Thread: Name That Car

Had one of these first , mk 3 cortina 1600 gt



Jumped a railway bridge in it Dukes of Hazard stylie doing about 50 mph when it landed the back seat fell out and my younger brother ended upside down covered in Chinese food . Also it had bubble gum instead of a drain plug .

Anyway after I bent that one I got one of these , mk 1 Grenada 3.0 ghia in roman bronze lovely car all Sweeney and that .


I really liked that one , some drunk bitch put her cigarette out on my unmarked cream velour seat so I kicked her out of the car at 3 am and drove off , never saw her again .

Originally Posted by malcy

Had one of these first , mk 3 cortina 1600 gt



Jumped a railway bridge in it Dukes of Hazard stylie doing about 50 mph when it landed the back seat fell out and my younger brother ended upside down covered in Chinese food . Also it had bubble gum instead of a drain plug .

Anyway after I bent that one I got one of these , mk 1 Grenada 3.0 ghia in roman bronze lovely car all Sweeney and that .


I really liked that one , some drunk bitch put her cigarette out on my unmarked cream velour seat so I kicked her out of the car at 3 am and drove off , never saw her again .

Nice to see another Cortinaman Malcy.

I had a rather boring 1600 Ghia estate when I was a student. It did sport some rather distinguished Granada rims like the one in the picture below. I was well proud of those.



Temptation soon got the better of me and I traded it in after a few months for a Mk 5, 2 litre estate. Had the extra spotlights on the front grille which I think added a sporty, Aston Martinesque touch:



... and what I rather imagined it looked a like:



The Mk 5 was a decent motor from what I remember, although I'm now struggling to find any likeness between it and the AM V8. In my defence I was a student when I owned it and I think it'd be fair to assume that I was likely to have been very, very stoned for much of the time I owned that car.

It could perhaps have been an absolute dog?