“None worth saving. I want them all.” This is a channel about my car collection and appreciating the unappreciated. In this world where everyone loves the ‘65 Mustang, the ‘69 Camaro and all things Corvette, let’s show some affection for the cars that go far too unloved.
It’s his car he says. He then goes on to say the motor is 302. And then calls the package a dark night. Something tells me that’s not really his car.😂 Great looking car nonetheless the less.
What can I say, I was nervous and panicked. 😂. It’s definitely my car. Check out the early Fleet Check, Part 2 video and you will see it in my building. Thanks for the comment!
My first car was a baby blue stick shift, 4 banger BOBCAT with no air and no radio. I wanted a 69 Camaro. But my dad said he wasn’t co-signing for a death machine. Man I hated that car!
My teacher had a Granada Ghia 2.8 Estate in pale Metallic blue, I though it was really cool and it sounded meaty as it pulled away, nice cars in the 80s now Fords are just crap with tiny plastic engines with little tin can Turbos bolted on that break.
My father and I were walking the dog through the local Ford lot when we noticed an interesting Pinto wagon,upscale model with the ersatz wood applique but when we looked at the front it had a Bobcat grille. It had the Pinto name plates on the tailgate, but definitely had the Mercury version for the front.
Would you mind listing the specs of your wheels? I’ve got a ‘12 Boss 302 and looking at swapping out the wheels. I really like the LS OEM wheels. Beautiful car.
@@unlovedautos Banger racing is taking old cars and racing them around a track smashing in to other cars. quite a number of old car have met this fate. a great example of this is my 1982 Toyota Cressida Estate (Called a wagon in America) mine being the last Estate left on the road in the UK. Quite a number of cressidas were banger raced about 15 to 20 years ago. Seen quite a few pictures of them being smash up.
Very similar to the Australian Ford Falcon XD. Google it 👍 The Australian version was completely different inside and had the option of a 3.3 or 4.1 pushrod straight 6 or a 4.9 and 5.8 Cleveland V8. Not the best built cars here. Rather nasty actually.
We should have had these Granada's in America instead of the garbage that was the Granada here. Perfect example of what was wrong with the American car industry.
@Englishsea24 they were an entirely different car, but called a Granada. They were basically the exact chassis of a 1960 Falcon with a body to look like a bargain store Mercedes. Totally archaic engineering. They were never police cars. They could hardly get out of their own way and handled like an ox cart on ice.
The Granada mk2 2.8 1980 was our family car from 1987 to 1992. It cost my dad £3000 in 1987, and it was considered quite luxurious compared to some of the other cars sat on my street. It was actually a rather comfy and spacious car
@unlovedautos It was metallic gold on the outside with sunroof and brown cloth seats. It had a walnut style dashboard with analogue clock and all the essential instruments and a cassette player fitted as standard. It was comfy with a lot of space, and perfect for long journeys. Me my brother, sister and two cousins (all very young of course) would all fit in the back on holiday trips to the coast. The V6 engine had no trouble towing caravans either. It was a very good car for its time. It would make a perfect classic collectors car, but I doubt very much if it exists anymore. According to the car registry website it doesn't anyway shame really😊
Not if you know what the lights were used for. As well as the factory headlamps, the top 2 in front of the grill are spot lamps, the 2 beneath the bumper are fog lamps. This is also how I had them fitted to my mk3 Ford Escort, as it's a good idea to have decent lights in the UK on our twisty country lanes, especially so going to work long before the sun gets up, hitting a deer that wasn't spotted in time can seriously wreck a car!!
I'd say the ones in front of the grill are just an extra set of long beams, they usually switch on automatically with the factory long beam headlights (unless wired to a different switch), the ones underneath the bumper look like fog lights indeed but at that time they used to be yellow on every car. And the lights on top, thats the ones you use to look on the sides to spot a deer while in town or through bushes on your twisty country lanes. I guess, thats what they are supposed to be but i cant see any turning mechanisms below them so they are just another set of extra long beams on the roof.
@@grenzhochspannungshindernis What you call long beams are what we in the UK would call spot lamps. The ones in front of the grill were factory fitted to upmarket and also the sportier versions of Fords in the 70's and 80's, not just police cars.Which were permanently fixed in the straight ahead position. Fog lamps, or any light for that matter on British registrated cars were not yellow from the factory. The only reason anyone's car over here had yellow lights would've been because they'd been across the channel to France, as any that did coloured their lights with a headlamp paint pen from a car spares shop. (the brillianty knowledgeable independent shops themselves are rare now, thanks to the complexities of modern cars, plus major chains like Halfords and also the internet)
@@michaeledwards427 the more I read your comments, the more I get confused. Long beams are the ones to brighten road ahead of you and the spot lights(DRLs and foggies) are used to just be seen from far and the yellower the foggies the better you are seen in white fog(blizzard or heavy rain). It's also confusing that factories were installing third party (Hella?) lights on their cars. Probably you meant to say official ford dealers, not actual factories? Also the yellow paint (pen?) on the lights... I always thought it was just a yellow film wrapped around lenses of the head or underneath the bumper lights...
@@grenzhochspannungshindernis I can honestly say I've never heard of any light called long beams here in UK before your comment. As any light back in the day or currently have always been dipped/main beam on the headlights, spot or fog lamps. So many upmarket and sporty Fords in Europe were fitted with the same spot lamps, mk1/mk2/3 fiesta, ( Fiesta XR2 and Escort XR3 for instance) escort mk2 plus further marks as well mk1 and 2 Granada's that they would only have been fitted at the factory, plus don't forget it's cheaper for manufacturers to outsource manufacturing of some parts, even if their factory fitted. When my employer brought new trucks it was common that one part already fitted from new was made by Rubbolite. I remember the garage boss was angry over the price of a rubbolite made spare part that was supplied by ford, in a ford motorcraft box that came out of the main Ford parts centre at Daventry (I even went there a few times for an urgently needed part) but he was annoyed because he could order the EXACT same part in a rubbolite box from a motor factor much more cheaply, which he certainly did!! On the yellow head lamp tint, yes the film was available but so were the colouring pens. I have never yellowed any light on any car I've ever owned in 37 years of driving and car ownership or have I ever had any reason to, also I can't remember the last time I saw any British car with any yellow lights on it. Yellowing of lights must've gone out of fashion in other parts of Europe as the multitude of foreign vehicles that we see on UK roads 99% now have all white lights on the front but ones with yellow lights really do stand out. Additionally some bikers have taken to tinting their headlamps red (far more common to see on bikes than yellow) to stand out from the crowd as a survival strategy, although I fully understand why but its illegal to have any red light facing forward or white light facing rearwards on British roads.
Love it! Would you be able to do a full video of the Stirling Tri-Sound siren at some point? I believe they were very similar to what the Metropolitan Police in London were using at that time.
These were traffic cars made for the motorway network. I have family in Essex and i got pulled over quite a lot as a young man so its possible this car pulled me over at some point lol ive owned a few granny's over the years from a mrk 1....3 litre counsel too the mrk 3 28i ghia x these where fantastic cars reliable they looked good. nice too drive good memories.
I like how folks are calling them Grannys. There was a Ford Granada in the U.S. in the late '70s and early '80s, but it was an entirely different car. I have never heard anyone here call them Grannys but now I wish that I had.
In South Africa the mk1 granada was avaliable with a 302 V8 on special order a guy called Basil Green ran a tuning company that did the conversion and it came with a factory ford warranty. They also did a V8 conversion with the mk1 ford Capri
UK market cars still come with 'miles' speedos and odometers. We don't do kilometers, but we do litres and still drive on the correct side of the road and pay for things in pounds (£) not Euros. Logical. Petrol is currently about £1.40 a litre, roughly 5 of them to a gallon so I guess our masters don't want a revolt when people multiply and get 7 quid a gallon. Road signs are miles, too. Ford Granadas went quite well and the V6 Essex engine in the Mk1s and 2s was tough, reliable (so was the manual gearbox) and could be made decently quick. They used it in army bomb disposal transit vans which were governed for 120mph at peak revs in top gear. But the squaddies used to diddle with the governors so they would rev out to get more speed... Yes, the 'Tranny' was a large van. Exciting, but they used to get over-revved. Mk1 Grannies were a much nicer, more-rounded shape especially the now vanishingly rare fastback/coupe version. All Grannies are now rare, mainly because they were beloved of banger racers, being quick with tough motors. The bodies did get crispy after a few wet, salt-sprayed UK winters but then so did all Fords of the period, not least the smaller Escort, known as the Escrot and 'sporty' Capri, known as the Crappy. At least Fords were tough, compared to Leyland stuff which was just poo and not worth nick-naming. Unless you count the Austin Princess, which was called the 'Wedge' because.....
Sweet Granada. With genuine police provenance.. 'twould be worth a few pounds over here. You could also get a wagon (estate) version. With the 2.8 injection they went very well indeed. 3 speed auto is a little unusual for a police car, but probably it was a motorway car
beautiful car. you should take the strobes and LED's off the grille and just have the halogen's in there, keep it all original - halogens and rotators.
@@edensker It's a strange mixture. When we were part of the European Union the weights and measures changed to metric by law but never the road distances or speed measurement, always miles and mph like the US. Now we have left the European Union there is some use of Imperial weights and measures again but they are mainly metric as so many people have grown up using metric now.
I remember seeing them as a child. We use to call them the jam sandwich. (White with a red stripe). That type of car would have spent most of it's life going up and down the motorways chasing car's like the XR3i Also at that time police car's was stripped of the luxuries, such as electrical windows and air con which would have been standard on this model. Also check out the car that replaced this. Vauxhall Senator 3.0i 24v. That car put the fear of god in you if you was unlucky enough to have that behind you
The Vauxhall Senator 3.0i 24v was a proper 150mph motorway muncher. Seeing that front grill in your rear view mirror you knew the game was up for most people
I remember this car, cause we've had them in Holland to. But also in Holland they called Granada. They are bigger then the Ford Taunus, wich we've also had.
Nice car, but I don't think the police would have an automatic gearbox in one of their vehicles and the siren didnt sound like the ones I remember. but still a nice car
Of course they used autos! Especially in large vehicles with large capacity engines (large to the UK/Europe) The UK Police used auto Rover SD1 V8s, auto Granadas, Auto Scorpios (the 24v was ONLY auto!) Auto Carltons and Senators! Obviously latterly they used auto Jeep Cherokees, BMWs, Jaguars etc.
@@davekennedy6315Its just when I worked at a police workshop back in the late 80'S we NEVER saw an automatic, whether it was a Ford Granada or an awful Rover SD1
I thought I'd look at '84, '85 '86 Ford Granada 2.8 V6 instrument panels, because the speedo is indeed different....every other one is in 5 mph increments....this one is in 2mph increments, so I think this would indeed be the calibrated speedo !!
