Wanted Ford Granadas mk1/mk2 any condition !!

Are they to restore.......

Well if you like that car and you know its going to be ripped apart then smashed up then , yes it would matter .


Still can never understand banger guys ' loving ' Granadas and cortinas , ......... so they keep buying the few remaining and smashing them to bits !!!??


No matter how i think about it i come to the conclusion that involves trucker caps , banjos and sisters .

Did see say stuff about boxes of chocolates as well ?

obviously never taken part in the sport then?? never personally raced a granny but they are (were) just about the prize pick for the job. killed a few cortinas in my time on the grass , amongst others but could never quite condone some of the real classics that the hard core tarmac boys took delight in obliterating in half a lap. mind you when I was racing , granadas and cortinas were firmly in the "banger" category on the road and usually picked up for taking them away , if you paid for a car it had better be a good one!!!!

if I was selling a tidy car now I certainly wouldn't want it raced , may have been a banger racer but I do have principles. (no trucker cap worn , banjo played or sisters f....d!!!)

I like to see restored Granada’s that’s why I asked
Don’t see many now

Article in this months PC magazine about 100 being smashed up at a recent banger meet and another is happening soon . Apparently they will pay up to 2k for cars to smash up .... cars that they love ....


Wierd .

I've certainly started something off here. I'm advertising as I break them to keep others alive and unfortunatly if they are to bad to restore they go for either racing or scrap once completely stripped of anything useful but no solid cars are raced only ones which have no other option.

my complete interior,window chrome,headlight wiring and two spare front wings were bought from a banger racer for very little. the cars they came off were beyond the normal repairable state that most would tackle,i know because I took the parts off them and have painstakingly rebuilt my own Granada.my local racer guy has given me parts for free in the past to help me keep mine on the road. he also has a mint saloon that he cherishes too. I don't like to see them raced, but if a car that's not likely to be repaired by anyone can be raced ,while all the parts I need are being sold for peanuts,i've gotta say.................let it happen.in all honesty, the parts that aren't needed to race are the parts granada owners need.cars being stolen is one thing ,but when people buy up cars that no one can be bothered to repair and sell the surplus parts off to enthusiasts to keep the cars on the road,thats another thing.i own a Granada myself and have done for 24+ years,ive seen both sides of the story.parts for these cars are getting rare and my main source for things I need to keep mine on the road is my local racer.hes moving away now, but if I ever needed a part,he let me look at whatever cars he had and pick the best bits off them.thats not a bad thing and doesn't make him a bad person.
around the early 2000's, I offered my car to banger racers for free ,it was rotting in a garage so thought it should go out with a fight.......turns out they didn't want it as it was a 2.3. the work involved in restoring some old cars is just crazy.when they are new we cant afford them,then they get old and no one wants them.....20 years later the survivors eventually become "cool" and everyone screams "save them all". what people should do is buy them when they aren't popular and affordable instead of waiting for the scene to make them desirable. old cars,retro cars,classics etc are the way forward and people should be snapping them up while they can.