RE: SOTW: Ford Capri Mk3

[HAB]

y282 said:

put my 24v one up for sale briefly about a year ago then took it down again. it's sat in the f***ing garage ever since. lovely to look at but so conspicuous. just never use it anymore.

Love it. Such a good looking car.

[Negative Creep]

Loved these as a kid and still really want one. Shame the 6 cylinder versions are so expensive these days. Yes it would almost certainly be a bit rubbish to drive but I honestly wouldn't care.

Oh and can someone please make a new version?

[y282]

Negative Creep said:

Loved these as a kid and still really want one. Shame the 6 cylinder versions are so expensive these days. Yes it would almost certainly be a bit rubbish to drive but I honestly wouldn't care.

Oh and can someone please make a new version?

this.

and not a fking cougar, probe or focus base. a proper rwd, 2 door car for men that still look at boobs and whatnot.

i moved from the capri to an s14a, to e36 coupes. they're been the closest descendants in recent years but a good, pretty rwd ford would be a big shot in the arm right now for men who still like driving proper cars but haven't just stolen a lot of money from the government under the guise of a bailout.

yours, G. Hunt.

[Dunk76]

y282 said:

Negative Creep said:

Loved these as a kid and still really want one. Shame the 6 cylinder versions are so expensive these days. Yes it would almost certainly be a bit rubbish to drive but I honestly wouldn't care.

Oh and can someone please make a new version?

this.

and not a fking cougar, probe or focus base. a proper rwd, 2 door car for men that still look at boobs and whatnot.

i moved from the capri to an s14a, to e36 coupes. they're been the closest descendants in recent years but a good, pretty rwd ford would be a big shot in the arm right now for men who still like driving proper cars but haven't just stolen a lot of money from the government under the guise of a bailout.

yours, G. Hunt.

If you mean 'someone build a rwd coupe that's more manly than drinking Heineken at an Iron Maiden gig' - they already do; it's called the 350Z. Big engine in the nose, RWD, skittish handling, not much else. Drives exactly like a slightly oversized S14a (without the spikey turbo delivery).

However, if you mean 'someone build another coupe with live axle, leaf springs, wheezy low specific output engine, questionable build quality and liable to rust big coupe using 90% mechanicals from a saloon car' then I believe our Special Friends over the pond have quite a large selection at low prices.

[Negative Creep]

Thing is Ford already make a rhd, rwd muscle car (although admittedly a 4 door). Surely it wouldn't be that hard to use that platform to make a coupe from? They could even fit smaller engines to suit our fuel prices and taxation levels

Edited by Negative Creep on Sunday 24th October 15:48

[Dunk76]

Why didn't Ford follow suit when Vauxhall brought the Holden over?

[BILL PAYER]

Id say the nearest things we have had to a Capri since it went out of production have all come out of Japan.things like the Supra .Nissan 350z and various other rwd coupe designs imo

[northeee]

to bad i did not fill my drive up with MK2 escorts and capris 20 years ago .
my mate in 1987 paid £1200 for a mint mexico ,THEY COST SOOOOOO MUCH TO BUY NOW
and rwd is so much more fun to drive.

[jimroyale]

2010 minus 1987 = ...not 33, 10 years MOT. Seller must be on smack.

[y282]

Dunk76 said:

y282 said:

Negative Creep said:

Loved these as a kid and still really want one. Shame the 6 cylinder versions are so expensive these days. Yes it would almost certainly be a bit rubbish to drive but I honestly wouldn't care.

Oh and can someone please make a new version?

this.

and not a fking cougar, probe or focus base. a proper rwd, 2 door car for men that still look at boobs and whatnot.

i moved from the capri to an s14a, to e36 coupes. they're been the closest descendants in recent years but a good, pretty rwd ford would be a big shot in the arm right now for men who still like driving proper cars but haven't just stolen a lot of money from the government under the guise of a bailout.

yours, G. Hunt.

If you mean 'someone build a rwd coupe that's more manly than drinking Heineken at an Iron Maiden gig' - they already do; it's called the 350Z. Big engine in the nose, RWD, skittish handling, not much else. Drives exactly like a slightly oversized S14a (without the spikey turbo delivery).

However, if you mean 'someone build another coupe with live axle, leaf springs, wheezy low specific output engine, questionable build quality and liable to rust big coupe using 90% mechanicals from a saloon car' then I believe our Special Friends over the pond have quite a large selection at low prices.

350z doesn't do it for me i'm afraid. great car but there's something a bit too lardy about them, style wise. personal taste, of course.

[Riggers]

150bhp said:

"Shed promised itself that this week it would escape from the 'me' decade"....Since when has Shed been a person, thought SOTW was the car?

I've often written SOTW in a way that implies Shed is a person (though mostly in the sub-headline) - I guess it comes from a need to get out a little more...

If it helps, I've always assumed that Shed is the 'person', a shed (no capital) is a car on sale for less than a grand, and SOTW is both the name for the feature and the featured car itself.

Now, where are my pills...?

[fatboy18]

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No idea how to load up pics from google

But I do remember these doing rather well...Click on the link

[RV8]

An old friend had a 2.8i which was original but rough so we spent our weekends rubbing the paint down to bare metal and then gave it a re-spray. I used to enjoy going out in that car and we had some great road trips. I did a doovla search and it's off the road / Sorn'd now. It was a fairly early one with a four speed box and pepperpots, at the time my friend was considering fitting princess four pot calipers to the front to aid braking performance but most trips to the scrappy turned out fruitless.
The prices of old fords have started to escalate quite radically in the last few years, I can only put this down to the people who used to own them have more disposable cash and have pangs of nostalgia (which is at least half right in my case) to take a punt on them.
I had always fancied a mk1 capri personally but they are fetching a fair whack now, actually, I remember when you could pick up any mark of capri reasonably easily for less than a grand, £500 would get you one with rotten A-pillars and strut tops, you'll pay three times that now for any of the vee engined versions. Thankfully they haven't gone the way of early escorts which seem to have exceeded most european classic fords, it's bonkers what a rotten 2 door escort will fetch now - whack some blister arches and mexico stripes on a Mk1 escort and people seem happy to pay a premium.

[fatboy18]

Remember, remember the black louvre rear windows



My first car

Edited by fatboy18 on Monday 25th October 19:39

[DickyC]

It was 1972, I was 18, and my brother and I were helping our parents fit out a shop in a shopping centre Reading (it was The Butts Centre, it's now Broad Street Mall). I was thin, had long hair, was denim clad and, on this occasion because of the shop fitting, was very scruffy even by my scruffy standards. We needed to move some stuff and I was sent to get the old fella's car. As I went into the shopping centre's car park I passed a family to hear myself being pointed out to the children by their loud dad as exactly the sort of degenerate he hoped they wouldn't be turning into. When I got into and drove away in a brand new metallic green 2000GT Capri, this poor guy's face was a study.

Ha!

[Stevie Mojo]

OllieC said:

Having owned a 1.6, a few 2 litres and 2.8i, you need at least a 2 litre, the 1.6 is just tooo slow

heres my curent 2.0s :



standard 2.0s, apart from the wheels.

needs more powerrrrr

Beautiful! Shame it isn't a 3.0.

[Stevie Mojo]

y282 said:

put my 24v one up for sale briefly about a year ago then took it down again. it's sat in the f***ing garage ever since. lovely to look at but so conspicuous. just never use it anymore.





great cars, but you wouldn't want it as a daily, theyre just too old now.

Edited by y282 on Saturday 23 October 22:41

Love this too. Can't see why it wouldn't be perfect as a daily!

[RV8]

Stevie Mojo said:

y282 said:

put my 24v one up for sale briefly about a year ago then took it down again. it's sat in the f***ing garage ever since. lovely to look at but so conspicuous. just never use it anymore.





great cars, but you wouldn't want it as a daily, theyre just too old now.

Edited by y282 on Saturday 23 October 22:41

Love this too. Can't see why it wouldn't be perfect as a daily!

They are ok but in comparison to a modern car they are often more thirsty and don't deliver the same performance for the economy mainly the issue is that they rot when the roads are salted and I'm not talking about scruffy rust that some people who don't know what they are talking about call "surface rust" I mean mot fail type rust to the A pillars, strut tops, sills and suspension mounting points. The blower motors fail on the capri quite often now they are older, so come winter time you cant see properly without continuously wiping the screen while you freeze your nuts off. Old cars can and will leak so you end up with a wet carpet which exacerbates the rust issue and the mist forming on the windows. Not so much of an issue with a capri as other classics but on most old cars you cant just pop into fords and pick up a new 'whatever' you need to search the web or rely on the generosity of a club member.
I have driven classics as dailies, my landy is a an 80's relic, and old cars can be trouble, often they are not, but at the same time rather rewarding even if they get the hump occasionally and refuse to do something or develop some quirky habit.
The main thing is that you have to be able to put up with stuff, cars generally have come a long way since the 80's (most of my old dailies were 60's 70's era) modern cars are far easier for most people to live with, even if most modern stuff is a bland and soulless. Wouldn't stop me wanting a classic as a daily though.

[eddie main man]

Great cars !! I had a 2.0litre Cabaret, then a 3.0 Ghia manual, followed by a 2.8i Special (kept of nearly 10yrs) and a LHD Mk1 1300XL. Sold them to buy the Elise 111S. Got the usual jokes, of why, are you mad. Sometimes I regret.

Anyway Ford need to return to their plans to bring back a new one.

[Johnpidge]

Mk 1 Please - 3 litre tuned lump - Oh yea baby!!!!

Had a Mk1 1600 rusty as hell - pale blue with black webasco roof and Rostyles - I suppose the lack of bodywork was why it went so quick?????? (jokin )