You are a Fantasist and a BSer CF you’ve probably never had a decent set of wheels in your life and if you have well put some shots on and give us all a laugh ! You can blank your “boat” out if you don’t want to let us all see you as that sight for sore eyes would produce some uncomplimentary comments from many of the TN members I’m sure !This is a 1973 shot of the first Granada I bought well it was actually a Consul GT 3:0 litre. I did buy another 4 Granadas over next years and I have the shots to prove it !
it is. the idiots had already ripped the front grill off with the badges on. I got the engine cover both original mirrors witch are good Nik. and the drivers seat has you can see it was a bit dodgy getting to it. They have loads more coming. They just going to chop them.
If you want to call, putting almost half of my wages into the household budget and what went into the Granada was in large part for commuting to/from work and hauling household DIY that Dad’s company car was too small for , freeloading, crack on.
Also bearing in mind the old Cologne pushrod V6 and arguably the best engineered car that Ford ever made, paid for itself.
Doesn’t sound like you were on much money CF so did it improve when you were given your own two wheeled Dust cart and a new brush and shovel ? Did the cart have solid wheels or were they pneumatic ?
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Can’t get the theme tune from The Sweeney out of my head now
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Seeing as we’re on a Granada spurt here’s my tale of woe with “mine”. One of postings when I was in the Royal Navy was to the staff of the Flag Officer First Flotilla. I was a clerk in the navy (due to being colour blind they wouldn’t let me near anything else - this was in 1977 and they were spoilt for choice with recruits in those days). This was a completely new position, the idea being that I would take him to wherever he had to go in the UK (he was the senior sea going admiral in charge of about 60 ships) and when we went to sea - which we often did - I would be able to help out with office duties.
Anyway, back to the Granada. Our staff car was a Morris 1800 which I had no problem with until I had to take him up to the MOD HQ in London for some big meeting. We duly arrive and I’m there in my little Morris but every other senior officer’s car was a new Granada (3 litre S I think) so my nose is out of joint. On the way back down to Portsmouth I mentioned this to the boss and asked him if he wanted me to look into getting him one of them. No, was the reply, I like the car we’ve got, plenty of leg room in the back and I can read by morning paper (the Telegraph) without folding it. I said “ but’s a bit embarrassing turning up at these meetings in this when everyone else has these beautiful shiny Ford’s. I think we should get one”. He cut me down with “which one of us is the admiral?”. End of discussion and silence all the way back down the A3.
Now that should have been the end of the matter but I am nothing if not determined. One way or another I was getting a new car. So, a couple of days later, I went up to the transport section and told them that “the admiral wants a new car, he’s embarrassed with this thing”. They told me that I couldn’t just turn up demanding a new car, that’s not how it works. Well, you tell the admiral that because I certainly ain’t. I left, disgruntled.
3 weeks later I get a call from them at our office in the dockyard. That’s your car arrived. Okay, wasn’t expecting that so next plan of action is to tell the admiral what’s happening - but how do I explain it? A cunning plan came into my head. I told him that we were getting a new car because ours was life expired. This worked okay until I told him that we were getting, you’ve guessed it, a new Granada. He went off on one. You tell the transport people that we don’t want a new car and they’re not getting this one back, he barked.
I go back to the transport guys and tell them that the admiral had changed his mind, he doesn’t want a new car now. Oh no, that’s not how it works, you wanted a new car, we got you a new car, now get the old one back to us. Leave it with me I said, giving me some time to work on the boss. But to no avail. For the next 4 weeks I got harangued each day about getting the cars changed over and I thought that I’d just have to come clean, tell the admiral what I’d done, and beg for forgiveness knowing full well that he would go off in a rant about wasting money etc, etc.
Well, all’s well that ends well. I get a call from the transport section asking if I still didn’t want the car. It turned out that one of the other senior officer’s had been involved in a serious crash and his car had been written off. If it was okay with me they would give this car to him. I grudgingly agreed, wiped the sweat off my brow and nobody on the staff were any the wiser.
I’m sure you’ll have it sussed, before you get out of the yard.
But if I get it out of the yard, will I find the village I’m looking for?
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Do you everthink about these imaginings, before spewing them out?
Is it any wonder you failed at everything you tried, spending your life in a daydream.?
Bewick’s interpretation is far closer to the truth.
Said it before…say it again.
Not a lot of love ‘‘in the room’’ on here for old CF.
@robroy I can get on with, even respect people whose opinions and values differ from my own, but I do take offence when fantacists think I’m going to believe their be ess.
Yeah ok…I just think old CF is harmless that’'s all mate…there are deffo worse people on here than CF,
He’s a bit like ‘Ebeneezer Goode’’ …
‘‘Much maligned and misunderstood’’ 
I’m just pleased I aint involved in any of this particular example of TN controversy…
It makes a change anyway…I’m usually in the thick of it any other time.
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There are many of you on here guilty of keyboard bullying of CF ..
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His posts are mainly disruptive and verging on trolling.
Ye sow, so you will reap.
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Hiya mate…
To put my 2p worth in…
I wouldn’t say it’s ‘‘bullying’’ tbf (and I’ve always thought that word has been diluted by over use anyway…a bit like racist)
It’s more that old CF seems to have a knack and a talent for pi55ing people off,on here (a bit like I have myself…it seems )
I’ve had the odd ruck with him on here, but as I said on the whole I think he’s harmless…and never seems to take offence which is a quality I reckon.
There are a few annoying ■■■■ s on here (Hello 
) the odd d.head, even the odd a.hole, but I don’t think old CF is any of them.
But there ya go.
He’s insulting everyone’s intelligence, expecting us to believe his crap.
What you reap is what you sow, is so apt.
Years ago, when I first joined this forum, he was talking about importing and converting to RHD an American muscle car. I suggested looking at Australian cars to save the cost and drama of conversion. To that end, I went to some effort to show what was available. What a waste of time, it was all just a fantasy. He still only has a derelict wreck that has been deteriorating for years because he lacks the ability and gumption to effect a simple repair.
I know all about your ‘disbelief’ always goes along the same lines give you proof then you don’t believe the proof, prove the proof, etc etc.I was replying to Bewick anyway not you.
To be fair Bewick I only started driving in 1977.At that time I had a Triumph 2.5Pi very similar to your Essex V6 in terms of go but slightly less good in the corners with the McPherson front end.No bad thing while learning the trade. But while you seem to have gone backwards with 4 pot diesel MK2’s including lumbering your fleet engineer with one I went on to the 3.0 litre BMW E3 and 2.8i MK2 for a local runabout .Eventually ending up with twice as many cylinders and twice as much capacity and more than twice as much power than your MK1 Essex 3 litre.
Obviously even class 2 council money was enough to afford to buy and run a Mk2 2.8i with enough left to pay a fair share of the mortgage.Probably cheaper to maintain than the 4 pot smoking rattler and nicer to drive.