Amazing to see one of these has made it to the USA of all places! I'm no expert but these would have been Traffic Police cars in the UK, and I'm surprised it's an auto and the non-fuel injected Cologne. Maybe possibly a replica, but very interesting all the same!
beautiful car. you should take the strobes and LED's off the grille and just have the halogen's in there, keep it all original - halogens and rotators.
In South Africa the mk1 granada was avaliable with a 302 V8 on special order a guy called Basil Green ran a tuning company that did the conversion and it came with a factory ford warranty. They also did a V8 conversion with the mk1 ford Capri
They had the red jam sandwich livery strip down the side, topped off with the crest for Wiltshire Constabulary. I lived in Somerset and the Avon and Somerset cars had the same as I remember. But all police forces had the jam sandwich livery. You could see them on Triumphs, Rovers, Austin, Morris and Hillmans
Love it! Would you be able to do a full video of the Stirling Tri-Sound siren at some point? I believe they were very similar to what the Metropolitan Police in London were using at that time.
These were sold in Australia as the XD Falcon albeit heavily modified underneath using the same suspension as the XC Falcon, Your engine and gearbox choices were 200ci (3.3 litre) inline six cylinder, 250ci (4.1 litre) inline six cylinder, 302ci (4.9 litre) v8 and 351ci (5.8 litre) v8 and gearbox choices were 3 speed column shift manual, 3 speed floor shift manual, 4 speed floor shift manual or 3 speed borg warner auto
These were traffic cars made for the motorway network. I have family in Essex and i got pulled over quite a lot as a young man so its possible this car pulled me over at some point lol ive owned a few granny's over the years from a mrk 1....3 litre counsel too the mrk 3 28i ghia x these where fantastic cars reliable they looked good. nice too drive good memories.
I like how folks are calling them Grannys. There was a Ford Granada in the U.S. in the late '70s and early '80s, but it was an entirely different car. I have never heard anyone here call them Grannys but now I wish that I had.
Early Mk2. Quite how it ended up in America is a mystery. Unfortunately, most of those over here in the UK ended up being Banger Raced (Demolision Derby), or they just rusted away. A neighbour in Northern Ireland had a 1984 Mk2 Granada Ghia 2.8ix back in the day. Caspian Blue Metallic. Nice car.
Not sure if they used them as cop cars in Berlin Germany. The Polizei used multiple different types of vehicles. I was there in the early eighties .There were some funky looking Fords over there. My father had worked for Ford so I really noticed the European ones and how different they were from the American ones. In Berlin the Taxicabs were Mercedes Benz. Back then it wasn't to expensive to take a cab. The Berlin public Transportation system was truly great though. Wish we had one here in the states like they do there.
@@unlovedautos Banger racing is taking old cars and racing them around a track smashing in to other cars. quite a number of old car have met this fate. a great example of this is my 1982 Toyota Cressida Estate (Called a wagon in America) mine being the last Estate left on the road in the UK. Quite a number of cressidas were banger raced about 15 to 20 years ago. Seen quite a few pictures of them being smash up.
Cool! The rust on the rear wheel arches is a standard problem on all Granadas. Also the Ford logo falling off is also a standard fault. Not sure but I assume that the logo is the same as on some US Fords, so would likely be easy to find a replacement in better shape. The door trim going bad is also a standard problem, which ironically only happens on the L trim level and above, as the cheapest trim level don't have the textile part and thus everything is made out of one sheet of whatever material they used, so nothing that can separate. Re rust, unless the floor is spotless I recommend not using the rear receptacles (or whatever it's called) for the factory jack, as using the jack tends to finish off any remaining load bearing metal and turn it into mush if it's rusty in that area. Fortunately unless you are on a weird surface you can lift up both tires with the front factory jack position receptacle. Yours being 82-85 makes it a Mk2 S2 which has various minor improvements over the older models. For example you will likely never have any problem with the door hinges, while on 81 and older the hinges tend to need new bushings and whatnot, and I've read recommendations to add grease nipples to those hinges. If you ever have to swap the engine, make sure the sending unit for the temp meter is kept with the car. Those differs between different years. If you have a sending unit from a Granada from 81 or older and put it in a Granada 82-85 your temp meter will only briefly move from zero for a while, and then as the engine heats up it will go down to zero again. Seems to be a common reason for damaged engines. I.E. for some reason the engine gets replaced, wrong sending unit is fitted on the replacement engine, and something causes the engine to overheat and it's time to replace/renovate the engine again. This seems to be one of the last car types where the Haynes repair manual is actually really good. Beware that things related to different exhaust/smog regulations in different countries might not be correct in the Haynes manual. I would think that the Haynes manual is correct for a car sold in the UK though. I love the ride quality of these cars. Floats over pot holes, speed bumps and whatnot but still handles well on a windy rural road. Also as with most older cars the pillars are narrow so you have great view, and with the boxy body shape it's easy to park in tight spaces, and it's generally nice to drive in city traffic even though it's large (by European standards, I assume it's small compared to many US cars :) ). In Sweden Granadas were used by the state run telephone monopoly. They ordered a bunch of them with four speed rather than five speed transmissions, probably to get a better price. I think all those used the smaller straight four "pinto" 2.0 engine (called "Lima" engine in USA afaik?).
I remember this car, cause we've had them in Holland to. But also in Holland they called Granada. They are bigger then the Ford Taunus, wich we've also had.
@@edensker It's a strange mixture. When we were part of the European Union the weights and measures changed to metric by law but never the road distances or speed measurement, always miles and mph like the US. Now we have left the European Union there is some use of Imperial weights and measures again but they are mainly metric as so many people have grown up using metric now.
@unlovedautos great video too! I clicked on seeing an old British cop car and was amazed that it was in the US! But we also get old US cop cars over here too.
The Granada mk2 2.8 1980 was our family car from 1987 to 1992. It cost my dad £3000 in 1987, and it was considered quite luxurious compared to some of the other cars sat on my street. It was actually a rather comfy and spacious car
@unlovedautos It was metallic gold on the outside with sunroof and brown cloth seats. It had a walnut style dashboard with analogue clock and all the essential instruments and a cassette player fitted as standard. It was comfy with a lot of space, and perfect for long journeys. Me my brother, sister and two cousins (all very young of course) would all fit in the back on holiday trips to the coast. The V6 engine had no trouble towing caravans either. It was a very good car for its time. It would make a perfect classic collectors car, but I doubt very much if it exists anymore. According to the car registry website it doesn't anyway shame really😊
Sweet Granada. With genuine police provenance.. 'twould be worth a few pounds over here. You could also get a wagon (estate) version. With the 2.8 injection they went very well indeed. 3 speed auto is a little unusual for a police car, but probably it was a motorway car
My teacher had a Granada Ghia 2.8 Estate in pale Metallic blue, I though it was really cool and it sounded meaty as it pulled away, nice cars in the 80s now Fords are just crap with tiny plastic engines with little tin can Turbos bolted on that break.
Nice car, but I don't think the police would have an automatic gearbox in one of their vehicles and the siren didnt sound like the ones I remember. but still a nice car
Of course they used autos! Especially in large vehicles with large capacity engines (large to the UK/Europe) The UK Police used auto Rover SD1 V8s, auto Granadas, Auto Scorpios (the 24v was ONLY auto!) Auto Carltons and Senators! Obviously latterly they used auto Jeep Cherokees, BMWs, Jaguars etc.
@@davekennedy6315Its just when I worked at a police workshop back in the late 80'S we NEVER saw an automatic, whether it was a Ford Granada or an awful Rover SD1
We should have had these Granada's in America instead of the garbage that was the Granada here. Perfect example of what was wrong with the American car industry.
@Englishsea24 they were an entirely different car, but called a Granada. They were basically the exact chassis of a 1960 Falcon with a body to look like a bargain store Mercedes. Totally archaic engineering. They were never police cars. They could hardly get out of their own way and handled like an ox cart on ice.
The US nearly got its own version of the original European Granada. A concept car was built, called the Lincoln Mark I, which was based on the 1973 Granada (the car in the video's predecessor, same platform) with a restyled front end. In the end, they decided to make the Lincoln Versailles instead.
B668 EHK General information Make FORD Model GRANADA I Colour White Year of manufacture 1985 Top speed 130 mph Gearbox 5 speed Manual Engine & fuel consumption Power 160 BHP Max. torque 22 Nm at 4.300 rpm Engine capacity 2.792 cc Cylinders 4 Fuel type Petrol
Very similar to the Australian Ford Falcon XD. Google it 👍 The Australian version was completely different inside and had the option of a 3.3 or 4.1 pushrod straight 6 or a 4.9 and 5.8 Cleveland V8. Not the best built cars here. Rather nasty actually.
Not if you know what the lights were used for. As well as the factory headlamps, the top 2 in front of the grill are spot lamps, the 2 beneath the bumper are fog lamps. This is also how I had them fitted to my mk3 Ford Escort, as it's a good idea to have decent lights in the UK on our twisty country lanes, especially so going to work long before the sun gets up, hitting a deer that wasn't spotted in time can seriously wreck a car!!
I'd say the ones in front of the grill are just an extra set of long beams, they usually switch on automatically with the factory long beam headlights (unless wired to a different switch), the ones underneath the bumper look like fog lights indeed but at that time they used to be yellow on every car. And the lights on top, thats the ones you use to look on the sides to spot a deer while in town or through bushes on your twisty country lanes. I guess, thats what they are supposed to be but i cant see any turning mechanisms below them so they are just another set of extra long beams on the roof.
@@grenzhochspannungshindernis What you call long beams are what we in the UK would call spot lamps. The ones in front of the grill were factory fitted to upmarket and also the sportier versions of Fords in the 70's and 80's, not just police cars.Which were permanently fixed in the straight ahead position. Fog lamps, or any light for that matter on British registrated cars were not yellow from the factory. The only reason anyone's car over here had yellow lights would've been because they'd been across the channel to France, as any that did coloured their lights with a headlamp paint pen from a car spares shop. (the brillianty knowledgeable independent shops themselves are rare now, thanks to the complexities of modern cars, plus major chains like Halfords and also the internet)
@@michaeledwards427 the more I read your comments, the more I get confused. Long beams are the ones to brighten road ahead of you and the spot lights(DRLs and foggies) are used to just be seen from far and the yellower the foggies the better you are seen in white fog(blizzard or heavy rain). It's also confusing that factories were installing third party (Hella?) lights on their cars. Probably you meant to say official ford dealers, not actual factories? Also the yellow paint (pen?) on the lights... I always thought it was just a yellow film wrapped around lenses of the head or underneath the bumper lights...
@@grenzhochspannungshindernis I can honestly say I've never heard of any light called long beams here in UK before your comment. As any light back in the day or currently have always been dipped/main beam on the headlights, spot or fog lamps. So many upmarket and sporty Fords in Europe were fitted with the same spot lamps, mk1/mk2/3 fiesta, ( Fiesta XR2 and Escort XR3 for instance) escort mk2 plus further marks as well mk1 and 2 Granada's that they would only have been fitted at the factory, plus don't forget it's cheaper for manufacturers to outsource manufacturing of some parts, even if their factory fitted. When my employer brought new trucks it was common that one part already fitted from new was made by Rubbolite. I remember the garage boss was angry over the price of a rubbolite made spare part that was supplied by ford, in a ford motorcraft box that came out of the main Ford parts centre at Daventry (I even went there a few times for an urgently needed part) but he was annoyed because he could order the EXACT same part in a rubbolite box from a motor factor much more cheaply, which he certainly did!! On the yellow head lamp tint, yes the film was available but so were the colouring pens. I have never yellowed any light on any car I've ever owned in 37 years of driving and car ownership or have I ever had any reason to, also I can't remember the last time I saw any British car with any yellow lights on it. Yellowing of lights must've gone out of fashion in other parts of Europe as the multitude of foreign vehicles that we see on UK roads 99% now have all white lights on the front but ones with yellow lights really do stand out. Additionally some bikers have taken to tinting their headlamps red (far more common to see on bikes than yellow) to stand out from the crowd as a survival strategy, although I fully understand why but its illegal to have any red light facing forward or white light facing rearwards on British roads.
I remember seeing them as a child. We use to call them the jam sandwich. (White with a red stripe). That type of car would have spent most of it's life going up and down the motorways chasing car's like the XR3i Also at that time police car's was stripped of the luxuries, such as electrical windows and air con which would have been standard on this model. Also check out the car that replaced this. Vauxhall Senator 3.0i 24v. That car put the fear of god in you if you was unlucky enough to have that behind you
The Vauxhall Senator 3.0i 24v was a proper 150mph motorway muncher. Seeing that front grill in your rear view mirror you knew the game was up for most people
Amazing to see one of these has made it to the USA of all places!
I'm no expert but these would have been Traffic Police cars in the UK, and I'm surprised it's an auto and the non-fuel injected Cologne. Maybe possibly a replica, but very interesting all the same!
I remember getting stopped by one off these when I was younger when I lived in Essex uk it did not have that type of siren in the day great video
I agree, thats does not sound like a two tone siren for a uk cop car!
My sweety owned a mk 2 ford Granada 2.8 GL in gold superb car ..... registration was jgm 457w sadly no longer on road 😭
beautiful car. you should take the strobes and LED's off the grille and just have the halogen's in there, keep it all original - halogens and rotators.
In South Africa the mk1 granada was avaliable with a 302 V8 on special order a guy called Basil Green ran a tuning company that did the conversion and it came with a factory ford warranty. They also did a V8 conversion with the mk1 ford Capri
Holy cow, that would have been a blast.
The yearly MOT records for that car is available using one of the ‘mymot’ apps. The first year available is 2005 until it was exported to the US.
Ford Granada um carro sensacional saudacoes aqui do Brasil
It's great to have someone watching from Brazil. Welcome!
Brazil, welcome! Thanks for watching.
When I was a kid, Wiltshire Police used Estate versions as traffic cars, they were big and rapid.
Did they have a similar paint scheme?
They had the red jam sandwich livery strip down the side, topped off with the crest for Wiltshire Constabulary. I lived in Somerset and the Avon and Somerset cars had the same as I remember. But all police forces had the jam sandwich livery. You could see them on Triumphs, Rovers, Austin, Morris and Hillmans
Love it! Would you be able to do a full video of the Stirling Tri-Sound siren at some point? I believe they were very similar to what the Metropolitan Police in London were using at that time.
Crazy seeing a granny stateside in the sunshine and not here in wet and miserable uk!
I'm Aussie and England is miserable just to look at
The Texas sunshine is nice . . . except when it is 110 degrees. Still better than rain, though.
Why? IS it Aussies don't get along Brits? @SassyXR6007
@@johnmeier6647 its the weather. Always gloomy
Its really neat seeing a european granada in the states, greetings from cologne!
Its very unique
It’s cool that someone from Cologne saw the video. Thanks for watching!
There is a similar ex-Strathclyde Police Ford Granada on display at the Riverside Museum in Glasgow.
I need to research a photo of that car.
These were sold in Australia as the XD Falcon albeit heavily modified underneath using the same suspension as the XC Falcon, Your engine and gearbox choices were 200ci (3.3 litre) inline six cylinder, 250ci (4.1 litre) inline six cylinder, 302ci (4.9 litre) v8 and 351ci (5.8 litre) v8 and gearbox choices were 3 speed column shift manual, 3 speed floor shift manual, 4 speed floor shift manual or 3 speed borg warner auto
Great information. Thanks!
HAHA good to see a fellow AUSSIE and a fellow ford fan at that, I had the later XF version on the XD
Are you sure?
Yes, look up australian xd ford falcon, internally in ford australia it was known as blackwood
These were traffic cars made for the motorway network. I have family in Essex and i got pulled over quite a lot as a young man so its possible this car pulled me over at some point lol ive owned a few granny's over the years from a mrk 1....3 litre counsel too the mrk 3 28i ghia x these where fantastic cars reliable they looked good. nice too drive good memories.
I like how folks are calling them Grannys. There was a Ford Granada in the U.S. in the late '70s and early '80s, but it was an entirely different car. I have never heard anyone here call them Grannys but now I wish that I had.
Early Mk2. Quite how it ended up in America is a mystery.
Unfortunately, most of those over here in the UK ended up being Banger Raced (Demolision Derby), or they just rusted away.
A neighbour in Northern Ireland had a 1984 Mk2 Granada Ghia 2.8ix back in the day. Caspian Blue Metallic. Nice car.
Thanks for the comment. Great info.
Not sure if they used them as cop cars in Berlin Germany. The Polizei used multiple different types of vehicles. I was there in the early eighties .There were some funky looking Fords over there. My father had worked for Ford so I really noticed the European ones and how different they were from the American ones.
In Berlin the Taxicabs were Mercedes Benz. Back then it wasn't to expensive to take a cab. The Berlin public Transportation system was truly great though. Wish we had one here in the states like they do there.
While i dont know about Berlin, Hamburg had a fleet of mk1 granadas as police cars, and mk2 granadas where used as taxis in some citys in germany.
We use MPH in the UK, not KM/H so nothing odd about that.
I did not know that. Good to know.
That one is so very cool - a gem in your collection! Hope you found the Ford badge on the way home 😬
Watch until the very end and find out!
The most amazing thing is that this car didn't end up being banger raced in the UK.
What is banger racing?
@@unlovedautos Banger racing is taking old cars and racing them around a track smashing in to other cars. quite a number of old car have met this fate. a great example of this is my 1982 Toyota Cressida Estate (Called a wagon in America) mine being the last Estate left on the road in the UK. Quite a number of cressidas were banger raced about 15 to 20 years ago. Seen quite a few pictures of them being smash up.
@@JakeEP70 Now I understand. In America we call it demolition derby. A lot of big '60s and '70s sedans and wagons were used in those derbies.
Especially as Arena Essex was the centre of the banger racing world.
A very nice example I bit this car gets a lot of attention on that side of the Atlantic. Greetings from U.K
It gets a lot of attention from older folks but I took it to a Boy Scouts car show one time and the kids barely noticed it. I was so surprised.
That was the largest car in the UK. Probably still is!
The first Ford to top £10000!
Try the Rover SD1 3500 litre it uses the Buick V8 made under licence. From around the same time and quicker.
Epic car. Legendary
In Australia it was XD XE ford falcon 4.0 6 cyclinder 1979 - 83
Well only the headlights were interchangeable between the mk2 and the XD, everything else was slightly bigger to fit the larger drivetrain.
Optional 4.9 and 5.8 Cleveland v8's too !!
nope...not a single body panel is interchangeable. Only the headlights are the same.
Bet that’s done a few miles on the M11 and 25 and A12.
Haha, now I need to look up to see where those roads are located.
Cool!
The rust on the rear wheel arches is a standard problem on all Granadas. Also the Ford logo falling off is also a standard fault. Not sure but I assume that the logo is the same as on some US Fords, so would likely be easy to find a replacement in better shape. The door trim going bad is also a standard problem, which ironically only happens on the L trim level and above, as the cheapest trim level don't have the textile part and thus everything is made out of one sheet of whatever material they used, so nothing that can separate.
Re rust, unless the floor is spotless I recommend not using the rear receptacles (or whatever it's called) for the factory jack, as using the jack tends to finish off any remaining load bearing metal and turn it into mush if it's rusty in that area. Fortunately unless you are on a weird surface you can lift up both tires with the front factory jack position receptacle.
Yours being 82-85 makes it a Mk2 S2 which has various minor improvements over the older models. For example you will likely never have any problem with the door hinges, while on 81 and older the hinges tend to need new bushings and whatnot, and I've read recommendations to add grease nipples to those hinges.
If you ever have to swap the engine, make sure the sending unit for the temp meter is kept with the car. Those differs between different years. If you have a sending unit from a Granada from 81 or older and put it in a Granada 82-85 your temp meter will only briefly move from zero for a while, and then as the engine heats up it will go down to zero again. Seems to be a common reason for damaged engines. I.E. for some reason the engine gets replaced, wrong sending unit is fitted on the replacement engine, and something causes the engine to overheat and it's time to replace/renovate the engine again.
This seems to be one of the last car types where the Haynes repair manual is actually really good. Beware that things related to different exhaust/smog regulations in different countries might not be correct in the Haynes manual. I would think that the Haynes manual is correct for a car sold in the UK though.
I love the ride quality of these cars. Floats over pot holes, speed bumps and whatnot but still handles well on a windy rural road. Also as with most older cars the pillars are narrow so you have great view, and with the boxy body shape it's easy to park in tight spaces, and it's generally nice to drive in city traffic even though it's large (by European standards, I assume it's small compared to many US cars :) ).
In Sweden Granadas were used by the state run telephone monopoly. They ordered a bunch of them with four speed rather than five speed transmissions, probably to get a better price. I think all those used the smaller straight four "pinto" 2.0 engine (called "Lima" engine in USA afaik?).
Great information! Thanks for sharing.
I remember this car, cause we've had them in Holland to. But also in Holland they called Granada. They are bigger then the Ford Taunus, wich we've also had.
Thanks for the extra information. I appreciate learning more about these cars.
@@unlovedautos Your welcome 😉
Very nice. We have always been miles per hour and distances in miles in England (UK), speedometers have never been in km here.
I had no idea. Thanks for the educational comment and for watching.
Everything else in England is metric, right? That is so interesting.
@@edensker It's a strange mixture. When we were part of the European Union the weights and measures changed to metric by law but never the road distances or speed measurement, always miles and mph like the US. Now we have left the European Union there is some use of Imperial weights and measures again but they are mainly metric as so many people have grown up using metric now.
Oh, and fuel is sold in litres but we measure fuel economy in miles per gallon!
@@johnhutcheson2047 That must involve a lot of math.
It’s crazy how it looks like the ford falcon XF in Australia.
It really does. I had to look up the Falcon and sure enough . . . .
XD or XE
@@drewzerna4087 late 70s/80s XD falcon
Essex! My home county! I always wanted a Granny!
Nice!
I love it that folks over there are seeing the video.
I'm married to one... you can have mine.
@unlovedautos great video too! I clicked on seeing an old British cop car and was amazed that it was in the US! But we also get old US cop cars over here too.
@@zelphx haha! Congratulations!
We use MPH in England. Always have.
Road speed has always been measured in MPH in the UK, never in KPH.
That is a Mk 2 Granada. 👍
Was it normal for UK police to run automatics?
The Ford Del Rey Rich Cousin
Se a Ford tivesse lançado o granada ao invés do corcel de gravata ia dar muito trabalho ao opala e depois ao santana
So this car was in the UK, until around or just before 2016. The old 'Jam sandwich'
I remember us kids calling police cars jam sandwiches in the early 1990s. Before they were covered in the rainbow colours many years later 😊
The Granada mk2 2.8 1980 was our family car from 1987 to 1992. It cost my dad £3000 in 1987, and it was considered quite luxurious compared to some of the other cars sat on my street. It was actually a rather comfy and spacious car
What color were the interior and exterior? Sounds like a great car.
@unlovedautos It was metallic gold on the outside with sunroof and brown cloth seats. It had a walnut style dashboard with analogue clock and all the essential instruments and a cassette player fitted as standard. It was comfy with a lot of space, and perfect for long journeys. Me my brother, sister and two cousins (all very young of course) would all fit in the back on holiday trips to the coast. The V6 engine had no trouble towing caravans either. It was a very good car for its time. It would make a perfect classic collectors car, but I doubt very much if it exists anymore. According to the car registry website it doesn't anyway shame really😊
Sweet Granada. With genuine police provenance.. 'twould be worth a few pounds over here. You could also get a wagon (estate) version. With the 2.8 injection they went very well indeed. 3 speed auto is a little unusual for a police car, but probably it was a motorway car
With the three-speed auto being unusual, what was more common? Thanks in advance for the information.
@edensker usually a 5 speed manual was deemed sufficient for police work!
My teacher had a Granada Ghia 2.8 Estate in pale Metallic blue, I though it was really cool and it sounded meaty as it pulled away, nice cars in the 80s now Fords are just crap with tiny plastic engines with little tin can Turbos bolted on that break.
this vehicle was stolen near Heathrow Airport in 1986, Sir Robert says send it back!!🚔🚔🚔
Hahaha!
Makes me wonder what other uk cop cars America has nowadays
That's a great question. I do not recall seeing others.
The granada,s weren't too bad on the road. Speedometer definitely Miles. 65,000 is very low mileage. The ford's of the eighties where rusty enough.
they also made a 2,1 diesel mostly used for taxis and they also did a wagon but I don't know if that only was for the continental european markets
They only did 113 mph the rover sd1 was the boy in 80s 146 mph
Nice car, but I don't think the police would have an automatic gearbox in one of their vehicles and the siren didnt sound like the ones I remember. but still a nice car
The siren has other options. I just happened to have this one selected.
@@unlovedautos That explains it!! it is a nice car, hope you get the rust issues sorted so it can live on
Of course they used autos! Especially in large vehicles with large capacity engines (large to the UK/Europe) The UK Police used auto Rover SD1 V8s, auto Granadas, Auto Scorpios (the 24v was ONLY auto!) Auto Carltons and Senators! Obviously latterly they used auto Jeep Cherokees, BMWs, Jaguars etc.
@@davekennedy6315Its just when I worked at a police workshop back in the late 80'S we NEVER saw an automatic, whether it was a Ford Granada or an awful Rover SD1
We should have had these Granada's in America instead of the garbage that was the Granada here. Perfect example of what was wrong with the American car industry.
@@stevenbultman7811 Were they used as police cars, or was that another type of Ford?
@Englishsea24 they were an entirely different car, but called a Granada. They were basically the exact chassis of a 1960 Falcon with a body to look like a bargain store Mercedes. Totally archaic engineering. They were never police cars. They could hardly get out of their own way and handled like an ox cart on ice.
@@Englishsea24The American Granadas were too small to serve as police cars. The Fords used in that era were LTDS and Crown Victorias.
The US nearly got its own version of the original European Granada. A concept car was built, called the Lincoln Mark I, which was based on the 1973 Granada (the car in the video's predecessor, same platform) with a restyled front end. In the end, they decided to make the Lincoln Versailles instead.
Os caras usam del reis como viaturas kkkkk
Esses "del rey" são v6 te mete
😍😍😍😍😍😍
Would be interested in how this ended up Stateside…
I would love to know those details, too.
It's got the characteristics of Australian xd Ford falcon from the 80s
Certainly does.
The XD falcons design was based on the design from the prefacelift 70s mk2 granada, just expanded
@@Driver2806 ok interesting thanks for that information
Actually the 2dr would've been called a 'coupe' pronounced 'coopay" not "coop"
The 4dr like that is a saloon.
Tut tut no road tax as of 2016 😅
No road tax?
Britain use mph fir cars and km for lorries big trucks 5 tonne bigger up to 44 tonnes
The two door was called , 'Coupe.
B668 EHK
General information
Make FORD
Model GRANADA I
Colour White
Year of manufacture 1985
Top speed 130 mph
Gearbox 5 speed Manual
Engine & fuel consumption
Power 160 BHP
Max. torque 22 Nm at 4.300 rpm
Engine capacity 2.792 cc
Cylinders 4
Fuel type Petrol
Thanks for the information.
Very similar to the Australian Ford Falcon XD. Google it 👍
The Australian version was completely different inside and had the option of a 3.3 or 4.1 pushrod straight 6 or a 4.9 and 5.8 Cleveland V8. Not the best built cars here. Rather nasty actually.
They were the standard Ford built down to a profit. Hard to fault them though. Ford rock ape engineering at its most refined.
@@davidhayter8516 Great cars i had plenty
According to the amount of the lights in the front, officers driving this car were half blind.
Not if you know what the lights were used for. As well as the factory headlamps, the top 2 in front of the grill are spot lamps, the 2 beneath the bumper are fog lamps. This is also how I had them fitted to my mk3 Ford Escort, as it's a good idea to have decent lights in the UK on our twisty country lanes, especially so going to work long before the sun gets up, hitting a deer that wasn't spotted in time can seriously wreck a car!!
I'd say the ones in front of the grill are just an extra set of long beams, they usually switch on automatically with the factory long beam headlights (unless wired to a different switch), the ones underneath the bumper look like fog lights indeed but at that time they used to be yellow on every car. And the lights on top, thats the ones you use to look on the sides to spot a deer while in town or through bushes on your twisty country lanes. I guess, thats what they are supposed to be but i cant see any turning mechanisms below them so they are just another set of extra long beams on the roof.
@@grenzhochspannungshindernis What you call long beams are what we in the UK would call spot lamps. The ones in front of the grill were factory fitted to upmarket and also the sportier versions of Fords in the 70's and 80's, not just police cars.Which were permanently fixed in the straight ahead position. Fog lamps, or any light for that matter on British registrated cars were not yellow from the factory. The only reason anyone's car over here had yellow lights would've been because they'd been across the channel to France, as any that did coloured their lights with a headlamp paint pen from a car spares shop. (the brillianty knowledgeable independent shops themselves are rare now, thanks to the complexities of modern cars, plus major chains like Halfords and also the internet)
@@michaeledwards427 the more I read your comments, the more I get confused. Long beams are the ones to brighten road ahead of you and the spot lights(DRLs and foggies) are used to just be seen from far and the yellower the foggies the better you are seen in white fog(blizzard or heavy rain). It's also confusing that factories were installing third party (Hella?) lights on their cars. Probably you meant to say official ford dealers, not actual factories? Also the yellow paint (pen?) on the lights... I always thought it was just a yellow film wrapped around lenses of the head or underneath the bumper lights...
@@grenzhochspannungshindernis I can honestly say I've never heard of any light called long beams here in UK before your comment. As any light back in the day or currently have always been dipped/main beam on the headlights, spot or fog lamps. So many upmarket and sporty Fords in Europe were fitted with the same spot lamps, mk1/mk2/3 fiesta, ( Fiesta XR2 and Escort XR3 for instance) escort mk2 plus further marks as well mk1 and 2 Granada's that they would only have been fitted at the factory, plus don't forget it's cheaper for manufacturers to outsource manufacturing of some parts, even if their factory fitted. When my employer brought new trucks it was common that one part already fitted from new was made by Rubbolite. I remember the garage boss was angry over the price of a rubbolite made spare part that was supplied by ford, in a ford motorcraft box that came out of the main Ford parts centre at Daventry (I even went there a few times for an urgently needed part) but he was annoyed because he could order the EXACT same part in a rubbolite box from a motor factor much more cheaply, which he certainly did!! On the yellow head lamp tint, yes the film was available but so were the colouring pens. I have never yellowed any light on any car I've ever owned in 37 years of driving and car ownership or have I ever had any reason to, also I can't remember the last time I saw any British car with any yellow lights on it. Yellowing of lights must've gone out of fashion in other parts of Europe as the multitude of foreign vehicles that we see on UK roads 99% now have all white lights on the front but ones with yellow lights really do stand out. Additionally some bikers have taken to tinting their headlamps red (far more common to see on bikes than yellow) to stand out from the crowd as a survival strategy, although I fully understand why but its illegal to have any red light facing forward or white light facing rearwards on British roads.
I remember seeing them as a child. We use to call them the jam sandwich. (White with a red stripe). That type of car would have spent most of it's life going up and down the motorways chasing car's like the XR3i
Also at that time police car's was stripped of the luxuries, such as electrical windows and air con which would have been standard on this model. Also check out the car that replaced this. Vauxhall Senator 3.0i 24v. That car put the fear of god in you if you was unlucky enough to have that behind you
Thanks for the comment. I will check it out.
Unless, of course, you had a Lotus Carlton! ;)
The Vauxhall Senator 3.0i 24v was a proper 150mph motorway muncher. Seeing that front grill in your rear view mirror you knew the game was up for most people
Wow! That city is DEAD.
Haha, it’s a little town of 4000.
The siren isn't original ,in UK it would have been two tone air horns for the period the car is from
An XD Falcon, but with a better engine...
BRING IT TO THE U.S.WILL MAKE IT RUN😤😤😤
Ha! On Ford badge! Good it’s back where it belongs.
Wrong siren for the age bud
Thank you for the comment.
Got a bad exhaust leak by the sounds of it
Good ear, you’re right.
Stop! English police! Do you have a license for that license?
It would be licence.
Do you have a licence for that TV? do you have a licence for that drone? Do you have a licence for breathing?