i had 3 capris, my first one was xreg 2.8 in silva 4 speed box no limited slip, second was 2.8 blue and silva 5 speed box limited slip, then the Brooklands, loved the capri there a great drive so different to other cars, now i drive a mercedes c63 give me a capri any day ❤️
I was spoiled in that i had the ultimate Capri a Tickford one with all the body kit that sort of fitted in places, but at a distance it looked the part and had if anything too much power when it came to taking corners at speed. The were and still are a highly desirable car that has not aged like some have. I have always found Ford gearboxes to be very good, but some 5 speed ones can be a little notchy. Sarah and Paul make a great team, looking forward to more video's.
Great entertainment, had a Capri 2.0 back in the 80's funny enough a moustache too at the time. You needed a bag of cement in the 2.8 boot in the wet to try and stop it spinning out lol
Haha love these videos. Silly and informative in equal measure. Do like a Capri...think i prefer this generation for the quad headlights. Impressive tash action too. Crabbers one is even colour coded with the inside of her coat...what style! I even forgot she was wearing one after a while. Paul clearly can't carry off a tash 😂
Does anybody remember the Capri Comanche V6 by Jeff Uren? Mr Uren's company "breathed" on other early Fords like the Cortina marks 1/2/3 & possibly 4 (Savage) and the Escort marks 1/2 (Navaho and Apache). Bet there's not many of these left out there.
I was doing a stunt with my Allegro ( yeah I know ) in a pub carpark, when a so-called friend decided to try and sabotage it by kicking the front wheel in the hope that it would straighten up & crash into the only other vehicle in the carpark, a 280 Brooklands. The car was driving itself around in circles in reverse with the choke out, while I sat on a wall ( like an idiot ) smoking. Somewhat panicked by my friend's sudden intervention, I managed to get back into my self-driving Allegro before any potential catastrophe.
I remember the first time I saw a Capri was in 1969, a 3.0 spinning it's wheels up Deptford high street, it greatly impressed this 15 y/o! In the 70's I drove a 2.8i which was nice but a bit of disappointment... The rest of the range was a bit overrated IMHO
I had a few capris mk2 1.6 jps , mk3 2L ghia and a 2.8 injection they were great I loved them but cortina mk3,s were my most favorite…this is odd Sarah looked uncannily like my mate Ozzy with that tash I couldn’t escape it although he never wore glasses if I remember 🤔🤣
Capri is more related to an Escort… Cortina was so different… I had 3, a 1.6L 2.0GL with side linkage gearbox and a 2.0S with a 5 speed but still “crash” reverse when Vauxall were doing sincro’s for years… 😊
Hooray for the capri as it’s outlasted the mustang,who said British cars are crap,oh yea the Americans did,and look at the American car market,it’s collapsed🙏🙏🙏🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
D Reg was the last… a chap I knew had Capris for years n years but after they stopped went Japanese and had a totally different experience at dealers he was expected respected and had treatment second to non… and my personal experience at Ford dealerships…never going there again…. They are terrible! 😊
The last were built on D-reg (19/12/86), but a few made to it E, F and there are even a couple of G-reg Capris (both 280s). I've seen some E-reg 2.8i Specials, which is odd as the last of the line 280 had been on sale for almost a year by then.
I had five Granada’s Mk1’s & 2’s loved them I also had two Capri’s a Mk1 2.0 GT & Mk2 3.0 Ghia terrible things to drive in the wet and winter conditions absolutely lethal and rusted nearly as bad as an Alfasud.😂
Capri was a bit of an embarrassing anachronism by the '80s. You could get the 2.0i S, XR4i or XR4x4 Sierras from '82-ish onwards, which were far more modern in looks, even if the engines were much the same.
So so so much wrong information about the car in this video, also, Roger Clark never campaigned a mk1 capri as a rally car......it was a mk1 escort, please do your research before releasing a video, and if you can only drive the car around an estate at the british car journey.....then I personally wouldn't have bothered, the last time that a 1.6 Kent engine was used in a capri was in 1973! The lad in this video clearly knows nothing about classic fords whatsoever......sorry......but thats a fact.
I had several Capri's in my younger days ranging from a MK1 1.6 ohv to a MK3 2.8 injection.. because of the length, rear wheel drive and power of a 2.8 if you gave it a bit too much gas on bends and roundabouts you were in a spin. Proper driving..
I was hoping you were going to drive one with a stick on hairy chest ,,,,,😊😊looking forward to the next video really good stuff , I work overseas but we did a chocolate run for the chaps in Iraq in the DBS . Wife made a 007 Spoof video ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-veAC7ppA4z4.html thanks
