it up but ISTR a Villiers twostroke under the bonnet which had to be kick started.
Well spotted Rich.
Didn't Bond Minicars have Villiers' electric Dynastart with kick starter as emergency back-up? Well spotted Rich.
Invacar Villiers engines could be started clockwise or anticlockwise to facilitate going backwards without a separate reverse gear. Did Bond share this feature?
bigothunter said:
Didn't Bond Minicars have Villiers' electric Dynastart with kick starter as emergency back-up?
Invacar Villiers engines could be started clockwise or anticlockwise to facilitate going backwards without a separate reverse gear. Did Bond share this feature?
I believe it did. I dimly remember it having two sets of points for that very reason. It didn't have a reverse gear so that it could be driven legally on a motorcycle license. Or some waffle like that. Invacar Villiers engines could be started clockwise or anticlockwise to facilitate going backwards without a separate reverse gear. Did Bond share this feature?
I don't remember a dynastart but gimme break - I was five in '62!
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RichB said:
Error_404_Username_not_found][url][thumb said:
Any idea what the contraption behind it is? I remember Mum driving it before she got a car license, owing to some peculiarity at the time about provisional licenses. Can't remember exactly what it was though.
Looks like a Bond Minicar circa 1950. Well spotted Rich.
bigothunter said:
Didn't Bond Minicars have Villiers' electric Dynastart with kick starter as emergency back-up?
Invacar Villiers engines could be started clockwise or anticlockwise to facilitate going backwards without a separate reverse gear. Did Bond share this feature?
They did indeed, but as with every Dynastart, it pretty-much stopped working properly as soon as it left the showroom! Invacar Villiers engines could be started clockwise or anticlockwise to facilitate going backwards without a separate reverse gear. Did Bond share this feature?
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