Bewick:
Carryfast:
DEANB:
Caswell F88.I see Ford Capris are making serious money now.
carandclassic.co.uk/car/C999461
It makes no sense when the Granada handles better and will happily take 302
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Hi Bewick,I wanted one of those as a youngster after seeing it in the Sweeney ,but ended up with my old mans marina 
,them granadas looked the biz cheers John
Not too many of those Granadas left, my late nephew and his mates were responsible for the loss of a good few. Their favourite steed for bangering. I used to mechanic for him, couldnât do any more with this one!
Bernard
smallcoal:
Bewick:
Carryfast:
DEANB:
Caswell F88.I see Ford Capris are making serious money now.
carandclassic.co.uk/car/C999461
It makes no sense when the Granada handles better and will happily take 302
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Hi Bewick,I wanted one of those as a youngster after seeing it in the Sweeney ,but ended up with my old mans marina
Donât want to be a smart arse here 
, but (as far as I know) The Sweeney car was a 3 litre Ford Consul.
Indeed it was. Those were the daysâŚ
albion1938:
Not too many of those Granadas left, my late nephew and his mates were responsible for the loss of a good few. Their favourite steed for bangering. I used to mechanic for him, couldnât do any more with this one!
It was fair enough when they only used gone too far MOT failures.But it all got a bit silly when they started on good solid cars that the owners just couldnât be bothered to maintain any longer.Sadly it caused the needless loss of the pool of some of our best quality car history in everything from not just the Granada but also Zodiac and Vauxhall Cresta/Ventora and big Triumphs to the old school BMCâs like Westminster/6110.Ironically their battleship build quality being what attracted the banger racing crowd. 
While values of the survivors of all those have gone through the roof as a result. 
robroy:
Donât want to be a smart arse here
That was because they used an M reg when the old Consul name was used to denote the manual 3.0 version and/or trim spec but still used together with the Granada name.While if it had been a new one in the late 70âs by then the Sweeney spec version had changed to the 3000 S. 
Carryfast:
robroy:
Donât want to be a smart arse hereThat was because they used an M reg when the old Consul name was used to denote the manual 3.0 version and/or trim spec but still used together with the Granada name.While if it had been a new one in the late 70âs by then the Sweeney spec version had changed to the 3000 S.
Talking about depletion of the historic vehicle stock, that crowd accounted for more than their share of '60s Jags. In a 1990s (I think) interview, John Thaw said the Sweeney used to wreck far better cars than the old nail he had to drive in Inspector Morse.
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anorak:
Talking about depletion of the historic vehicle stock, that crowd accounted for more than their share of '60s Jags. In a 1990s (I think) interview, John Thaw said the Sweeney used to wreck far better cars than the old nail he had to drive in Inspector Morse.
The perfect storm of the XJ having decimated values of the previous saloon types and film directors looking for a cheap stereotypical blaggersâ motor for effect.Seems to be confirmed by them not generally using XJâs to wreck even though it was more the blaggersâ motor of choice than Mk2 or S type by then.Nor any of the 420 S type model which was the only realistic one of the older saloon line which could rightly still compete with the XJ in value to the trade in the day.With the situation now reversed in that Mk2 and S-type are generally more valuable than the XJ although like Capri v Granada no logical reason for it.
Carryfast:
robroy:
Donât want to be a smart arse hereThat was because they used an M reg when the old Consul name was used to denote the manual 3.0 version and/or trim spec but still used together with the Granada name.While if it had been a new one in the late 70âs by then the Sweeney spec version had changed to the 3000 S.
It was a Consul GT actually Mr Smartarse! I thought about mentioning it when I replied to Bewicks picture on the bottom of the previous page! Forgot you was an avid fan of the Sweeney Rob, I will leave you in the safe hands of C.F now as Iâm taking my mates EFF to Gaydon and talk about what is the best sat nav as I know itâs your favourite subject! Pete
Bewick:
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Reminds me of an mot failure ,was that the bay at the garage ? 
Punchy Dan:
Bewick:
0Reminds me of an mot failure
Danâl, Danâl !! for your information I never kept a car long enough for it to require an MOT test ! 
Carryfast:
albion1938:
Not too many of those Granadas left, my late nephew and his mates were responsible for the loss of a good few. Their favourite steed for bangering. I used to mechanic for him, couldnât do any more with this one!It was fair enough when they only used gone too far MOT failures.But it all got a bit silly when they started on good solid cars that the owners just couldnât be bothered to maintain any longer.Sadly it caused the needless loss of the pool of some of our best quality car history in everything from not just the Granada but also Zodiac and Vauxhall Cresta/Ventora and big Triumphs to the old school BMCâs like Westminster/6110.Ironically their battleship build quality being what attracted the banger racing crowd.
Plenty of the aforementioned cars still in Portugal,albeit left hookers.
David
Bewick:
Punchy Dan:
Bewick:
0Reminds me of an mot failure
Danâl, Danâl !! for your information I never kept a car long enough for it to require an MOT test !
I knew it , you ran older motors until the test expired then scrapped them
pete smith:
It was a Consul GT actually Mr Smartarse!
If youâd have walked into most car dealers at least in the day and said you wanted a Consul,rather than a 3 liter âConsul specâ Granada with the manual box in it,theyâd have either laughed or shown you one of these sitting in the corner of the showroom or forecourt in the hope that theyâd finally found a mug punter for it.
gbclassiccars.co.uk/images/m ⌠lmkii2.jpg
Which probably explains why Ford changed the title to Granada 3000 S for contemporary reg ones when the Sweeney was on the tele as I said.
Punchy Dan:
Bewick:
Punchy Dan:
Bewick:
0Reminds me of an mot failure
Danâl, Danâl !! for your information I never kept a car long enough for it to require an MOT test !
I knew it , you ran older motors until the test expired then scrapped them
Canât get 'owt past you Danâl ! Thatâs exactly how I operated, as long as the motor had a bit ticket on it the job was reet !! You obviously manage to âbuyâ a ticket nowadays IIRC they were 500 notes in my day ! how much are they now ?
Dennis,
Recall the Ford dealership where I did my apprentichip having Mot Certificates stolen from the book, which in those days was left on the service desk/ counter Back in mid 70âs !!! One of the testers found a handful missing from the back of the book!! of course they were authenticated as we had already stamped them up to save time!!!
This sort of thing brought in the day / night safe processes!
E.W.
Full page of thread drift so far.
Itâs now 12 months since Dean started this great thread.
Hereâs a few of my favorites from the archivesâŚ
A&J Butterworth Greenfield.
James Nuttall Rochdale
B&H Transport Clitheroe
George Dew Civil Engineers Oldham
Harry Nuttall Heywood.
John Killingbeck Blackburn
Kaye Goodfellow Manchester
Joseph Hoyle Transport Ltd Audenshaw Manchester
moomooland:
Full page of thread drift so far.Itâs now 12 months since Dean started this great thread.
Hereâs a few of my favorites from the archivesâŚ9Scootâs of Oldham.
8A&J Butterworth Greenfield.
7James Nuttall Rochdale
6 B&H Transport Clitheroe
5 George Dew Civil Engineers Oldham
4Harry Nuttall Heywood.
3John Killingbeck Blackburn
2Kaye Goodfellow Manchester
1W&J Riding Longridge
0Joseph Hoyle Transport Ltd Audenshaw Manchester
+1 
Robert
Chris Webb:
Chilton F10. This fella certainly run a tidy fleet of trucks.The Chilton livery reminds me of Sweetings.
kenfig bill:
Hello DEAN ,âŚsome super Welsh shots âŚthe Crusader is Kelvedon from Rogerstone Newport âŚthey had a big fleet of them hauling out of Alcan âŚthe Caswell F88 would haul out of Coopers filters âŚthe factory in Llanfoist not far from Roys depot .
Dunlopilla had afew Spanish Dodges think they finished up with Ford Cargos âŚjust keep them coming Dean âŚGeraint
Thanks for the information and names Geraint !
jshepguis:
Dean
Mercedes is 21st Century Transport.
Daf pulling the Amoric trailer looks like Dave Robbins.
Dodge looks to be a Dunlopillo unit as you can just see the logo on the door. Whether in those days it was run by Dunlop or a logistics company as we now know them as i donât know.
Thanks for the names chap !
240 Gardner:
Dean the scammel looks like a subbie from around the Garstang area,the name escapes me at the moment.You werenât thinking of Nugentâs of Brock? They ran Crusaders, but I donât think that this is one of them though
240 Gardner:
Foden half cab at Sandwich.we know you meant Sandbach really
But are you sure itâs a Foden? Isnât a temporary structure on an M Series ERF test chassis, looking at the front bumper?
I don;t know enough about ERFs to recognise whatâs beneath the ski, but it doesnât look very Foden-ish to me
You might be right Chris ? The only thing is Mark did work at Foden for a period and as of yet i have only
seen photo taken at the Foden works and have not seen any taken at the ERF factory. However this could
always be the first â â ?
kingswinford kit:
Anyone recognise the FIAT â â ?Hi DEAN ,the FIAT could well be Taylors of Martley very similar colours and they did have that sort of thing .
If so it would have been hauling out of Metal box Neath (they did most of the work out of Eaglesbush) and thier was aMetal box plant in Worcester .
Excellent shot of Caswells F88 ! regards Keith
Thanks for your comments Keith !
GCR2ERF:
I don;t know enough about ERFs to recognise whatâs beneath the ski, but it doesnât look very Foden-ish to me
Iâll second your opinion Mr 240 - I bet some old sweat on here will recognise that trade plate too
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anorak:
But are you sure itâs a Foden? Isnât a temporary structure on an M Series ERF test chassis, looking at the front bumper?I don;t know enough about ERFs to recognise whatâs beneath the ski, but it doesnât look very Foden-ish to me
Looks like they have cobbled it together to move long lengths of steel around the works.
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