![]() Car shoppers in the ancient city of Granada, Spain, were thus able to buy the car named after their home (though SEATs were a lot cheaper there during the Franco era). ![]() ![]() The last vehicles sold in the USA using versions of the '60 Comet's platform (full unibody, coil-atop-upper-control-arm front suspension and leaf springs out back) were the 1980 Ford Granada and its Mercury and Lincoln siblings, and I've found one of those now-rare cars in a Denver self-service boneyard.įord began using the Granada name on the other side of the Atlantic for the 1972 model year, when it started production of the successor to the Zephyr in Dagenham and Cologne. The original 1960 Falcon itself stayed in production in Argentina through 1991, and in North America it begat vehicles including the Mustang, Cougar, Fairlane, Ranchero, Maverick, Frontenac and Versailles. When the Ford Motor Company's Robert McNamara axed the Edsel and shifted Ford resources into the new Falcon compact (a few years before becoming the architect of the Vietnam War as secretary of defense), he had no way of knowing just how much of a money-printer the new car's chassis design would prove for his employer. Junkyard Gem: 1980 Ford Granada 4-Door Sedan One of the last in a long line of cars descended from the 1960 Ford Falcon ![]()
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