1972 Ford Granada coupe continuous build/improvement.

Well I don't know about the stunning, really. But it's a good looker for sure...

And I coulnd't really keep away now could I , if I wanted to have any chance of following all those Jowett builds that have tought me so much already! Wouldn't want to mis out. In all honesty, things just didn't feel the same anymore....not quite sure yet if I'm going to be doing something about that really. It's years invested in that thread... But it's just not the same for me anymore...

Hopefully this place will feel right soon...built from the ashes one could say so it should be good!

Alex the new forum is steep learning curve for the team - but stick with us - quite a few improvements planned and of course its also about the members that contribute to it in the first place - jointly we will make it something great 

Stunning car, also amazed at the ease of being LHD or RHD, damned handy design.

I don't really think it is so much that Ford made two types of coupe's... I may be wrong here but I believe it was more a case of the UK getting the coupe years later compared to mainland Europe. And by that time it was sort of a facelift of the original model. I believe the thinking was the straighter lines would appeal to a wider audience and be perceived as slightly more modern.

Europe got the Granada coupe from the start in 1972 along with the saloon and the estate. Mine is from september or november 1972 if memory serves. We also had the two door sedan from 1973 onwards. In the UK the coupe and 2 door saloon weren't sold in 1972-1973. From 1974 on the UK also got the coupe in the then revised straight hipped version. The two door saloon was never made available. The UK also knew the coupe in one main spec, the luxurious Ghia model (of which I liked and "stole" the grille in my rendering of what a coupe should be, although I'm also partial to the Consul wide mouth grille). In Europe it was avalable as GL and other forms.

The double name thing, consul and granada has to do with a law suit in the UK over the Granada name. Hence lower spec models were called consul and later the Granada name was applied to the full range.

In a nutshell of course, there's plenty more to the story...

It's nice to see you using you car at last Alex and so good it looks as well.

Thank you for choosing to join us in the happy place , the whole is only as good as the componants...a bit like your stunning coupè. Welcome along for the ride.

We all need a happy place....

Thankfully I've got a few!




(home, garage, garden, car, this forum...)

Looks lovely in the sun eurogranada 

And not all that low with the angle of the front lower arms 

Is your exhaust system a 3 box system? 2 centre boxes and the single rear box, with a pipe over the subframe each side?

Not only is the Granada fantastic but the owner is a handsome devil too.