Ford Capri's

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ligloo · #1 Post by **ligloo** » Wed May 18, 2011 11:53 pm

Don't ask me why but 20 yr old stepson has his heart set on one! Does anyone know where there is a decent one (hahaha, I get it) for sale?

Budget is around £2k, red, white or black (rust colour aside)

Ebay and Pistonhead.com gone through btw

Aladinsaneuk · #2 Post by **Aladinsaneuk** » Thu May 19, 2011 5:33 am

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what engine size is he after?

which mark?

I will keep an eye out - I saw a nice looking 1600 laser blue/white the other week for 1200

Falcopops · #3 Post by **Falcopops** » Thu May 19, 2011 6:53 am

Nah go for the 2.8 I think they even did a 3 litre one too, makes them sooooo much easier to crash.

ligloo · #4 Post by **ligloo** » Thu May 19, 2011 8:57 am

He's looking for a 2 litre preferably but a 1.6 would do.

He can get a 2.8 or 3 litre if you pay the insurance Dale

Nooj · #5 Post by **Nooj** » Thu May 19, 2011 9:39 am

Got to be a MkI if he gets one, and he does know they don't go round corners doesn't he?

I'm guessing he's been watching The Professionals in ITV4?

#6 Post by **Kwackerz** » Thu May 19, 2011 12:01 pm

Stick an x pack on the back axle. They corner well after that.
Wide steel rims help (most will be on banger cars by now)

..and rear wheel steering is not a dirty word!

check for rust everywhere. theyre a nightmare for rusting. having had about 8 of them over the years they dont really follow a rusting pattern. sills, boot and bonnet, inner wings arestandard places but they can and do rust all over the place.
check for poor welding underneath. theyre long cars and body flex isnt helped by poor repairs. last thing you need is it falling apart going round a bend.

brilliant cars, love 'em to bits.

Black ones are faster. ditch the standard bumpers and go for the moded look. Opel Manta GTE front bumper/splitter bolts straight on and looks the dog's danglies.

1300's are rare but will be cheap on insurance, then chuck a pinto in and uprate the brakes a few years down the line.

HowardQ · #7 Post by **HowardQ** » Thu May 19, 2011 12:33 pm

I rallied a Mk1 GT (originally an XLR pack) 3 litre with a tuned V6 back in the 70s. I ran it with a full big bore straight through twin exhaust with no front box and just two Jenson Interceptor straight through rear silencers. It sounded even better than the Falco on race cans. Somehow it managed to sound just like the V8 Mustang in "Bullet"
Sadly they brought in noise testing for rallying and they had trouble registering it as it was so loud!

The 3 litre V6s are great if you love going sideways a lot, (nice in a rally car, not for an inexperienced driver on the road).
Steer it with the throttle!
Unfortunately, the heavy V6 motor made it try to understeer quite a lot initially, at that point you slowly backed off to avoid going straight on, or floored it and let the oversteer neutralise everything up. Worked OK if you knew what you were doing and got it exactly right!
If that failed it was down to the hand brake to save you!
If it carried on understeering you went through the scenary forwards.
Give it two much right boot and it went through the scenary backwards.
Get the balance right and you get round the corner on opposite lock.

Mine was a 1970 and it was getting pretty rusty by the mid 70s so can't imagine there will be too many good ones around 40 years later.
Late model 2.8 injection models (were they face lifted Mk IIs or were they Mk IIIs by that time ??), are very nice and there are still some tidy ones around, plus the 2.0 Pinto engined Mk IIs are not too bad, they are cheaper to insure and got thrashed less than the 2.8 V6s in their early years.
The 2.8s were the "getaway" cars of that era, and many got knicked for such use.

TC · #8 Post by TC » Thu May 19, 2011 1:58 pm

HowardQ wrote: The 2.8s were the "getaway" cars of that era, and many got knicked for such use.

They were also used as plain enforcement cars by the Police

We had the MKII 3 litre versions and then went over to the 2.8 and they were tremendous fun excpet when the conditions were damp. They had so much torque, as soon as you floored the throttle the rear wheels would spin up fighting to get traction.

I was out in our red Capri one night when I pulled another 2.8 for something or other. Spoke to the driver, booked him or whatever, got back in the car and drove off. I sudeenly thought, "Wheres my hat? Where is the radio?, where are my blues and two's? (Strobe lights behind the grill) and then it dawned on me, I had the keys to my car in my pocket, I had got into the offenders car and driven off leaving him with an unmarked Police car (but fortunately with no keys), and so I had to back pedal a bit smartish and offer prefuse apologies and tear up the ticket I had just given him as way of compensation

Shortly after I married we brought a 1.6 Crappy. It was that bad, everytime we parked it anywhere we would leave the keys in it in the hope that it would be stolen. Never happened. Father in law even borrowed it and stuffed it into a ditch and still couldn't write the thing off

Eventually part exed it for £50

Sorry, I digressed

Samray · #9 Post by **Samray** » Thu May 19, 2011 2:03 pm

You were ahead of your time confiscating/impounding cars TC?

ligloo · #10 Post by **ligloo** » Sat May 21, 2011 2:35 am

Oh dear, I might have to link him to this thread

btw, can you possibly mention if he does appear, the fact we got our immaculate dirt bike returned in a shocking condition! Hmmmm, least he cant make a Capri worse.... rust wise!

ligloo · #11 Post by **ligloo** » Sat May 21, 2011 2:44 am

Nooj wrote:Got to be a MkI if he gets one, and he does know they don't go round corners doesn't he?

I'm guessing he's been watching The Professionals in ITV4?

Do you know you're the 3rd mention to person to mention (so to speak) that he'll end up in a tree as he tries to take a corner, I have no idea, I'm too young to remember how they drove, I just remember the look of 'em lol

still a fail imo ( soz Jud, if you're reading) lol

The fact is, he works for his money, has it available, has fallen in love with them and he could go out tomorrow and lose a lot more money on his choice. IF at the end of the day he loses £2k, that's nowt to the £4/5k that many 'young 'uns' lose on a 'newer' model sommat x

#12 Post by **Kwackerz** » Sat May 21, 2011 6:58 am

My first proper car was a 2.0s capri when i was 17. Im still here and never stacked it. im sure he'd be fine.

Falcorob · #13 Post by **Falcorob** » Sat May 21, 2011 8:37 pm

I had a 2.0L Laser in black and loved it. Until a wife and 3 kids got in the way. Only 2 back seats you see. So if he's got more than 3 mates he'll need something else.

figaro · #14 Post by **figaro** » Sun May 22, 2011 6:12 am

I had a MK1 2.0 V4 and a MK11 2.0S. Great cars!

Here's a nice looking 1.6 for a sensible price...

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/1982-FORD-CAPRI-L ... 2c5cd74b1d

ligloo · #15 Post by **ligloo** » Sun May 22, 2011 12:22 pm

Thanks, have passed on the links. He's got a couple lined up to go and see!