Thought I would post up a few pictures of the 3.0S V6 Capri me and a good friend have been restoring over the past two years. Its now pretty much complete and just awaiting a few little parts for the MOT.
The car came from a scrapyard near Dover and was in a complete mess when it was first bought for the sum of £800. Throughout its restoration it has sort of turned into a Hybrid capri. We had to make use of parts from mk2's and mk3's to get the best finish we could given the funds available. The biggest and most challenging part was not practically rebuilding every panel through rust but replacing the roof! Oh yes the roof! It was a model with a sunroof and the water chanels had rusted away so far to the extent the A and C pillars were rotten. To solve this we sourced a roof from an non-sunroof model, cut it off and welded it on. Not as easy as it sounds trust me.
A great steal half way through was a set of 2.8 Special leather recaro's. The final colour was the new Focus RS blue.... the car had become such a mix of parts throughout that it made little sense leaving it original, so it turned out a little unique.
Chris put it in for its MOT today and it passed on everything bar emisions, a decent carb setup should sort that out.
Thoughts of additions welcomed
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