Capri mk1 and Facelift original Ford Brochures. Enjoy
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Some nigh on 32 years ago I got to own my first fast car. A 3000 GXL at 18 was good news. Sebring red with a beige vinyl roof. Taught me how to drive or stay alive depending on your prospective. The chap I bought it from lived across the road from my father. He went and bought an e-type Jag. Series 1 drop top from memory. He gave me the brochures when I bought the car. His mum had a mk1 1600GT that they never sold although I doubt she is alive today. The mother that is. I sold it a few years later to a mate I went to school with. I kept all the original service pack etc. that came with the car. He did not keep it long and sold it to a couple of hoodlums that I also knew. I hope you find the info useful 
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Edited by graemel on Thursday 3rd February 23:49
A Fantastic read. Amazeing that you still have the Orig Purchase Receipt ! Do you have a Body Colour/Paint Chart for the GXL ?
Was your car Originally fitted with a White Vinle Roof ? The Sales Brochure only mentions Black or Tobacco for Vinle roofs ?
Only ever seen one other GXL with a White Roof, but could be a later fitment .
Was your car Originally fitted with a White Vinle Roof ? The Sales Brochure only mentions Black or Tobacco for Vinle roofs ?
Only ever seen one other GXL with a White Roof, but could be a later fitment .
neutral 3 said:
A Fantastic read. Amazeing that you still have the Orig Purchase Receipt ! Do you have a Body Colour/Paint Chart for the GXL ?
Was your car Originally fitted with a White Vinle Roof ? The Sales Brochure only mentions Black or Tobacco for Vinle roofs ?
Only ever seen one other GXL with a White Roof, but could be a later fitment .
The original purchase receipt belonged to the chap I bought the car from. It was still in with the handbook etc. when I bought the car from him. Unfortunately no body paint chart I'm afraid. Was your car Originally fitted with a White Vinle Roof ? The Sales Brochure only mentions Black or Tobacco for Vinle roofs ?
Only ever seen one other GXL with a White Roof, but could be a later fitment .
The guy I bought it from was not big into cleaning his cars so it took a lot of polishing to make it look good again. The vinyl roof. Mmmmm it was a very long time ago. I remember it was really filthy and whatever I tried I could not bring it back to life. I know I painted the roof with some materials I bought from these guys, nice to see they are still going http://www.woolies-trim.co.uk/ I think the roof was white but I chose a light beige to make it easier to keep clean. Now I also remember seeing my car at the start of a film when they panned from a height through the BBC car park and I am sure the roof was black originally. They are still great cars. My sister 4 and half years younger than me bought one when she was in her early twenties, triple black and manual. She too likes her cars.
That brings back some memories. I bought a Daytona Yellow 1974 3000 GXL when I was 18 back in 1983. I paid £750 for it and I thought I was a real player!! All my mates had Escorts so I did feel slightly superior, however it wasn't a great car and I changed it a year later for a Mk 1 Golf GTi which started a long love affair with German cars.
I can't remember what I paid for the GXL back in 1979 but I can remember paying £230 for third party fire and theft insurance. After the Capri I bought a Mk2 Escort built as a group 4 rally car without an engine and gearbox from the guy I worked for at that time. Topspeed Tuning in Acton. The deal was he would pay to put the 3 litre V6 stage 2 engine (built by Swaymar I think) I kept but it never happened. I sold the escort and wanted a yank. Could not find a decent one with the very limited budget I had. I ended up buying another 3000 GXL. Originally green it had been painted white, with slightly flared arches, brown vinyl roof with a full length webasto. A fully functioning Series 1 Jaguar XJ6 dashboard and completely retrimmed in brown and beigh vinyl and cloth. Janspeed exhaust with two twin tail pipes, appliance mags and triple webbers.
Bloody unreliable piece if aggro. In fact when I started dating my mates older sister who is still my other half today I used to have to borrow mates cars to take her out in. The first date we had I borrowed her brothers Ford Fiesta. It wasn't an XR2 but I think it was a 1300 with goodies on it. We arrived at the pub and she says do you always drive so fast. I was on best behaviour at the time. Too many years living with a lunatic has rubbed of on her. She has her own 993 C2S. Good girl.
Bloody unreliable piece if aggro. In fact when I started dating my mates older sister who is still my other half today I used to have to borrow mates cars to take her out in. The first date we had I borrowed her brothers Ford Fiesta. It wasn't an XR2 but I think it was a 1300 with goodies on it. We arrived at the pub and she says do you always drive so fast. I was on best behaviour at the time. Too many years living with a lunatic has rubbed of on her. She has her own 993 C2S. Good girl.
Ha, £230 squid, to insure a 3 Litre Capri.....those were the days !
In Jan 82, i sold my Beloved Z900 Kwacka and bought my First Car, a Lovely Yellow 72 Pre face lift 3000GT, EVC-289L,which cost me £550 and another £550 to insure!!!
Had her up on 2 wheels at 100 on a motorway, then she went round and round and round.....how she didnt go over ...i still dont know.
In Jan 82, i sold my Beloved Z900 Kwacka and bought my First Car, a Lovely Yellow 72 Pre face lift 3000GT, EVC-289L,which cost me £550 and another £550 to insure!!!
Had her up on 2 wheels at 100 on a motorway, then she went round and round and round.....how she didnt go over ...i still dont know.
neutral 3 said:
Ha, £230 squid, to insure a 3 Litre Capri.....those were the days !
In Jan 82, i sold my Beloved Z900 Kwacka and bought my First Car, a Lovely Yellow 72 Pre face lift 3000GT, EVC-289L,which cost me £550 and another £550 to insure!!!
Had her up on 2 wheels at 100 on a motorway, then she went round and round and round.....how she didnt go over ...i still dont know.
back in 1986 my first car was a 1973 3 litre GXL it cost 700 from a mate and was 300 to insure, In Jan 82, i sold my Beloved Z900 Kwacka and bought my First Car, a Lovely Yellow 72 Pre face lift 3000GT, EVC-289L,which cost me £550 and another £550 to insure!!!
Had her up on 2 wheels at 100 on a motorway, then she went round and round and round.....how she didnt go over ...i still dont know.
Here it is before selling it last year
and my current project track day fast road car originaly a 1970 3000 E then converted to 2.8i turbo technics , current engine gearbox was sold , shes now undergoing an LS7 conversion , She had a bare metal repray a few years ago and was converted to facelift rear/ front panels , structuraly ive never seen a Capri in such good shape with no sign of the dreaded tin worm.
colour is Subaru blue
My 1st car in 1979 was a Capri. Just a 1600xl mk1 (don't have a picture sadly). It was an absolute shed which my girlfriend at the time refused to ride in due to damp seats and carpets (the rubber seals had perished). Funny thing with Capri's though (and those who've owned them will understand this) despite all their faults, if you like them you always want another one. Six years after that Mk 1 I was mad keen to buy a 2.8 injection (as the original 4 speed versions were referred to). I must have looked at at least 10 and they were all in s
t order or clocked or both. I particularly remember one at a dealers in Doncaster which was described as immaculate and found to have chunks missing from the seats and headrests. Turned out the previous owners dog had chewed it. When I queried this with the dealer who placed the advert he replied 'That's nowt lad, just fair wear and tear'. Bought a new XR2 instead. Even now I still look at Capri adverts...
Mark.
t order or clocked or both. I particularly remember one at a dealers in Doncaster which was described as immaculate and found to have chunks missing from the seats and headrests. Turned out the previous owners dog had chewed it. When I queried this with the dealer who placed the advert he replied 'That's nowt lad, just fair wear and tear'. Bought a new XR2 instead. Even now I still look at Capri adverts...Mark.
nalaeroom said:
Luv that Norman Reeves receipt !!
Look at the trade in price on a 3 year old 1600E...!! Shows how much less cars depreciated back then to today.A new 1600E was £980 in 1968, so it's barely lost 25-30% in 3 years.
I bet you'd be lucky to get offered 50% of the new price on an eqivilent Mondeo at 3 years old from a Ford dealer today.
aeropilot said:
Look at the trade in price on a 3 year old 1600E...!! Shows how much less cars depreciated back then to today.
A new 1600E was £980 in 1968, so it's barely lost 25-30% in 3 years.
I bet you'd be lucky to get offered 50% of the new price on an eqivilent Mondeo at 3 years old from a Ford dealer today.
Yeah but who WANTS a mundano? A new 1600E was £980 in 1968, so it's barely lost 25-30% in 3 years.
I bet you'd be lucky to get offered 50% of the new price on an eqivilent Mondeo at 3 years old from a Ford dealer today.
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