Finishing the basics

Well, to follow up from my last post first, after chatting to a chappy from the Capri Club International at the Classic Motorshow this weekend, it turns out that later Mk3’s were fitted with front arch panels to stop the wing filling up with debris … and conveniently CCI sell a repro for 42 quid for the…

Gotta get my hands dirty sometime…

Well, it’s always the way – get a new toy, spend more time at work instead of playing with the toy  Anyways, to catch up on what’s happened since last time, I’ve; discovered that the local motor factors are useless – wrong rotor arm, condenser and rocker seal gunked the engine – will need another…

Back to the test station

        Woohoo, it’s passed second time round  Mr MOT had a look at the welding and said “Oh, that’s nice to see, that is. Proper old-timer’s welding – you don’t see much of that nowadays.” It was nice to be able to tell him that the chap who’d done it was (at most) half his…

Let’s fix that sill

Well, to answer one of my own questions, the discs are the drain plugs for the wheel well, which, for reasons best known to Ford are metal. Quite why you’d put a metal plug in a metal hole in a bath of water and then expect your customer to remember to pull the plug out…

Introducing the Ford Capri project

Welcome to my Mk3 , a 1980 2.0GL with 51k on the clock… Having picked up this little beauty last weekend as a spare car plaything, I’ve built up a small list of goals that I want to achieve with it; Get an M.O.T. Give it a full service and learn what all the oily…