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(Message started by: Daniel on Mar 12^th, 2013, 11:32am)

Title: Rare Scorpio? Mk3 Granada.
Post by Daniel on Mar 12^th, 2013, 11:32am

Hi
I found this on ebay but i cant understand what is so rare about it. Does he mean the colour inside and out? dosnt seem anything too different from other Granadas/Scorpios but to be 1 of only 24 must be something im missing any ideas?
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Ford-Granada-Scorpio-I-A-2-0-/181100072869?pt=Automobiles_UK&hash=item2a2a67cfa5
Cheers
:)

Title: Re: Rare Scorpio? Mk3 Granada.
Post by PJDavis on Mar 12^th, 2013, 6:42pm

Small engine with high interior spec. Not a lot of the lower engine ones had heated seats and leather, I'm not sure what the buttons are on the near-side? I guess it might have had a single name of some sort as well!

Title: Re: Rare Scorpio? Mk3 Granada.
Post by Snoopy on Mar 13^th, 2013, 7:51am

If you are referring to the button on the back seat sill it is for the reclining rear seats. there is one the other side as well
The buttons on the nearside door arm rest are 1 The window up/down button
the rest are blanks put there as the car was a right hand drive. the drivers door had both window buttons and the mirror adjust on a stalk with a button for selection.

Title: Re: Rare Scorpio? Mk3 Granada.
Post by Daniel on Mar 13^th, 2013, 9:55am

Thanks guys. ;D

Title: Re: Rare Scorpio? Mk3 Granada.
Post by Scorpio_Mike on Mar 13^th, 2013, 10:28am

Looks very nice :)
Not many of these left now, been a while since I last saw one.
Should be able to get it on classic insurance.

Title: Re: Rare Scorpio? Mk3 Granada.
Post by amigafan2003 on Mar 15^th, 2013, 11:01pm

Possibly one of Fords worst engines - along with the v4!

Title: Re: Rare Scorpio? Mk3 Granada.
Post by PJDavis on Mar 16^th, 2013, 5:41am

on 03/15/13 at 23:01:30, amigafan2003 wrote:

Possibly one of Fords worst engines - along with the v4!

Oh? I quite liked the old 2.0 ltr V4. I've got a mate in Malta with a Corsair has that engine and it starts/runs quite sweetly. Not great performance wise or very fuel economic, but I did a head-job on it, and put hardened valves in for un-leaded, and it's a nice wee engine!

Title: Re: Rare Scorpio? Mk3 Granada.
Post by gozz on Mar 16^th, 2013, 10:33am

Ah the much maligned V4,the engine that journalists loved to sneer at ::) we are all aware of the odd timing gear failure usually the result of improper maintenance,after all Ford used timing gears since 1932 without dire consequences.From my own experience I drove Transit vans and minibuses with V4 engines, all over the country at a considerable rate of knots,never did I have a problem, neither did anyone known to me 8)
GOZZ.

Title: Re: Rare Scorpio? Mk3 Granada.
Post by Baz on Mar 31^st, 2013, 11:47pm

I have a V4 2000E Corsair....2800 miles from new!!! Its Lovely!

Title: Re: Rare Scorpio? Mk3 Granada.
Post by gozz on Apr 1^st, 2013, 10:12am

There was a silver 2000E at Anglia Car Auctions recently Baz,it had been restored at a cost of £15000,it reached £7400 but was withdrawn.Yours being original must be valuable,it'll be an asset for your lad when you turn your toes up ;D
GOZZ.

Title: Re: Rare Scorpio? Mk3 Granada.
Post by Baz on Apr 1^st, 2013, 10:29pm

Thanks Gozz... always good to know. Did you get anymore details about the car by any chance?

and as for the last bit... isn't it against site rules to drum up business on the forum!! ;D ;D

Title: Re: Rare Scorpio? Mk3 Granada.
Post by gozz on Apr 2^nd, 2013, 12:02am

No more details Baz other than the reg which I think was ODM 7E,from Flintshire. I am now only on the fringe of the dying trade,having parted with all but one of 'the carriages' 8)