New machine!

[JonnyBoy]

Last night I drove 600 miles to Lymington and back to pick up this beast:

:worship:

The photo's a bit ****e as it was taken at 11pm somewhere on the London end of the M1. I got this '87 Capri 2.0 Laser for £300, and other than the odd electrical gremlin and a few bits of surface rust, it's in fantastic condition
It's even MoT'd until next November and taxed until March, and the only prob on it's 260-mile trip up to Sheffield was a leak from the fuel return pipe which the AA sorted. It's my project car; I'm going to fix all the electrical faults (temp gauge, heater, fog lights...), tidy the rusty bits and the paintwork up, and either sell it or hold onto it for when I'm out of uni.


It's not a Fiat, but how cool is this car!!

 

[sammiboo]

nice one jb - bet it shifts

 

[serin]

Fight the urge to drive through stacked cardboard boxes!!!

i LOVE capris, ever since my bro had one when i was young AHHHHHH.....the memories side exiit zorsts, air scoop through the bonnet, the HUGE rear wheels and the weelie bars *teary eyed* i miss that car

 

[gadge]

Nice job! it's certainly up there in the retro coolness

 

[Alex]

nice one... could have had the 3.0 essex for 200 notes more though! Still looks v. tidy. probably best to re-wire most of the car, 'cos ford cabling is crap, and they always put their wires in stupid places!

 

[HP]

Niiiiiice, just go careful on wet roundabouts!

 

[JonnyBoy]

Serin, was your bro's Capri by any chance a drag racer, what with the wheelie bars and everything?!
The Capri is a bit "lively" if you boot it mid-corner, that's part of the fun I'd have liked to get a V6 one but in the same condition as this one you're talking a lot of money, plus I'd probably kill myself in one of those and the 2-litre shifts well enough
My mate came with me to drive the Capri home (he's insured on any car, I'm not) and he was hitting over 100 on the motorway with no effort and without flooring it, he reckons it's quick and his own car is a 180bhp Escort RS Turbo!

 

[arseofbox]

Hmm, its leaf sprung yu know....

Its cool..I think that'd look schveet im black with plenty of chrome!

 

[serin]

i dont think it was a PROPER drag racer, he took it to santa pod a few times tho, but it was road legal, but then i was only little, but it was the first modded car i saw

 

[J333EVO]

Nice car mate, always liked the Crapi's in the blue or stratos silver. Got a mate from my school days who is obsessed by them, hes had every thing from a rare (read very very slow) MK2 3 speed 1.6 auto, to a 2.8 Brooklands. The 2L tho was always my favourite, not as heavy up front as the 2.8/3L's are, but still got enough poke to put a smile on your face.

Engine has huge potential as its the 2L Pinto block if I'm correct, which likes twin Webber's and head work!!!! It really pays off to fix the suspension out as there are a multitude of bushes in the front suspension which are its bug bear come MOT time.

Fun car to learn all about controlling oversteer in

 

[Steven]

Even I love Capris. (hear that Paul)

Enjoy it, and take it handy until you get used to the RWD. It's very very easy to stuff one of those through a hedge!

 

[The Negotiator]

Woh woh woh woh! Nice car JB BUT did everybody see what Steve just wrote?

I have screenshotted it just incase his drugs wear off

 

[Steven]

Don't get me wrong. I wouldn't cry if you put it through a hedge. It's only an old Ford. It doesn't have soul like an old Alfa. Just so we're clear on my position!

 

[Neofolis]

I used to like the MK1 3.0 GXL with a nice vinyl roof. That was nearly 30 years ago though. Now I hate all fords with a passion, I don't even care, if they are good or look nice. Ford's have done me too much wrong for me to ever forgive them, they are the spawn of satan and should all be parked on dodgy council estates and burnt.

I had a mate who had an E reg 280 special, that got totally obliterated by an Uno Turbe, so there. I should add that I hold no affinity to the Uno Turbo either, but I did enjoy that.

 

[Alex]

Even I love Capris. (hear that Paul)

Enjoy it, and take it handy until you get used to the RWD. It's very very easy to stuff one of those through a hedge!

Not as easy as my dads old 1989 M3! . I didn't do it (too young to drive when we had it), but I've seen a fair few getting arse ****ed by hedges.

Congrats again on your new purchase JB... are you planning on going to the ford fair next year?

 

[Liam]

Oi JB! Shut it! Couldn't resist mate!

My bro also had a Capri, see a pattern here Serin? Had an Arthur Daley sticker on it, loved the two door, low slungness of it but I was only 8 or somehting so I would have!

Not too keen on them now but bonus points to JB for rescuing an old school motor.

Good Luck

Liam

 

[JonnyBoy]

Cheers for the comments everyone

I'm planning on taking the Capri to a large, quiet and ideally slightly damp car park one night to get myself used to the way it handles. If I tried to give it beans on a roundabout then it's quite likely that, being used to driving a front-drive Punto, I'd boot the Capri mid-corner and suddenly find myself facing in the opposite direction and quite possibly becoming intimate with the local roadside vegatation mind it's not really going to be driven for a while while I sort out the electrics and some of the bodywork.

That Pinto engine is just begging for a little light tuning Over time, and funds allowing, I'm aiming to fit a K&N, a hotter cam (more than likely a Kent one), a high-flow exhaust manifold and possibly have the head polished and ported. That lot should make it just about impossible to drive in the wet