some of my more recent work

[trikey]

Originally Posted by gadget1960

Hhahaha, I remember having the jack up kit on it's max setting on my Mk2 tina, and then bolting on a red fog light above the red painted rear axle!! what a total clown I must have looked lol.
And all it did was show the world just how rusty my car was underneath.
Customising at it's very best hahaha.

We all did that, don't forget the fibreglass whip aerial!

[gadget1960]

lol ... and the cheapo 'bonnet pins' for that rally look haha.

[handyjackdaniels]

Originally Posted by Rick-sta

Here's a set of xenon quad projector headlights I done with halo rings and DRL strips. The LED DRL strips are set up as daytime running lights which turn on and off automatically with the ignition. These DRL strips also flash amber with the indicators.

When the sidelights are switched on, the DRL strips switch off and the halo rings turn on as sidelights. When the main headlights are switched on all four xenon projectors switch on in dipped beam mode

Now these are nice.

Have sent you a p.m.

Steve.

[Rick-sta]

Originally Posted by first-things-first

Lovely work there. The green dials look very classy and "mint".



Is it me or should it be "r/min", i.e. is there a capital "I" in there??

Cheers mate hmm not sure actually will have to check the template.

Originally Posted by Typhoon190

Rick, your idea's and work look awesome. I'm really hoping to get an order into you soon. I just need for things to stop breaking down on my cars!

Cheers aha I know the feeling!

Originally Posted by gadget1960

Rick ... absolutely awesome work you do, would love to put an order in for the sill led's, just got to sort more impending stuff first.
A while ago my son managed to buy one of those light up ford logo badges and got me to fit it to his mk1 focus, got to admit it looked really good, not OTT at all, there was nothing around like that when I was a kid, all that was available was jack up kits, candy apple paint and furry dice to bolt to my MK2 Cortina. hahaha.
Different colour dials / led kick plates / drl lamps .... I would have killed for stuff like that back in the day.

Thank you I've got a batch order for the LED kick trims running at the moment with a order deadline on 31st December. The next batch order will probably be around March next year

I had a little look into the light up front badges, there are companies that make them but never thought there would be much interest in them.

Love the green V8 Dials Rick.

Cheers Spent quite a lot of time on that set

Originally Posted by handyjackdaniels

Now these are nice.

Have sent you a p.m.

Steve.

Cheers Steve, will check my PM's now

[vacuman]

Originally Posted by trikey

Nothing wrong with any of that!



Love the green V8 Dials Rick.

I've still got a couple of cans of Candy Apple Scarlet in my garage from 1980 when I sprayed my then girlfriend's Consul Capri with it over a silver base. All done in the open....simply sanded the dead flies out between lacquer coats.

Girlfriend is now my wife of 34 years.

[bl52krz]

How about the parking light that clipped onto the top of the window with the chip in that automatically put it on and off? Still have mine in the shed. Oh well.

[Jim Jamieson]

Lovely car the Capri, my Mum had a Classic 315 back in the 60’s TCS 993 it was maroon with a white roof. It was bought because my Dads’ wheelchair fitted into the large boot.
I still have the owners handbook for that car.

[mileshawk56]

Rick, really good stuff - you continue to impress. Chris S.

[Rick-sta]

Originally Posted by vacuman

I've still got a couple of cans of Candy Apple Scarlet in my garage from 1980 when I sprayed my then girlfriend's Consul Capri with it over a silver base. All done in the open....simply sanded the dead flies out between lacquer coats.

Girlfriend is now my wife of 34 years.

That is stunning

Originally Posted by mileshawk56

Rick, really good stuff - you continue to impress. Chris S.

Thanks

[vacuman]

Originally Posted by Rick-sta

That is stunning

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.