I thought I liked Granadas

http://www.barrett-jackson.com/Archive/Event/Item/1978-FORD-GRANADA-2-DOOR-COUPE-182608

$27,500

For that price I hope there are no cracks under that dash mat.

What flavor hooker does that come with?

They could have bought a real collector car for $27,500...

I guess I shouldn't go to collector car auctions. I would have been laughing hysterically at this one.

And to think I sold mine for only $1500!

To be fair, all cars become collectable on a long enough time line. Dusenburg collectors thought the same thing about 32 Fords in the 50s. Now look at the prices.

But it was a 4 speed V8 car, rare.

I feel like there's one too many zeros there.

Hmm. The in-laws have a one-owner good condition Granada sitting in a garage. Maybe it's time to send her on her way. It will make up for the fact that Ferguson cut the value of the house down to 1/3 of it's original.

I suspect the buyer mistook the Granada for a Benz.

In reply to JohnRW1621:

So you remember those ads too.

My 2nd x-wife had a '78 Monarch. Very similar except for automatic.

Can I please go back in time and buy up all the E36 M3 boxes from the 70's? I'll make a killing at that rate!

JamesMcD wrote: For that price I hope there are no cracks under that dash mat.

Actually the only way its worth that much money is if there's a lot of crack under there for the new owner to sell off

I swear they spike the drinks at Barrett with stupid potion. It's amazing some of the prices that they sell these cars for.

Was it owned by the Pope? Sinatra? Liberace? Elvis?

Otherwise there is just no reason a Grenada should cost as much as a new Mustang.

actually, even if it was owned by all of them....it still wouldn't be worth close to 30 large....

I love watching Barrett Jackson, sometimes to see crazy stuff like this.

I've never been to one of their auctions, but I wonder if it's like a casino...they give you free or stupid cheap alcohol so you get stinkin' drunk and do something stinkin' stupid.

Look on the bright side for the guy who bought it (yes guy, I don't believe any woman would be that stupid) the front seat looks in good condition to prove the old 'you can sleep in a car, but not drive a house' quip. If I ever did something 1/10th as stupid as paying close to $30 for a POS like that, I wouldn't even qualify for the couch, I'd be sleeping in said stupidity for a long time.

You do have to admit though, that car is one dead sexy Granada. I mean, as far as Granadas go.

That's the nicest Granada I've seen...ever. I'm not going to debate on whether or not it's worth the coin because there have been many times where I thought "that thing will never go up in value" and was proven wrong.

Stupid people with way too much money...

if it was someone's dream car, who are we to judge?

back in the day (1991 or so), one of my friends picked up a really solid Grenada Ghia with no motor for $100.. we stuck a 351W of unknown vintage that we took out of his 79 Mustang in it and did many, many burnouts in that car and also put many, many C4 transmissions in that car in the couple of years that he owned it.. it was a hell of a cruiser, but it was also heavy and slow as hell.. he later got another one with a 6 cylinder and 3 speed manual... that car wasn't as fun.

I went and clicked that link thinking maybe there was something really cool about Granada's that I was forgetting. Nope. It's still an ugly late 70's Ford. Granted, an ugly late 70's Ford with a 4-speed, but still an ugly late 70's Ford.

I have to admit....... the Ford Grenada was my first "favorite" car. This was until I was seven.....when the Porsche 924 came out and blew me out of my Toughskins.

I think it was the car's happy "face" that drew me to it. Mom had a 68 Fairlane convertible, so I think the similarities between the cars made me think the Grenada was cool.

hey.....we all make mistakes!

My second car was a 77 Granada. I can tell you this, I do NOT like Granadas! Straight 6 250, faded, crappy turd I bought for the princely sum of $75. It did take another $200 or so to get it running. The upside is I did sell it for $300 when I got my first "rice burner" 82 Stanza.

My grandfather had one as a company car in '78. It was brown with a tan hardtop and tan interior. I don't think he liked it very well and was happy to see it go. Years later I worked with a guy that made a drag car out of one. I think it ran 10's or so, but it was so ugly we made him park away from the rest of us.

Of course I read on here all the guys that like Chevettes, and frankly, I'd rather have the Granada, but neither are worth much. Unless it was bought by a museum that needed one, the guy that bought it was clearly visiting the bar ahead of time.