On Sat, 19 Aug 2017 08:39:25 -0600, Brewster wrote:

On 8/16/17 7:58 PM, wrote:
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My '74 Rustang II (a Pinto in drag) disappeared and I replaced it with
a '78 Granada that I had for fourteen years before I gave it away. It
looked like a Liberian Tanker but it ran.


My parents had a '76 Granada. My dad really wanted the 3-speed manual
but my mom said 'no'

Yeah, that was a couple of decades before my wife started saying "no"
to sticks. ;-) We even had '85 and '90 minivans with sticks but she
now drives a Mustang convertible with an automatic and wouldn't let me
buy a stick for my last two pickups, even.

Their mechanic always called it the "Gernade", not too bad of a car, but
the c4 automatic kept him well funded.
They were choosing between it and a Plymouth Volare, I think they won
the coin toss...

That's the truth! The Chryslers of that era were horrible. They
never improved.