In 1980 Fred passed away and the car went to his sister Fern. This made doing research hard for a while since freds wife was also named Fern but she had passed on almost a decade previously. 

Fern had a Hitch attached to the Granada and the catalytic converter removed so she could use it to tow a horse trailer to Wyoming. 

As a young kid I loved all my grandpa's old cars. But I especially loved the Granada.

My grandpa would always tell us not to touch the old cars, but being a kid I never listened and would sneak under the cover of the Granada whenever I could to sit in the comfy, beautiful tan seats.

The car smelled like maple syrup on the interior and l imaged what it would be like to drive the car myself.

In 2012 I had a jetta that blew an engine and I went back to driving the old family van to high school. I did my best to make it cool but at the end of the day it was still a van.

In 2013 I convinced my dad to let me ask Grandpa if I could have the Granada. He said I could have it on one condition, and that was that I needed to fully restore it.

After the car show; we got started on restoring the car.

We didn't want to take any chances so we took the whole car down to the bare metal, sanding every inch of brown paint off.

After filling in a giant dent on the passenger bumper (that I put in it when I was 5) and welding and filling in a few other new parts the cars body was in perfect condition again and ready for paint.

After only 3 months we put the last piece of trim on the car and it was finally finished.

I had worked Monday-Saturday every day after work to make sure it was finished as quickly as possble.