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Old 5th March 2021, 19:37   #1
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I've been looking for an early 70's MK3 Capri ever since I got hold of the laser, and low and behold I was lucky enough to find this one.

She is a 1979 Ford Capri 1.6L in cosmos blue with the original LW/MW radio, she will be 42 years young in just a few days time, blooming amazing really, she even comes with that 70's car smell.

Tax and MOT exempt and just £60 classic car insurance. WooHoo! I just cant believe I'm driving a Capri on the road legally for the grand sum of just £60.

She takes me right back to my youth...





They make a right pair, reminds me of that Milky way chocolate bar advert... The red car and the blue car has a race.

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Old 5th March 2021, 20:34   #2
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My mate's first car was a Capri, what a heap it was! You'd be doing well to get a magnet to attach anywhere on the bodywork. I was getting out of it one day, a bolt sheared on the seat and I ended up flat on my back looking at the (rather manky) headliner.
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Old 5th March 2021, 20:46   #3
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My mate's first car was a Capri, what a heap it was! You'd be doing well to get a magnet to attach anywhere on the bodywork. I was getting out of it one day, a bolt sheared on the seat and I ended up flat on my back looking at the (rather manky) headliner.
Oh the memories... I had many a girl flat on her back looking at the headliner in my Capri back in the day, including Mrs Dallas...
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Old 5th March 2021, 21:52   #4
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Nice one Wes, I am a massive Capri fan owning two in the eighties, my first was DSF892W a 1.6GL in Tuscan beige, being a GL it had tinted glass, full length centre console with clock, carpeted lower door trim, but the wheels were a plainer style than the earlier rostyle with the chrome embellishers.

My second Capri was B855KSX a Laquer Red 2.0 laser with the optional fog lights below the bumper, it was the car I wished I had kept.
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Old 5th March 2021, 22:57   #5
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Nice one Wes, I am a massive Capri fan owning two in the eighties, my first was DSF892W a 1.6GL in Tuscan beige, being a GL it had tinted glass, full length centre console with clock, carpeted lower door trim, but the wheels were a plainer style than the earlier rostyle with the chrome embellishers.

My second Capri was B855KSX a Laquer Red 2.0 laser with the optional fog lights below the bumper, it was the car I wished I had kept.
Graham, if only we knew then, what we know now.

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Exactly, I would never have sold my Isetta bubble car back in 1975 for £45 !
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Old 6th March 2021, 09:37   #7
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Exactly, I would never have sold my Isetta bubble car back in 1975 for £45!
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I loved my Capri back in the 80's. A MK2 3.0 litre Ghia in Oyster Gold with a brown vinyl roof , Gold upholstery and fake wood dash. I was the kiddy.

Sadly the engine failed a few months into ownership so I bought a reconditioned engine, then a few months later the gearbox lost top gear ( auto) so I bought a scrap manual car for £50 and converted it to manual on a Saturday, it was so easy even the hole for the clutch cable was already there. I then sold the rest of the scrap car and made a profit.

Sadly 18 months later it caught fire outside my house one Saturday, had no idea why but I looked out and there was smoke coming from under the bonnet and luckily my neighbour was a fireman so he saved a total blaze.

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Nice one Wes, I am a massive Capri fan owning two in the eighties, my first was DSF892W a 1.6GL in Tuscan beige, being a GL it had tinted glass, full length centre console with clock, carpeted lower door trim, but the wheels were a plainer style than the earlier rostyle with the chrome embellishers.

My second Capri was B855KSX a Laquer Red 2.0 laser with the optional fog lights below the bumper, it was the car I wished I had kept.
Another former Capri owner here, had a mk2 in Rosso Red a 1.6 GL with a 2.0 engine.SJR430S .The only car I sold for more than I paid for it.
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What amazes me about these old 70's and 80's cars is the price they now fetch, you couldn't give them away at one point, but now stick three zeros after a number 6 or above, and bobs your uncle.

I sold my old Capri's back in the 90's for £100 to £300.

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