Local Car Show with a Granada!

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I don't display in many car shows, but I was asked to show my Tr6 at the local Town festival. Here she is next to my good friend's Boxster S, a twin of ours.

I do enjoy small get togethers like this as they usually bring out an interesting mix. This one did not disappoint with a JDM Nissan Figaro, Allante, several original and restomod Broncos, and, most impressively, an absolutely mint, original survivor Grenada in cream over tan vinyl! When was the last time anyone saw one?

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It's cool to see and I can get a little bit nostalgiac, but I did spend some time behind the wheel in one of these in the eighties, and they drove like caca. Plus, more than a little hard to start at times. No offense intended, and this vehicle is pretty clean!
 
TomYoung said:
It's cool to see and I can get a little bit nostalgiac, but I did spend some time behind the wheel in one of these in the eighties, and they drove like caca. Plus, more than a little hard to start at times. No offense intended, and this vehicle is pretty clean!
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Oh no denying they were dreadful, as were many vehicles and most domestics at the time, but yes very cool as a time warping survivor of a another era. Drove from Mass to a spring break in Daytona Beach in a friend's family's one in '87 or so...no A/C, full of knuckleheads, but got us there.
 
My roommate in college has a Grenada with a manual transmission. Shifter banged into the bench seat if you had the seat up too far.
 
My H.S. friend's father had one. Recall it was a 302 V8. Was dying around corners. Took the top off the carb lid, found hardware in the float bowl! Factory option.
Quiet smooth car like a mini Ford Elite Iacocca mobile. trying to recall if these were full frame or subframe+unitbody. Thinking good drag car with a 429 and a blower.
 
I had a Mercury Monarch also. It was the sporty version with nice wheels and a landau vinyl roof. Two tone yellow with a gold underside. It was beautiful. Very reliable and pleasant to drive. I wish I had kept it.
 
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My Uncle bought a Granada in the second year of production. He was so proud of it as it was his first new car. While inspecting it we found that they driver's side fender had the correct Granada emblem and the passenger side fender had a "Monarch" emblem. I guess someone on the assembly line was only going through the motions that day.
 
-- A Granada/ Monarch was in the first two seconds of the opening titles of "Cheers", clattering through Boston, passing the Bull & Finch pub.

-- Even the SUVs are tiny. I didn't notice when parking lot spacing got embiggened.

-- These mixed car shows are the best. I hate the ones where you get some guy with a two year old Plum Crazy Purple Challenger Scat Pack Six Pack just there to brag that he financed something he can barely afford.

-- The Neeeeeeeewwwwwwwww Allante!
 
I had a 1978 Granada with a 302/C4 in it. For it's day, it was "OK" ... but nothing stellar. I find the 2Dr coupes not unpleasant to look at.

The guys on Engine Power did a nice build up of a Granada with a 302 and got some insane power out of it and made it into a drag car.

Though extremely rare, they did make some Granda's with 302 and a 4 SPD.
 
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