Two photographs...33 years apart....

[Wacky Racer]

...1979

...2012


Ribblehead Viaduct/Settle-Carlisle line....North Yorkshire.

[Bohally]

Cool

[RegMolehusband]

The sheep in the background has evolved into a bloke in 33 years!

[Bill]

Your Capri's nearly rusted away

[Chris Peacock]

That bike is F ing lovely.


Great pics also BTW.

[wiliferus]

Is it just me or has the hill/mountain in the background got shorter and flatter?

Lovely bike BTW

[knotweed]

Brilliant. That used to be one of my favourite places to stop for a picnic

[Codswallop]

RegMolehusband said:

The sheep in the background has evolved into a bloke in 33 years!

The sign is growing rather nicely too. Lovely bike btw.

[Rubin215]

Eeeerm, someone's had it away with your crapi (car) and left a crappy (motorbike) behind...

[Lexual]

...seeing the first pic I was expecting to see the same capri in the second pic...



..disappointed

[Wacky Racer]

wiliferus said:

Is it just me or has the hill/mountain in the background got shorter and flatter?

Lovely bike BTW

You mean Whernside,(2415ft) one of the Yorkshire three peaks along with nearby Ingleborough and Pen-y-Ghent?

I expect it's just the same as it was a thousand years ago...

[Number 5]

Thank you for sharing

[Wacky Racer]

quiraing said:

That Capri Mk3 1.6GL has been modified over the past 33 years. Yes I am an old-Ford anorak, but I can tell the subtle changes. Nice resto though.

My Capri in the photograph was about a month old at the time.....

Here's my previous one, a 1978 Mk3 3.0S...

[storminnorman]

Great area that. Thanks for the pics, need to get up there when it warms up

[smartphone hater]

Wacky Racer said:

wiliferus said:

Is it just me or has the hill/mountain in the background got shorter and flatter?

Lovely bike BTW

You mean Whernside,(2415ft) one of the Yorkshire three peaks along with nearby Ingleborough and Pen-y-Ghent?

I expect it's just the same as it was a thousand years ago...

I certainly doesn't look the same. If you follow the line of the hill from the left it gets to that knobbly bit & then just doesn't get much higher, in the first pic it goes about twice as high after the knobbly bit.

Aliens?

[RumpleFugly]

Did you specifically ask the man in the background to wear a white top and black trousers?

[Wacky Racer]

smartphone hater said:

I certainly doesn't look the same. If you follow the line of the hill from the left it gets to that knobbly bit & then just doesn't get much higher, in the first pic it goes about twice as high after the knobbly bit.

Aliens?

[quiraing]

Ahh, the 3-litre Capri!! Can still hear the rasp of a cammed-up Essex V6 running a Holley 390 through freeflow twin tailpipes.

Had a 78 V6 Ghia manual BSE325S and a warmed-up(!!!!!!) Mk3 3.1S JHS15T years ago. Several others and some 2.8s but they just weren't the same.

[noell35]

smartphone hater said:

Wacky Racer said:

wiliferus said:

Is it just me or has the hill/mountain in the background got shorter and flatter?

Lovely bike BTW

You mean Whernside,(2415ft) one of the Yorkshire three peaks along with nearby Ingleborough and Pen-y-Ghent?

I expect it's just the same as it was a thousand years ago...

I certainly doesn't look the same. If you follow the line of the hill from the left it gets to that knobbly bit & then just doesn't get much higher, in the first pic it goes about twice as high after the knobbly bit.

Aliens?

Same hill, different angle. Looks like the first shot with the Capri is a bit before the junction as the sign is one advising there's a right turn up ahead whereas the later picture is actually at the junction.

Or am I stating the bleeding obvious? Waits for Parrot

[Wacky Racer]

noell35 said:

Same hill, different angle. Looks like the first shot with the Capri is a bit before the junction as the sign is one advising there's a right turn up ahead whereas the later picture is actually at the junction.

Or am I stating the bleeding obvious? Waits for Parrot

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