Classic Ford – September 2019

mk1 granada

September 2019 43

here’s a mantra that’s been shared by
social commentators and other smug
people for generations: ‘expect the
unexpected’. Which is a fundamentally silly
thing to say, really; it creates a logical paradox, it
demands that you do something that’s literally
impossible. Nevertheless, with all that being
said, it’s actually not a bad piece of advice to
proffer in the case of this particular Granada.
You see, at fi rst glance it may appear to be a
sympathetically restored and largely original
example, perhaps with the odd tweak and
upgrade here and there... but all bets are off

when its owner, Craig Osborne, lifts the bonnet.

We’d lay down decent money that very few

readers would have guessed what engine’s

lurking in that clean-as-a-whistle bay.

Given the physical nature of print media,

however, coupled with the way your eyeballs are

dictated by natural curiosity, we’ll assume that

you’ve already looked at the engine shots and

correctly deduced that it’s an i4 motor, of the

type you’d fi nd in a late-model RS2000 or

Galaxy. And that’s pretty unexpected, is it not?

We’ve not seen this swap carried out before;

correct us if we’re wrong but we suspect the

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“AT FIRST GLANCE,

IT APPEARS TO BE A

SYMPATHETICALLY

RESTORED AND

LARGELY ORIGINAL

MK1 GRANADA”