Granada Mk1 Coupe

carchaeologist · 16-03-2014 6:44pm #1

Legend has it that there were just 12 of these sold new in Ireland, can anyone verify this or have details of the 12 sold?

carchaeologist · 16-03-2014 6:46pm

XID352 was one of these, and is still in existence.

sogood · 16-03-2014 9:13pm

I posted a pic of one of these, spotted on Nassau Street, about two years ago. It's somewhere in the "Today I saw a Classic" thread.

mk1 gran · 17-03-2014 12:20am

Meant to be around 15. I have an irish one just under restoration at moment. Am trying to find out if the rest survive and some were last heard of in cork somewhere.

jetfiremuck · 17-03-2014 3:04pm

Arizona bronze was my fav colour. Love the styling and the 3.0 essex at 3k rpm

mk1 gran · 17-03-2014 3:30pm

My one is arizona bronze

The Red Ace · 17-03-2014 11:45pm

Drove a bronze one from Manchester to the West a few years ago it didn't miss a beat, it did a few days later when it burst a water hose half mile from home. Nice cars with plenty grunt, had a gxl 3.0 back in the 80s still have the gas conversion off it.

jetfiremuck · 19-03-2014 1:18am

My one is wfi 1974 i think. There were two in Limerick a plum and silver wti and vti were the regs if I remember. Saw them in a shed some years ago, stripped for restoration. Another was there that some one tried to set fire to. Burnt the interior somewhat. This was some years ago.

mk1 gran · 19-03-2014 8:47am

My one is pri reg. A friend drop in picture to me of few the irish coupe from years ago when he had em. Wzf one of them

MercMad · 24-03-2014 5:38pm

A friend of mine had one two about 10 years ago. Nearly sure it was bronze but dont recall the reg. I have seen a "modified" bright orange one around and another yellow one with black Cobra stripes. Also saw two in Newmarket square about 10 years ago, they both looked mid/part/failed resto cars.

mk1 gran · 24-03-2014 8:42pm

Bright orange one scrap now as I got bits off it. Yellow one a UK car and for sale on done deal at the minute. Most da cork reg coupe were same colour as mine.

Kevin_Herron · 25-03-2014 9:36am

The modified bright orange car that is now scrapped was an original Irish car.

I was told that alot of them were Cork registered by a Ford dealer, possibly CAB as demonstrators so they would get a reg bonus from Ford.

The chap in Newbridge that owned the one used in Ballykissangel had five of the Irish cars and was able to account for ten of them.

SeanSouth · 25-03-2014 12:18pm

The Managing Director of Ford in Cork (Mr Paddy Hayes) had one at the time. Bronze with the black roof. If I'm not mistaken the reg was TZF XXX

MercMad · 25-03-2014 2:15pm

Kevin_Herron wrote: »

The modified bright orange car that is now scrapped was an original Irish car.

I was told that alot of them were Cork registered by a Ford dealer, possibly CAB as demonstrators so they would get a reg bonus from Ford.

The chap in Newbridge that owned the one used in Ballykissangel had five of the Irish cars and was able to account for ten of them.

.........was this a bronze one too previously ? Anyone know why it was scrapped ?

mk1 gran · 25-03-2014 2:33pm

Think it either white or green because that what colour inside of doors I got were. The car was rotten and it looked awful. My coupe is a arizona bronze and the other 3 cork reg coupe are same colour.

mb1725 · 02-04-2014 11:33pm

XZF 63 was a metallic blue (Sapphire Blue?) Mk 1 coupe that the MD of CAB in Cork drove for a few years.

mk1 gran · 03-04-2014 8:29am

I have a picture of XZF xxx in arizona bronze

mb1725 · 03-04-2014 12:41pm

If these posts are accurate we are up to 8:

XID 352
WFI***
WTI***
VTI***
***PRI
WZF***
TZF***
XZF63

Surely there were more Dublin reg'd ones.

mk1 gran · 03-04-2014 12:49pm

ZIE
UZF
CIK
are the other. Dunno what da rest are.

John Larkin · 03-04-2014 12:58pm

mb1725 wrote: »

If these posts are accurate we are up to 8:

XID 352
WFI***
WTI***
VTI***
***PRI
WZF***
TZF***
XZF63

Surely there were more Dublin reg'd ones.

I believe that I saw *** PRI on display in one of the windows of Brown Thomas in Grafton Street in the summer of 1975. (BT was then located on the opposite side of the street --- where M&S is now.) I think it was metallic blue.

mk1 gran · 03-04-2014 1:40pm

810 PRI is arizona bronze and I know that because it in my shed awaiting restoration

jetfiremuck · 03-04-2014 8:47pm

Probably a good idea to post photos of any of the coupes so that when searched can be found together.

jetfiremuck · 03-04-2014 8:53pm

Kevin_Herron wrote: »

The modified bright orange car that is now scrapped was an original Irish car.

I was told that alot of them were Cork registered by a Ford dealer, possibly CAB as demonstrators so they would get a reg bonus from Ford.

The chap in Newbridge that owned the one used in Ballykissangel had five of the Irish cars and was able to account for ten of them.

I saw those granadas there. I bought one, others were sold before I got there. Think there was 4 in total. The limerick cars were there of I remember.

mk1 gran · 03-04-2014 11:41pm

11wingnut · 05-04-2014 12:09am

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Mark-one-Ford-Granada-Ghia-3-0-coupe-very-rare-Very-good-condition-MOT-tax-/371035187862?pt=Automobiles_UK&hash=item56

I forget how to load from ebay.

11wingnut · 12-04-2014 6:51pm

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1974-MK1-Granada-Coupe-/231198058998?pt=Automobiles_UK&hash=item35d47a69f6

red sean · 13-04-2014 11:54pm

There was one (White) in Sligo back in the day, may have been REI 777 I think!!!
It belonged to a Mrs Russell whose family owned John Gilbride & Co., then the main Ford dealer.

shineon23 · 16-04-2014 12:30am

http://cars.donedeal.ie/vintagecars-for-sale/ford-granada-coupe/6788010

carchaeologist · 16-04-2014 4:24pm

shineon23 wrote: »

http://cars.donedeal.ie/vintagecars-for-sale/ford-granada-coupe/6788010

That car isn't great.

ianobrien · 16-04-2014 9:48pm

shineon23 wrote: »

http://cars.donedeal.ie/vintagecars-for-sale/ford-granada-coupe/6788010

A buddy of mine used to own that. He got rid of it after loosing interest when the oil pump drive failed at half two in the morning. It spread bits of it's conrods all over the roads. Structurally it was OK but cosmetically not top-notch.

It was a very, very comfy car for a long journey and I know that the next owner got it "professionally" restored.

mk1 gran · 16-04-2014 9:56pm

I look at that car last summer while I was picking up another granada of him. I sold him an engine and box 4 it if he did put it in or not I don't know. she seem solid enough and be nice car if finish right.

Granada Mk1 Coupe

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