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Post Tue Mar 18, 2014 9:56 pm

Blimey!

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Breathtaking- ... 417e21b873
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Post Tue Mar 18, 2014 10:09 pm

Thats rampant ! I had a T plate Ghia injector in that colour with no vinyl back in '88 :)
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Post Tue Mar 18, 2014 10:21 pm

Hawaiian blue for the win!

The Gramada L with the silver dah looked better to me than the GL/Ghia fake wood.

The two spoke enlarged Cortina steering wheels says that this one doesn't have PAS. :eek:
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Post Tue Mar 18, 2014 10:39 pm

How the hell has that survived so well :eek:

You used to be able to watch these coonts rust as you washed them :mad:
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Post Tue Mar 18, 2014 10:44 pm

:cool:
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Post Tue Mar 18, 2014 10:50 pm

OH WOW! 8O :drool:

Dan, Mk2's were not that bad for rust.

German built don't you know? :)
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Post Tue Mar 18, 2014 10:58 pm

Only 10 times worse than an E30 then? :D

A neighbour has a mk2, must have about 26 coats of paint in places now....
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Post Wed Mar 19, 2014 7:57 am

Blimey, that is clean. When I was a (very!) young lad I can remember being particularly envious of all the Granada pilots as my Dad chauffeured me about in his W plate Escort 1.3 L. He later upgraded to a C plate Escort 1.6 Ghia but the 2.8 Ghia X was where its at for the executives!
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Post Wed Mar 19, 2014 5:28 pm

That is timewarp. Amazing. I would never have entertained it back in the day mind. Only ever Ghias or later on, Ghia x's for me.
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Post Fri Mar 21, 2014 1:07 pm

I had one in metallic silver! :)
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Post Fri Mar 21, 2014 5:54 pm

Gert_8 wrote:I had one in metallic silver! :)
Mine was Glacier Blue. I had a 79 pre facelift Ghia as well in Strato Silver with the vinyl :cool:
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Post Fri Mar 21, 2014 6:02 pm

B7 wrote:
Gert_8 wrote:I had one in metallic silver! :)
Mine was Glacier Blue. I had a 79 pre facelift Ghia as well in Strato Silver with the vinyl :cool:
Executive coont! :D
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Post Fri Mar 21, 2014 9:54 pm

I had two Y plate 2.8i Ghia X's, one stratos silver and the other caspian blue. :)
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Post Fri Mar 21, 2014 11:06 pm

My old man had a Solar gold 2.3L with the number plate DUD2V. Used to work on loads of them 25 years ago, very popular bangers run by the local farmers. The rarest was a Fjord bue 1979 GLS I Estate, complete with spotlights and TRX tyres. Another had an early 2.3 that was retrofitted with a low compression 2 litre Transit Pinto lump. :)

Best of all was a 1983 Ghia X 2.8i manual, a one off?
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Post Fri Mar 21, 2014 11:30 pm

I remember seeing the odd manual 2.8i Ghia X pop up for sale when they were still about. Very rare though!
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Post Sat Mar 22, 2014 7:33 am

Andyboy wrote:GLS I Estate, complete with spotlights and TRX tyres.
There is a champagne coloured one of these still doing the rounds in Naaarrrwich. Can't remember the last time I saw a saloon on the roads.
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Post Sat Mar 22, 2014 8:08 am

Yeah, When looking for my "X" I remember going to see a metallic red (Imperial red?)one in Cheam and when I walked up the drive, was surprised to see it was a manual. Turns out the guy had had it for sale for yonks and couldn't sell it!! I walked away as in them days, it was all about the resale and people wanting one of these executive chariots, demanded auto in the main.

Have to say, driving it, I also thought "this just doesn't "work"".

I always wanted either the Sapphire (78-79 Dark Blue over Silver) or the Estate Chasseur complete with bespoke luggage.
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Post Sat Mar 22, 2014 10:29 am

Chasseur injector FTW ! :D

Its all about the bitter chocolate leatherz and 'Chatham' velourz ! Knock yourself out ! :)

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Post Sat Mar 22, 2014 12:25 pm

Not a MK2 but check the velourz in this one :D

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1976-Mk1-Gran ... 19ea5f5dec
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Post Tue Mar 25, 2014 9:04 am

Andyboy wrote: Best of all was a 1983 Ghia X 2.8i manual, a one off?
My Dad had an 'X' plate(iirc) 2.8i Ghia X manual saloon in Titus(?) Blue back in the day as a company car, I loved it 8)

His own choice of cars went downhil after that :(
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Post Wed Mar 26, 2014 9:30 pm

nickso wrote:Not a MK2 but check the velourz in this one :D

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1976-Mk1-Gran ... 19ea5f5dec
Jesus. I hate green but that is fucking lovely!
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Post Wed Mar 26, 2014 9:37 pm

suchy wrote:
Andyboy wrote: Best of all was a 1983 Ghia X 2.8i manual, a one off?
My Dad had an 'X' plate(iirc) 2.8i Ghia X manual saloon in Titus(?) Blue back in the day as a company car, I loved it 8)

His own choice of cars went downhil after that :(
Not sure on Titus? The common 82 blue was either Caspian or the lighter Glacier (which later changed to Paris blue ). However, I did look at one just off the North Circular in about 87 that was Caribbean blue. That was a pale solid colour, more commonly found on 1.3L Mk3 Escorts!!! 8O Turned out to be an import that had no Sunroof. All Granada's from GL's up had a sunroof as standard in those days. It was indeed, a bit of an oddball.
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Post Wed Apr 09, 2014 10:05 pm

pacerpete wrote:Chasseur injector FTW ! :D

Its all about the bitter chocolate leatherz and 'Chatham' velourz ! Knock yourself out ! :)

Those seats are magnificent, Chasseur, was that like the Cortina Crusader?
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