Practically Classics Forum

Love this thread

Every one is entitled to their opinion, and no the escort will never see the road. Dan...who you want seen dead in a crash in Malmesbury has built it for drift racing...its being feautured in retro ford, and im sure he would be dissapointed that simeone out there hopes he crashes and writes it off.

As to structual integrity. ..well who knows till it crashes.....but I can guarantee it would be no worse than a standard granada in a crash, and wouldn't fall in twain.

The only difference between an iva and and mot should be pen pushing. A real mot tester takes an hour....when have you been for an mot and they take a full hour? Last mot on the granada took them 20 mins all in, as once he checked the lights tyres, swivels, and general rust...he was done in 25 mins.

My mot guy is happy to pass anything.......but he will be dam sure its road worthy....in an mot situation.

Ill have to say just one more thing.....apart from the wholly inadequate death trap original windows, the uber dangerous lack of side repeaters, the dangerous lack of locking fuel cap with the same key as the ignition, the murderously sharp pedestrian killing leading edge of the bonnet and the intestinal debowlers that are the wipers......its built to pass an IVA.

So if I put this in for an IVA its going to fail on the above issues.....but only those.....so Pilkie....would you consider the above points death trap material?

If so I hope you never come in contact with a leathal genuine mk1 granada

A posts taking a little longer than i'd hoped....but nearly have one done, bit of luck have em both finished tomorrow

bit of a cat issue in the garage, so now the interior is in and its been for a successful test drive down the street, I have made it cat proof for now

I always used to find the neighbours cat asleep on the drivers seat of my mini roadster. I had to keep a lint roller in the back of the seat to remove stray hairs before I drove off!
It looks like you are making good progress Are you keeping the BMW loom so you get things like the lamp out warnings?

i was working on a mk4/5 cortina & our cat went missing once i found him in the boot & the other time curled up in my tool cabinet, after that he took to sleeping on my brothers shiny gt6

When the series was in bits and the floor panels out, it became the favoured spot for next door's moggy.
One time the neighbour was panicking, I just opened the driver's door to be greeted with a cat wearing the expression of "Wot?"

Boy was it peed off when the floor went back in

Well that Granada looks exactly like a stock example apart from the wheels so I'm guessing that's mission accomplished.
Does anyone remember the Volvo 164 that appeared in Practical Classics some years ago whose original floorpans, inner sills, bulkheads and pretty much everything else was merged seamlessly with a Vauxhall (PA) Cresta outer bodyshell? That was my favourite example of the "Frankencar" concept until now, it should have been a good car though, discs all round, Volvo B30 IL6 where once was a GM IL6 with around half the power, lovely idea but this Granada should be an even better one, IMHO.

I dunno, a Ferrari 2CV could be the one to try next or Fiat 500 Veyron

TerryG wrote:I dunno, a Ferrari 2CV could be the one to try next or Fiat 500 Veyron

Extreme. How about this: