3.1 Capri

[DBSV8]

While my MK1 Cologne is in pieces and awaiting parts ,this Capri came up for sale on the bay .
A MK 2 1977 3 liter Capri in fantastic condition marked up to resemble a 3 liter sport

Complete with a folder full of bills , poly bushed all round upgraded 2.8 suspension , LSD , vented discs , black 280 raven leather interior and most importantly a receipt for £3000 for the rebuild and re bore of the essex v6 to 3.1 liters with stainless big bore exhausts

and shes very very loud , so far covered 800 miles in two weeks of ownership , a few cosmetic repairs to the interior will be sorted out but externally the canary yellow paintwork is in pristine condition.
lots of fun to drive , nice to get the tail out sideways in the wet






and Colpgne MK1

Edited by DBSV8 on Monday 2nd May 09:33

[DBSV8]

5ohmustang said:

Beautiful condition. Ex capri owner myself.

I always wanted a non sunroof shell like yours. Does the capri club still exist?

yes ,
there are several clubs regionally , ive seen quite a few on the road recently

[Darren390]

Looks stunning, congrats. My first classic was a Mk2 3.0 Ghia. Fantastic fun, and more characterfull than the 2.8 Special had had afterwards.

If I had the room, I would love a Mk2/3 3.0 S.

Edited by Darren390 on Monday 2nd May 07:17

[Flipatron]

Lovely looking thing.

Why do Capri owners never manage to apply the 'S' stripes correctly??

[LaurasOtherHalf]

Fantastic!

[andyastrasri]

Very, very nice, I remember when my Dad was offered a 3.0 as a company car and my mum objected.............so we ended up with a lovely Chevette

[interloper]

That's a cracking looking Capri. oddly I passed a yellow mark three on Saturday afternoon/ evening it was wizzing down the A4 between Hungerford and Newbury. It wasn't you was it?

[sprogthedog]

interloper said:

That's a cracking looking Capri. oddly I passed a yellow mark three on Saturday afternoon/ evening it was wizzing down the A4 between Hungerford and Newbury. It wasn't you was it?

That one lives in Kintbury, just off the A4

[DBSV8]

Flipatron said:

Lovely looking thing.

Why do Capri owners never manage to apply the 'S' stripes correctly??

i thought the same thing , who ever put them on followed the panels with out stepping back and getting the full picture , although its not as noticeable close up

[coopedup]

Very nice, so nearly went with a 2.8i back in the day before buying a Renault 5GTT, big mistake!

[Rsdop]

Stunning. Colour really works well and much prefer the mk2 headlights over the mk3.

[k22wes]

Think i spotted this around wimbourne/bournemouth area last week? If it was it looked very good.

[LanceRS]

Lovely looking car. Only my opinion , but would it look better with mk2 stripes rather than the mk3 ones? It would really set it off against that stunning colour.

[DBSV8]

k22wes said:

Think i spotted this around wimbourne/bournemouth area last week? If it was it looked very good.

yes that would have been me
cheers

[DBSV8]

LanceRS said:

Lovely looking car. Only my opinion , but would it look better with mk2 stripes rather than the mk3 ones? It would really set it off against that stunning colour.

interesting point

heres two factory options





i think i prefer the later mk3 s stripe

however here is how it should have been applied

[chevy55]

Here's my old 3 litre S

[p1doc]

capri's mmmm-my uncle used to have 1 lovely carnippy and spacious and obviously reminded me of professionals as he was in the police lol
martin

[LanceRS]

chevy55 said:

Here's my old 3 litre S

Was that an ex Ford press fleet car?

[Mr Tidy]

OP, you lucky man! 2 fantastic Capris!

I had a 2.8i back in 1984, but had to sell it after a year to buy my first house.

Still a couple of years later I was able to buy another - kept that 2 years which was a long time for me back then!;)

Wish I still had one - I couldn't afford one now!

Did you see that the silver 3.0S out of the Professionals sold for over £50K at Duxford the other week!

[MuscleSaloon]

Mr Tidy said:

Did you see that the silver 3.0S out of the Professionals sold for over £50K at Duxford the other week!

Nice to see them making a few quid - looks like they're finally catching up and even exceeding some of the Escort prices we've become used to seeing.

I do wonder who pays these sort of prices for them though?

Some of the very late 80's prices I remember paying .. £1500 for a really lovely 3.0S - Silver with several nice options fitted from new including fishnet Recaro's, RS steering wheel and wider RS 4 spoke alloys - think they may have been a 7J? .... 2.8i, one of the last non-special cars, done 34k when I bought it and really was still like new, paid somewhere just over £3k for that one ... Sebring Red RS 3100 - don't want to think about that one seeing todays prices!

Edited by MuscleSaloon on Thursday 5th May 23:13