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I bought a '77 Ford Torino in '78 It was my dad's company car and they gave him the option to turn it in or buy it cheap. I needed a car for school at the time so I bought it. It had only 48K miles and at around 50K the 351 V8 started a very noticeable miss which got worse every day.
Compression chech revealed two dead holes so the heads came off and we discovered massive gooves in the cylinder walls. When the engine was torn down for a complete overhaul we discovered Ford had all the piston ring gaps lined up and two cylinders had broken rings. That was my first and last Ford product. Well... I do own an old '84 F600 two ton flatbed truck today but it has a GM Detroit 8.2 diesel factory installed. I find it interesting that Ford chose to use a GM engine in the mid size trucks then. |
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I guess the IH Diesel can't be changed to handle that large a vehicle...
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my buddy had several grenadas and was perfectly happy with them, he used to buy them for a few hundred dollars and then part out the remains when he had squeezed out the last of its miles. They did rust, like most cars of the time, but then most cars didnt have the budget to use all of the coatings that Mercedes could use at their price point. that being said, it is a rediculous advert. But only in America, Europe outlawed direct comparison ads a long time ago.
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I just looked at a picture of a Grenada on google and realized that my elementary school best friend's dad had one as his daily driver. It was POOP brown (real dark) and he "abandoned" it to the street in front of the house when he got sick of trying to fix it....finally had it hauled off a year later when he donated it to a local "shop class" or something like that. (This was in like 1996, ages ago) I remember riding it it like 2-3x ever, when I was about 9 years old....it rode like a boat. So sadly, I have ridden in a Ford Grenada.
I remember it spewed soot on the ground when he'd start it up. Like a diesel....except a poorly running ford gasser.
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Grenada or Granada
Grenada is a country. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grenada
Granada is a car. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Granada
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Next we will see the the Buick Enima
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Grenada Granada, interchangable simile
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Of course the Ford Granada was also the Lincoln Versailles.
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I just checked out ebay and there still seems to be a few out there. Someone is even selling a mint one with 55k on it. Its definatley a late 70's/early 80's ford. The looks say it all. I shudder at the thought of driving one.
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...just being a smarta$$...
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http://www.garaget.org/?car=19525 And for the "Five-Hundred": Just look at a 2005 Ford and a 2005 S-Class standing next to each other. They're still at it.
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... and the original Taurus/Sable was pretty much designed to be an Audi 5000 (100/200) clone. I was around for the "best in class" study, the 5000 met 96% of the best in class, so Ford copied the car as close as they could without actually engineering a car.
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My grandfather had both of these cars at one time!!
but guess what car he still held onto? ....the euro 280se
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Yeah, I can tell the difference between a Ford Granada and a Mercedes! The Granada has been crushed and turned into something else and the Mercedes is most likely still on the road!
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