Is there anything more tiresome than the remnants of a brain re-index?

[hirez]

So we're off somewhere disreputable in my car - a MKII Granada with a righteous V8 and a PA loud enough to piss off the dead - and have to stop to pick up our travelling companions, who are living in Brockhampton Park. (Which does not appear on the internet for some reason)

[name elided] wants to have a quick blap around the grounds in the car because, well, who wouldn't. I warn them that the steering's lighter than you'd expect and booting the thing might become unfortunate, but I'm busy fiddling with the soundtrack via the Ableton interface built into the glove compartment lid and don't spot the manic gleam in their eyes.

Predictably, while they make it past the stables and clock-tower, the 90 degree left-hander outside the old Dowty test-beds proves entertaining and it sounds like this: BRAAAAR! SCREEE! CRUNCH! Ominous silence!

The damage is thankfully limited to one rear quarter panel and a bruised ego, but there's going to have to be some work done on the car before we can be on our way.

(Yes I made it all up. Lord alone knows why my subconscious thinks [name elided] would be careless enough to bend my car)

Comments

[moral-vacuum.livejournal.com]

My dear father had a Mk 2 Granada 2.8 V6. Blimey, it didn't half move.

Handled like a dead cow, though...

[eljaydaly.livejournal.com]

Your subconscious is playing with you. Next thing you know, you'll be having dreams about drowning, or falling out of a plane without a parachute.

[jozafeen.livejournal.com]

MKII Granada! I always wanted the MKI coupe in purple of course :-)

[hirez.livejournal.com]

Poking about on the internets, I probably had a Mk1 in my head. Though it wasn't copper-coloured. (Haw!)

"Yor goin' dahn ver steps, you slaahg! Etc!"

Oh. God. I was offered a Mk1 coupe once. (As is usual in these matters, when I had no money and nowhere to put it)

[jendama.livejournal.com]

During the 80s when taking Driver's Education classes, we had Granadas to use for practice at my school. They weren't the model you mentioned but they were sluggish and frustrating to parallel park. I was so happy to learn one day that a student had crashed and ruined one, as we got a Firebird as a replacement (woot!). Back then I swore to never drive a Granada again (and I haven't).