Did someone say Granada? This technically was my grandpa's car, but dad bought it for us 3 bid to learn to drive in. 78 Ford Granada, 4 door Robin's egg blue. Straight 6, 230 ci iirc with a c6 tranny. Pretty much like this one. Except it had no fake landau top. The thing was a tank. Not the biggest car, but holy cow was it built. Here it is. Who wouldn't want this car? An f150 (87-91) backed into the front fender of the Granada while I was driving it. The bumper of that f series , an all steel one BTW, bent, and the fiberglass nose of my Granada barely had a hairline crack.
My parents had a lot of uncool cars though. 86 or so Mercury zephyr wagon, like 3 escorts from the first generation. 2 wagons and one 2 door, all dark blue, a Ford Ltd, that dumb indestructible Granada. They had their share of cool cars though.
We did the rambler and pinto thing. Eventually both ended up in my grandma's hands. I think the rambler was the only new car dad ever bought. We also went through several mavericks (mom wrecked one, I wrecked another), a beetle, a couple of Chrysler Newport, and I forget what else. All very "sensible" cars. Yep, you win, hands down. I was wondering when somebody would fess up about a pacer.
Yeah, looking for a pic of the Granada, I saw those ads. Really, Ford? Who actually bought into that ad campaign? My grandpa bought it because it was cheap.
We also had a mid 70's Chevy wagon with wood trim. Drove all the way to Disney World facing backwards in that land yacht I can't remember exact year and model but similar to this Google pic
Now if they would've brought the European Granada, maybe, just maybe they could've pulled it off. I blame Lee Iococca.
My youngest brother bought a minty green one off my great-grandma, she drove into her late 80's. That car was a certain specimen of ugly
I had the same color, 'mica ruby', on a '87 GL wagon. Was the first wagon I owned. My parents had a Malibu wagon and a Honda Civic when I drove their cars.
The list of eternal embarrassment. A purple gremlin that didn't fire on 2 cylinders and suspension was so shot you could hear it squeeking down the road a 1/2 mile away. A Plymouth Valiant. The Dodge Raider that was rolled ant they got it cheap. A rusted out baby blue datsun wannabe pickup. The king of FUGLY was the Ford Ranchero that was turd brown and couldn't go over 35 on gravel because the steering was so out of wack it was more like herding wild cattle than steering. It stunk like mice and had holes in the floor boards. I was so glad when it finally died!
