SOTW: Capri 2.0 S
The car you've always promised yourself. Well, nearly.
With Ford's official 40th Birthday shots to remind us of the glamour and desirability of its late-lamented Capri, it's only natural that our appetite has been whetted for 'the car you've always promised yourself'.
So a quick hunt through the PH classifieds has left us pondering a dilemma. Is a £900 2.0 S Capri from the early '80s a suitable receptacle for SOTW cash, or should we be running a mile?
Yep, our cursory trawl has left us confronting the sad fact that a notional £1k won't get us very far if we want to tear up the tarmac in the style of Minder or The Professionals. We can forget about 2.8i and 3.0 models, it seems, and the only immediately obvious rival for the 2.0S highlighted here is an '83 Laser 1.6 we found this morning on Autotrader for £995. That car had us going for a while, thanks largely to a fine additional pair of period spotlamps adorning the quad-lamp grille, but Wikipedia tells us the Laser special edition - which aped some of the styling cues of the 2.8 Injection - was actually introduced in '84. Now we're not experts on Capri history, so we're not about to cast aspersions, but we're not about to risk our fantasy funds on a possible lookey-likey either! Anyway, a bit of subsequent delving into the archives tells us the 2.0S boasts not just the bigger engine, but also some of the suspension enhancements of the sportier 2.8 Injection. A no-brainer then, especially as we're saving £95 on the asking price to boot.
Ford Capri 2.0 Sport (1983)
Here is my beloved 2.0s capri, in the rare paris blue colour. car has mot test untill october ,NO TAX. car is in very good condition for age various tiny scratches on car could do wiv new rear arches and a good spray job, various patches of filler all over vehicle had a new dash fitted wiv no cracks, everything works how it should sunroof could do wiv looking at but nothing major and the headlining needs refitting, brakes could do with a bleed clutch is high but still works fine this car would not take alot to put it back to perfect, starts and drives first time everytime its been in a garage for the last 6 months, the engine sound and runs brand new no noises from gearbox or diff the only reason im selling this caris beacuse im moving house and havent got the space for her if your after a capri which needs a tiny bit of tlc to put back to perfect then this is the one for you. £900.
theap
It doesn't look rusty.
The paint is rubbish, the bumpers/trim worse.
Interior sounds tired, at very best, even given the age.
No mention of any recent work.
£300 tops. IF you really, really wanted it and it came with 12 months ticket.
The rest of his waffle is not worth £600.
I'm of the generation which ought to venerate the Capri but I've always thought they were sh*t, even back in the day. Keep the cash and spend £2k next week instead...
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