Granada Coupe

granadamad

Hi, ive posted on other forums with no joy.

I'am looking for a granada coupe in Ireland needing work, anyone know
of any lying up or anything?

Thanks

mike65

Carzone had three (!) listed a while back sadly all gone.

Mike.

kyote00

have a look over on www.everyfordireland.com, they have fords of all types and may be able to point you in the right direction....

corktina

i think he already did....:D

carchaeologist

Hard enough car to find, they are even scarce in england due to rust and the banger boys,there was one for sale in tralee at the side of the road a few weeks back, havnt seen it since though,it was a good one aswell,a kind of grey colour,and on ZVs.If i hear or see anymore il post up.

ianobrien

granadamad wrote: »

Hi, ive posted on other forums with no joy.

I'am looking for a granada coupe in Ireland needing work, anyone know
of any lying up or anything?

Thanks

PM me. I've got a buddy who has one who may sell.....

carchaeologist

Heres a shot of a tidy looking one...

granadamad

ianobrien wrote: »

PM me. I've got a buddy who has one who may sell.....

thanks for that ive sent you a PM

and yes corKtina i have tried everyfordireland, just joined recently in my search efforts!

thats for the suugestion kyote00

granadamad

carchaeologist wrote: »

Heres a shot of a tidy looking one...

talking big money for one like that!
got plenty of mark 1 spares so basically id love to get hold of a shell and the 'coupe specific' parts

carchaeologist

The MK1 granada is one of the best looking cars ever made i reckon, though this one met a sticky end in rosegreen a few years ago,and it was an irish car too...it wasnt the only good MK1 to meet its maker there, i have a few other pics that arent digital.

G Luxel

There was also a 4 door coupe made by Coleman Milne so even rarer than the 2 door coupe.

granadamad

G Luxel wrote: »

There was also a 4 door coupe made by Coleman Milne so even rarer than the 2 door coupe.

yes,i believe there was 11 made, i know of the where abouts of one of such but am looking for the ordinary coupe to put back on the road later this year/early next year.
this is my signature on other forums and has a pic of that coupe lying up in Ireland in the middle

carchaeologist

G Luxel wrote: »

There was also a 4 door coupe made by Coleman Milne so even rarer than the 2 door coupe.

yes, there was one of these banger raced at the ipswitch speedeweekend in 1987, the first of its kind to be raced, so make that 10 left....

Apologies for the bad quality pic, i havent got a scanner....:D

Kevin_Herron

There was also one written off brand new in London. I remember a blue one being banger raced in the U.K around 7 or 8 years ago.
And there is the famous fully restored white one that is on the show circuit in England.
This one is also lying up in the U.K.

granadamad

Kevin_Herron wrote: »

There was also one written off brand new in London. I remember a blue one being banger raced in the U.K around 7 or 8 years ago.
And there is the famous fully restored white one that is on the show circuit in England.
This one is also lying up in the U.K.

know of any coupes around,kevin?

Kevin_Herron

PM Sent.

carchaeologist

Whats the story behind the new one being written off?

Kevin_Herron

I was told the story by the guy who owns the Coupe strech here, if I remember correctly the car had some link to Buckingham palace?
And was written off only a couple of months old.

granadamad

thanks for the info and I have had one lead on a possibly car to suit me

anyone else have anything

thanks again

Dusty1609

There is one in last weeks classic car weekly for £2295 - over in the UK though.

granadamad

thanks but way to pricey,looking for one for project for winter ideally and into next year more than likely!

dubtom

There was one in chapelizord industrial in need of repaire last year. Haven't been down that way since so don't know. If you go down the entrance hill and turn left,follow the road and you'll come across it.

granadamad

cheers dubtom

i have heard about 2 coupes coming out of dublin lately, think one of them was either brown or red, could one of them be the same one you know of?

it's unlikely there have been 3 knocking about up there but i'l have someone call into the estate if I can as i'm not in Ireland myself for a few weeks

cheers

MercMad

granadamad wrote: »

cheers dubtom

i have heard about 2 coupes coming out of dublin lately, think one of them was either brown or red, could one of them be the same one you know of?

it's unlikely there have been 3 knocking about up there but i'l have someone call into the estate if I can as i'm not in Ireland myself for a few weeks

cheers

.........actually I believe there were two in Chapelizod Ind est, one was fairly mint, looked like a resto, and the other obviously a donor car. Its been about 2 years since I've been there !

G Luxel

is there a granada ghia estate mark 1? and is there a mark 2 granada coupe??
Im certain i saw a picture of both cars recently.

granadamad

G Luxel wrote: »

is there a granada ghia estate mark 1? and is there a mark 2 granada coupe??
Im certain i saw a picture of both cars recently.

yes there is mk1 estates but there were never any mk2 coupes

Gary ITR

MercMad wrote: »

.........actually I believe there were two in Chapelizod Ind est, one was fairly mint, looked like a resto, and the other obviously a donor car. Its been about 2 years since I've been there !

There's a mint one always parked outside the school in Chapelizod.. I drool over it any time I pass

Kevin_Herron

G Luxel wrote: »

is there a granada ghia estate mark 1? and is there a mark 2 granada coupe??
Im certain i saw a picture of both cars recently.

Strictly speaking there is a Mk2 Copue, as far as I know only sold in Germany!
I'm sure one or two have made their way to the U.K.

In my opinion they're not great looking!

carchaeologist

Kevin_Herron wrote: »

Strictly speaking there is a Mk2 Copue, as far as I know only sold in Germany!
I'm sure one or two have made their way to the U.K.

In my opinion they're not great looking!

Did they have "coke bottle"as they say type side rear windows?

granadamad

yea the coke bottle were the first coupes made, launched in 72 but not available in rhd and that made them only for sale in mainland europe

the 'ordinary' coupes arrived in 74

granadamad

Kevin_Herron wrote: »

Strictly speaking there is a Mk2 Copue, as far as I know only sold in Germany!
I'm sure one or two have made their way to the U.K.

In my opinion they're not great looking!

there isn't a mk2 coupe

production of coupes started in '72 and ended in '77

as said the coke bottle came first in Europe and the 'ordinary' coupe was on the market in '74

ianobrien

granadamad wrote: »

there isn't a mk2 coupe

production of coupes started in '72 and ended in '77

as said the coke bottle came first in Europe and the 'ordinary' coupe was on the market in '74

Don't forget the Mk2 Granada 2 door...

Thanks to Wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Ford_Granada_2_Tuerig_bei_Rhein.jpg

granadamad

For sure Ian but can't be classed as a coupe??
Not in my opinion anyway its a 2 door saloon
They made 2 door mk1 saloons aswell as both shapes of coupes

carchaeologist

Yeah, i would agree its just a 2 door saloon, you wouldnt class the MK2 escort 2door as a coupe now would you?:D

carchaeologist

While on the subject of granadas,spotted this nice cork city reg one at upton yesterday

And on the way out i saw a white MK1 granada saloon parked at a house near the exit,it was on an AZL plate.

granadamad

nice pre facelift example there!!Probably one of the best in the country if not the best

anyway back on topic,anyone with info on a coupe?

Kevin_Herron

Sorry about that, when I said mk2 coupe, I was referring to the 2 door.

granadamad

think I am sorted now, got talking to a mate today in England who is going to sell me 2 coupes for very cheap,only off the road a year or so, both white and very clean shells with all the parts there. Have a pic but il wait to seal the deal tomorrow hopefully and il put up the picture then.

Should be able to get the two of them back on the road which will be great. Also got info on here about one in Cork il take a look at in a few weeks.

Thanks
Enda

junkyard

There's a red one off Blarney street in Cork and a blue one in Monkstown in Cork too. I've seen the blue one, needs a lot of work and the owner thinks it's worth a mint, haven't seen the red one but I know a man who has and I can find out if tou want me to.

granadamad

junkyard wrote: »

There's a red one off Blarney street in Cork and a blue one in Monkstown in Cork too. I've seen the blue one, needs a lot of work and the owner thinks it's worth a mint, haven't seen the red one but I know a man who has and I can find out if tou want me to.

yea find out sure no harm,going to be down in Cork to look at that other red one,parked in a driveway,possibly the same one?if not i could look at the other one aswell when down that end of the country

carchaeologist

granadamad wrote: »

think I am sorted now, got talking to a mate today in England who is going to sell me 2 coupes for very cheap,only off the road a year or so, both white and very clean shells with all the parts there. Have a pic but il wait to seal the deal tomorrow hopefully and il put up the picture then.

Bring them on, you'll be saving them from the banger boys if nothing else...they go mad for the coupes.

granadamad

you wouldnt race these ones in England!! They are mint but probably am getting them at a price some people would pay to smash them up as parts alone probably get your money back on this pair you know

carchaeologist

granadamad wrote: »

you wouldnt race these ones in England!! They are mint but probably am getting them at a price some people would pay to smash them up as parts alone probably get your money back on this pair you know

The banger boys would race anything, the editor of practical classics,matt wrights mint brown granada saloon was stolen and banger raced a year or so ago,and iv seen photos on a datsun forum of a mint bluebird ss coupe that was stolen and raced too.Its all about rarity on the day,some guys have no interest in weather the car is mint or not.

carchaeologist

Here are cars which have been stolen and have ended up on Banger tracks:

1972 Plymouth Wagon:







Datsun 180 SSS coupe:







Unaccounted for, with a high chance it ended up as abanger :

Ford Granada MK1:


These are before and after pics of the same cars, not random pictures of what they might have looked like before they were raced,if you look into the raced datsun,you can see the blue paint...
And heres the link...
http://216.239.59.104/search?q=cache:GRfuDEXvxYMJ:swiftysgarage.net/ar/t575.htm+practical+classics+granada+bangers&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=9&gl=ie

maidhc

carchaeologist wrote: »

Here are cars which have been stolen and have ended up on Banger tracks:

These are before and after pics of the same cars, not random pictures of what they might have looked like before they were raced,if you look into the raced datsun,you can see the blue paint...
And heres the link...
http://216.239.59.104/search?q=cache:GRfuDEXvxYMJ:swiftysgarage.net/ar/t575.htm+practical+classics+granada+bangers&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=9&gl=ie

Who are these people? :mad:

I can understand people getting a bit of a laugh from a few Almeras and Ventos before they become tin cans anyway, but why wreck rare cars that have miraculously survived the crusher until now???!?

carchaeologist

It doesnt happen every weekend, but occasionally crops up.Its such a pity to see cars that have obviously been minded getting wrecked.

granadamad

well deal more or less done on these two in england so by thhe time they are fit for racing they will extremely rare!! here are the two i'l be bringing out of UK later this year. The guy who owned them used to banger race and loved the mark 1 granada, he seems glad that the two are going to Ireland and back on the road. He has gotten sick of having them lying in the shed! Just my luck

MercMad

They look tidy enough, well done. Looking forward to seeing some decent pictures of them when you have them sorted !

granadamad

yea,he is going to send me some decent ones when he sells the other cars infront and give me better list of whats right and wrong with them. Not to bothered judging by the look of them it wont be anything to major for us to sort.

It'l be end of July before I get them home i reckon but will start a thread here and on EFI when i start into them

carchaeologist

Nice one, good to see them going to a good home!!:D

carchaeologist

Some granada derivitives...