Grange Motors

[dpr59]

Just been along Portrack Lane (Stockton) for the first time
in a few weeks. It looks like Grange has closed, boarded up with
somewhat large boulders blocking vehicle access.

My guess is to keep travellers out rather than sports cars in.

When did this happen.

It was the one thing that made a shopping trip to Stockton worthwhile.
Sue gets to look at shops, I get to look at cars on way home.

[bobfather]

I'm not surprised. For anyone who seriously wanted a performance car Grange was a place to go look but not a place to buy from.

Edited by bobfather on Sunday 12th April 23:20

[Bob1984]

It happened about a week ago, everytime you go past they never seemed to have sold a car.

[peterattheboro]

Bob1984 said:

It happened about a week ago, everytime you go past they never seemed to have sold a car.

Nor had people browsing

He had/has a really nice Corvette too

[555JWR]

They’ve moved to a new site at Brompton on swale

http://www.grangeperformance.co.uk/355/index.htm

[Chris_w666]

I viewed a couple of cars there but really their prices were stupidly high compared to other places.

It never seemed as interesting recently though, not like when they always seemed to have porsche race cars in the showroom.

[froggie]

Have you seen the add and showroom cars? "quality cars at affordable prices" they deserve to be selling micras,pug 206 es and crisler crusaders and all 13 cars in stock..
im glad they were so up themselves when i went to look around late 80s ish they fked me off, but when i returned a few weeks later in a month old carera2 they wanted to w*** me off, then returrned a month or so later in a new 300zx turbo just to rub it in..

dealers never know who they are talking to and should respect us all.shoreline lost 2 new car sales because they told me and a friend to go away and send his dad back if he wanted to buy a car friends choice dads money.the dealer was gutted when i told him he just lost the sale he of a new sirocco he replied it was sold i said exactly WAS to my mum!! he took flowers and chocolates round trying to grovel, till my dad grabed him and dragged him down our drive we all had a good laugh about it. till mum came home one night and anounced she just baught a new metro , my mate got a new jetta i baught my 1st capri and fitted a 3000 engine and never spoke to mum for weeks. oh how i wanted that sirocco

[Wedg1e]

I used to deal with Ces Price in the audio department a bit, went back to the days when I was in car security. Ces at the time was at Dixon & Roy; when they closed he moved to Grange as the Pioneer/ Cobra alarms specialist. The place I worked were agents for almost every brand except Cobra so we used to go through D&R for parts. Ces used to flog off stereo gear that he'd stripped from customers' cars as part-ex for pumped-up systems; my bro still has the Pioneer Centrate (separates system based on the KDX900 head) that Ces flogged him for about £75, it was worth the best part of two grand! To Ces car stereos were just black boxes bought by daft buggers with too much money. One suspects the car side of things worked the same way.