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Originally Posted by vacuman
Thanks Rick
The Pop behind featured on the cover of the second issue of Street Machine, back in 1978 and inspired me to build my own. Although living in N.London I became a member of the Essex Popular Front (I mention this because of your location) - nearby to you, Stanford Le Hope was Pop HQ 
Having completed the Pop my girlfriend made a good case for a car of her own so we paid £375* in 1980 for a rust bucket of a Capri and spent a year of nights and weekends on the build. In 81/82 both our cars featured jointly at a number of indoor shows including one in Copenhagen - the organisers gave us a free holiday in Rhodes - cheaper than keeping us in Denmark. Pop was sold to fund our first house in 1984 and the Capri went in 1996. By then it was BMW red with 1600GT/auto from a 1970 Mk1 Capri. Seats were recovered Dolomite Sprint. It's been off the road in storage since I believe.
* today £375 can buy an MOT'd R75. A show quality Capri will fetch over £10k. We sold for £2k. |
Ah that's very close, I'm in Corringham right next to Stanford Le Hope
It's crazy how much the old fords go for now, especially when you think years ago people were buying them as cheap run arounds.
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Love the green dials, never understood why we have digital dials and analogue on such a retro style car.
Back in the 70s you could get BRG light and BRG dark, yours looks like the darker to me.
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It's to keep up with the times, would have looked very out dated if we had analogue mileage and trip readouts on these cars. I personally really like the mix between retro and modern features.