Jag! The Ghostly fleet thread

Junkman · Post by **Junkman** » Mon Aug 19, 2019 9:58 am

We are. You aren't.

Junkman · Post by **Junkman** » Mon Aug 19, 2019 10:03 am

ghosty wrote: ↑Mon Aug 19, 2019 9:26 am
Junkman wrote: ↑Mon Aug 19, 2019 8:55 am Why are you looking at Granada Ghia estates then?
More prevalent and nicer styling IMO.

My opinion, if it counts for anything, is that MKII Granadas were a thing until they began to disappear from the ovals about ten years ago. Since then all they have attracted is wear, tear and an insane amount of scene tax.
Add very indifferent spares availability to that.

John F · Post by **John F** » Mon Aug 19, 2019 11:56 am

Junkman wrote: ↑Sun Aug 18, 2019 3:15 pm Who cares what the automotive industry does in ten years from now?
I already ceased to give a shit about it in 1987.

Many people, and...

... WE KNOW. Possibly the entire Internet knows.

fried onions · Post by **fried onions** » Mon Aug 19, 2019 1:33 pm

I didn't care what the automotive industry was doing 20 years ago. It will hopefully die off completely and I'm amazed it's lumbered on for so long.

My thoughts on the Ford Granada echo Junkman's. They are nothing special, but made a nice cheap quality car to run about in. Note the past tense, that boat has sailed. The current incumbents are probably the Scorpio, newer shape Granada and Vauxhall equivalents.

I may be talking rot here but I would imagine a 1980's Ford is more maintenance intensive than other makes of car.

Leave the Grandads to those guys who've owned them from new, and Triple Rich.

Junkman · Post by **Junkman** » Mon Aug 19, 2019 1:52 pm

The problem with the newer Scorpios and Vauxhall equivalents is that none of them have survived the scrappage scheme.

John F · Post by **John F** » Mon Aug 19, 2019 1:56 pm

No, the problem with Scorchios is that they were UGLY.

Junkman · Post by **Junkman** » Mon Aug 19, 2019 1:58 pm

It doesn't matter.

John F · Post by **John F** » Mon Aug 19, 2019 1:59 pm

Oh but it does.

Junkman · Post by **Junkman** » Mon Aug 19, 2019 2:15 pm

When exactly has this become an issue all of a sudden?

Conrad D. Conelrad · Post by **Conrad D. Conelrad** » Mon Aug 19, 2019 2:17 pm

fried onions wrote: ↑Mon Aug 19, 2019 1:33 pm I didn't care what the automotive industry was doing 20 years ago. It will hopefully die off completely and I'm amazed it's lumbered on for so long.

My thoughts on the Ford Granada echo Junkman's. They are nothing special, but made a nice cheap quality car to run about in. Note the past tense, that boat has sailed. The current incumbents are probably the Scorpio, newer shape Granada and Vauxhall equivalents.

I may be talking rot here but I would imagine a 1980's Ford is more maintenance intensive than other makes of car.

Leave the Grandads to those guys who've owned them from new, and Triple Rich.

Even Scorpios are ancient history. This is the current cheap old Granada:

It's longer and wider than the Granada. It's a Ghia X with everything, it's an auto, it's £745.

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