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I find it interesting that it seems the Classic Capri is always compared to the Cortina (which was a very good car for its day), however if we were to look at the Anglia, Consul Classic, Cortina & Corsair, I don't think any of those (with modern underpinnings) would sell today, but build the Classic Capri with modern underpinnings would sell, today it still looks a modern design.
🎉I've had a ford classic and a ford capri 1500cc GT in white with mettalic blue roof loved that caruntill a lorry hit me up the arse and wrote of but I've still got the centre console with the rev counter temp gauge and oil pressure gauge
Lovely looking car but the 1340cc engine was a disaster major crank problems with the 3 bearing hollow cast iron crank. The 1200cc engine for the first cortina wasn’t much better. It wasn’t till the 5 bearing 1500cc engine came out it solved some of fords engine problem. I remember the first V6s with the fibre camwheel a disaster for ford.
I had a classic as my first car.It was in blue. Thing l remembered is l could polish that car and see my face in it when finished 1500 cc and run on the roughest of 2 star petrol at the time. I loved that car , the ride was wonderful. I knew nothing about cars as a teenager. But the lines were incredible it just flowed . Should ford produce a car like this again. The answer is yes. Gone are the days when you could tell what a make was by its shape. Now unless you see a badge and name you haven't a clue. There is an old saying. You have to go back to go forward. Ford could do this. Classic lines and upto date engine running gear. Plus safety of modern cars . Yes, Ford capri ,classic. Flowing lines with the modern engine etc. Could be a winner. Get away from the fag packet match box configuration of modern cars.
I remember seeing what I think was a Mk2 Capri, with that ghastly pressing on the sides, having been removed and made flat by a clever body-worker, and thought it should have been built like that from the start.! Although they are still very expensively priced.!
incredibly pretty cars. i used to see em abandoned in the late 70s but i couldn't believe they were Capri's and thought they were knock offs as they looked nothing like the 70s Capri
In one of the episodes of Bergerac, there is a 'normal' placed gearstick in the car, does that mean it had been modified for some reason or was there an era of these that did not have the column shift gearstick? Does anyone know? Just wondered.
I owned 500FWW from 1987 to 1989. Covered 9000 miles in it. Sold it to a guy from the lake district. Bought for £3360. Sold for £4000. As I was demonstrating everything works the l/h quarterlight mounting pin broke. The aftermarket trimrings were date stamped 1964. The overriders have been added after 1989. Interesting that the car was at a dealership for 16 years. May explain why Corrina GT badges had been put on front wings (now removed) I loved that car.
Its because new cars are so awfully styled. So when you go back to an era when cars were styled beautifully, the comparison is immediate. I can think of many others eg the original VW sirocco. The latest one is so ugly. The Lancia beta coupe or spyder and Lancia Monte Carlo. The fiat X1/9. So many cars. I lived in the USA for a while and had a 1987 Potiac Firebird, again beautifully styled - and so cheap !!
I was a Graduate apprentice at Ford in 1961 and with others were required to drive these cars in the Ford "Leave it About Campaign". On the day of the launch we had to collect a brand new Capri each and drive it and leave at key locations where as many people as possible could see it. Then we had to drive the car around towns and other urban areas to make sure as many people as possible saw it on launch day. I took mine to London Bridge station and stayed outside the station for as long as I could before being "moved on" by the police. However I came back later and was not moved again. I then drove the car around the West End and the City occasionally parking up.. As soon as I stopped there were dozens of interest pedestrians crowding around me. I belive the car was in fact the idea of Sir Patrick Hennessy the chairman of Ford UK at that time.
I never managed to own a Consul Capri but did own two Consul Classic’s. My 1963 Ermine White Classic 116E 4 door was a beautiful looking car with its silver and blue two tone leather interior. And the 1961 1340cc Maroon 4 door Classic was also very attractive when highly polished, that had a vinyl interior. I always thought they were built to a much higher standard than the Cortina and the Anglia.
Absolutely beautiful cars - Capris were always one of my favourite Fords. [I had a lovely 1959 MK11 Consul for many years]. My father was an avid 'Ford man' - he had a MK1 Consul, 105E Anglia, MK1 Cortina estate, MK1 Cortina 1500 'Super' and MK11 Capri. My brother and I always wanted him to buy a Consul Capri, and although he liked them, it wasn't really practical for our family. He went for the very newly released MK1 Cortina Estate instead - which got a lot of admiring looks as nobody else had one where we lived.
A guy where I worked in 1977/1978 had a bright red Consul Capri. It was in fairly good condition and is the only one I have ever seen. It also had a distinctive registration plate, i think the first letter was T, but the last three or perhaps even four digits were 0000. A beautiful car. At the same time, An old guy a few doors from me owned an immaculate Consul Classic in maroon colour, again a beautiful car and not commonly seen. I do not recall the engine size but it was old D registration 1966, this is rather odd given the reported end of manufacture date, maybe it was a showroom backhanger or just reregistered for some reason.
The sad loss of Kieran on 5th October 2020 means we will not see the many musical collaborations , including this one, again. Sing his songs and say his name.
I worked in the Styling Department under Roy Brown. In the late 1950s work was still being carried out on the" Sun Bird" as it was known. I arranged for the heater bezel to be engraved by my father who was an heraldic hand engraver. This car was especially made for Charlot Ford who was at a finishing school in France some time around the early 1960s. Sir Patrick Hennesy was very taken by the car but the economics of substitution of models saw its demise.
