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So these are my first and second cars. The first was a 1978 Mk3 Capri, 1.6 engine courtesy of Burtons which was a flyer :shock: Owned it for a couple of years until I was involved in an accident which was just as much my fault as the third parties. Stripped her down and of she went to the crushinator :cry:

 

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This was of course back in the day it was cheaper to re shell than repair :roll:

 

After that I found a 1975 1.6 JPS Capri. Nice and genuine including the factory black headlining, black and gold rialto seating and black bumpers amongst others. She was tatty but complete and needed a new floorpan on the drivers side and a pair of new sills and new front wings which she duly got :) Ended up matt black for a while too. Also treated to a clean up of the wheels which were proper tatty and a 4 spoke RS steering wheel. Engine swapped out of the silver one, Burton exhaust, quickshift, quickrack, bilsteins etc etc. No expense spared and then rallied at every opportunity :lol:

That one ended up getting crushed between a bus and a transit and was left looking like a banana. After that I went on to Mantas and other stuff (hey at least I stayed RWD) and here I am full circle looking for a Capri again :D

 

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I thought I had pics of the JPS written off but cant find them but it was proper shagged! Still got parts from it knocking about somewhere :lol:

 

So who wants to sell me a mint Mk 3 3.0 S then??? I promise i'll look after it better as i'm not 18 and stupid any more :wink:

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