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Aug 19, 2024 14:51:43 GMT
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Post by WDB on Aug 19, 2024 14:51:43 GMT
Not many Renaults in The Sweeney, love.
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Aug 19, 2024 15:07:08 GMT
Post by EspadaIII on Aug 19, 2024 15:07:08 GMT
At the same time my father's business was good, a number of staff had what we would now call executive cars. Someone left and left behind a Granada Ghia Coupe with the 3.0V6 Cologne engine. Not the best cars but by the standards of the day it packed a lot of torque and had a lovely velour and wood trimmed interior. Dad drove it for a short while before getting his NSU Ro80. The 604 followed.
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Post by WDB on Aug 19, 2024 15:44:19 GMT
…Granada Ghia Coupe … lovely velour and wood trimmed interior. And Humph said I was bad for Vić’s concentration! Dad drove it for a short while before getting his NSU Ro80. The 604 followed. …to pick up the bits? |
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Aug 19, 2024 15:55:25 GMT
Post by EspadaIII on Aug 19, 2024 15:55:25 GMT
Yeah - something like that. Dad's business was selling heating oil so had a fleet of road tankers and had a fully equipped and staffed commercial vehicle garage to maintain them. He sent Keith, the chief mechanic, on the course to maintain and repair the Wankel engine. Keith was a busy man.....
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Post by Deleted on Aug 20, 2024 7:58:48 GMT
…Granada Ghia Coupe … lovely velour and wood trimmed interior. And Humph said I was bad for Vić’s concentration! Dad drove it for a short while before getting his NSU Ro80. The 604 followed. …to pick up the bits? Hell's bells. Man, I love the Granda Ghia Coupé. Brown, of course. Vinyl roof. |
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Aug 20, 2024 8:01:43 GMT
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Post by Humph on Aug 20, 2024 8:01:43 GMT
Wasn’t there a big Vauxhally coupe too? Opel Monza is somehow lurking in my memory.
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Aug 20, 2024 8:05:48 GMT
Post by Deleted on Aug 20, 2024 8:05:48 GMT
Royale. Monza was the Opel badged version.
I like both of those too.
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Aug 20, 2024 8:16:46 GMT
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Post by Humph on Aug 20, 2024 8:16:46 GMT
Speaking of big coupes you don’t really see anymore, there was a BMW 5 series GT stuck halfway through a hedge on my way back from swimming last night.
There’s a couple of challenging bends on that country road that catch the non driving gods out with tedious regularity.
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