I had 2 of these in high school. The first was1972 with 2 litre 4 banger. I sold that to a friend and got a 1973 with a 2.6 litre V6 - huge difference in power. Great cars and hard to find now.
My Dad bought a new one in '72. Years later, in 1986, my first car was a 1976 Capri "ll" with the 2.3 and a four speed. It had an adjustable map light on the passenger side that EVERY rider shined into my eyes at night. They all thought they were SO funny!
Had the same car. I slammed it into 2nd once too often and snapped the shift handle about 2 inches from the floor. I drove it for a month or so with a 1/2 inch pipe for a shirter. :) I loved that car. I use to get a kick out of doing double the speed on marked curves. My mistake I had a 71.
My aunt gave me her ‘76 V-6 Capri in the early 90’s. It provided several trouble free years of driving. It was also a lot of fun to drive, especially dumping the clutch at a red light. I eventually gave it back to my aunt and her son drove it several more years.
My first Capri was a '74 with the V6 (orange w/ black vinyl interior) and black vinyl top. I loved that car! My 2nd Capri was a 1984 RS 5.0 liter engine. It was black w/orange stripe at the lower 2 sides of the car. It had the 'bubble back' hatch. It was originally ordered set up to race autocross. It had dual exhaust, a huge Holley carb, racing headers, 15" wheels, 5 speed manual and an integrated whale tail attached to the rear hatch. Instead of the normal 175 hp, the car dyno'ed at 305 hp! Everyone couldn't figure out why mine was so much faster and had superior handling! Lord...I miss that car.🥺
as an early teen, my older brother had a US version 74 with the 2.8 4 speed.first time i saw 100 mph, on the way to sunday school of all things.if i recall correctly it was just over 5000k rpm.with stock 13" tires.
I had a 1981 Fox Body Capri that I bought in 1984 while in college. It was a great car for a poor college student. I traded it in for a 1986 Red Trans Am after I graduated and started earning more money.
I had a 71. I slammed it into 2nd once too often and snapped the shift handle about 2 inches from the floor. I drove it for a month or so with a 1/2 inch pipe for a shifter. I made an 8 ball for the new handle when I put it in. I loved that car. I use to get a kick out of doing double the speed on marked curves.
I "cross shopped" the Capri with the Opel Manta in late 1973. I wanted the 2.6 litre V-6 with a 4-speed but the only V-6's the dealers had were automatics. The only 4-speeds were 4-bangers. Plus by then all the inventories were '74 models with the hideous bumpers. I found a "leftover" '73 Manta 1.9 litre 4 cylinder (the only engine available) 4-speed with the pre-regulation bumpers. It was the Luxus model with mouse fur interior (would have preferred vinyl), but mechanically the different models were identical. Buick dealers had just about as much acumen dealing with the Manta as Mercury dealers did with the Capri. So I drove away in a Manta, silver with the pre-'74 bumpers, for considerably less than sticker price. It was a very nice driving car and did many trips between L.A. and Mammoth Mountain back in the '70's!
Actually, there was a Capri before this... From 1962 - 65 Ford UK produced The Ford Consul Capri, a coupé version of The Ford Consul 315... It looked like a scaled down version of The 1961 Ford Skyliner
I liked the early 70s style Capri. It had 1 big drawback though. It was a Ford! As I remember there were not many around and did not work well in our Minnesota winters.
Well done on your Capri video. One slight correction: while the Mustang was built on the Falcon platform, the Capri was built on the Cortina platform. I still have my '73 Capri. Fun car!
I was living in England when the new Ford Probe came out. Everyone hated it because of the name (think medical procedure) and it was a total sales failure. Everyone agreed that all they had to do was call it a Capri and they would have sold millions. Marketing matters.
This was the first car I bought myself . I was 18 years old at the time living in Somerset England. . The car was a 72 Capri GTXLR 1600. Datona yellow, black vinyl top, rostyle wheels and all black interior. It looked "the business ". Wish to god I never sold it , oh for hindsight. They cost an absolute fortune now... later on came a 79 Ghia, silver with full red velour interior, then a 83 2,8 injection , blue over silver. Oh my, why did we sell these cars.?
My uncle died b4 I was born. But he had 2 of them. I always thought they were so awesome. They were sitting around throughout my childhood and i would play in them. The interior was awesome too. I loved the recessed back window, among other things
I bought a '72 Capri 2-liter/4-speed in early 1973; it was brown with an off-white deluxe interior. Like most cars, it had its good and bad points. Good: Outstanding transmission & brakes; awesome interior; excellent paint; really good handling; and the body's build quality was nothing short of Mercedes-like in terms of how solid it was. Bad: The car consumed U-joints like they were going out of style (and because of their design, you couldn't just replace the U-joints...you had to replace the entire driveshaft); running a close second to the unreliable U-joints were the MacPherson struts (you couldn't drive the car at 50-55MPH without the front end shaking like a paint machine at the hardware store...which really sucked when the national speed limit was dropped to 55MPH!); and at 30K miles or so, it became a major oil burner. My Capri was a good-looking car that COULD be fun to drive, but overall, I couldn't wait to get rid of it...
Great job as usual!! How you don't have 100K subscribers' baffles, Yall make fantastic videos! I spread the word and everyone watching should too. Yall always pick great topics and your attention to detail is spot on!!!
I had 2 Capris. The first was a 1974 cream color with a V6 engine. I really liked the car but only 4 months later while in downtown New York City, the car was totaled. I used a company car for a while and then bought a white 1976 Capri V6.
Thank you so much for the video. Good research, information and footage. You covered the information provided great narration as well. Thank for the effort and I did enjoy seeing the European and Australian connection. This car picked up where the first generation Mercury Cougar left off.
i actually like the early fox capri's body lines & grill better than the mustangs.i just couldnt take the 83 bubble hatch.82's were sharp without the bubble hatch. the t5 trans was really needed over the 4 speed o/d model with the 302s.much better gear spread.
Oh my, thank you so much for putting that together. When I was stationed Europe, I had a 79 Capri German specs for the 3.05 speed man that little car ran like a scal. The dog I headed up to 230 km per hour so I guess it's like about a 125 130 and I was just so happy. Running down the auto bond until those vehicles behind you flash in their lives like get out of the way slow poat, but it was a really Nifty. Good handling car. Thank you for putting that together.
I'd rather have the first generation Capri over that mid-70s firebird. I'm a firebird fan. But after about 1975 I didn't like them until the end of the run. That's a great thing about being a car enthusiast. We all like something different so the prices are astronomical anyway but they'll be much higher if we all want the exact same car.
I had a 76' blue Capri with 3.6 4 speed. Was a really fun car to drive. More than enough zip. Been looki g for another one but they are really out of my price range now lol
I bought a 73, 4 cylinder, auto with decor group in dark green in 73 and then followed up with a 76 Capri II Ghia with v-6 and 4-speedm silver-blue. Would love to find another 73.
I had a 71 yellow V6 manual and a 75 red hatchback V6 manual. Loved both, but the 75 was really special. My brother had a 71 too, but it was a 4 cylinder.
Capri was the only nameplate used by all 3 Ford Divisions similar to how GM's C body was only used under its luxury divisions Oldsmobile Toronado Buick Riviera and Cadillac Eldorado.
Europeans always got the best cars. Especially small cars. But now everything is made to sell worldwide. So we don't have special cars for different regions anymore. It's a shame. When cars were built for a specific place and purpose. They were so much better
Its funny how many people comment about having one or a friend with one back in the day. Im no different, Got my first one in 1988. Have owned many , and still have a 73 and a 74....far from stock though!
Thanks for the video, I really enjoyed it! I have a lot of memories of Capris up here in Canada! Think they sold quite a few of them here, in addition to the US.
The UK first used the Capri name in the early 60s, a completely different car, consul Capri, 2 door version of the ford classic, it was a smaller close vopy of the 60 Chevrolet impala
My father had a '72 with the 2.6 V6 and 4 speed manual. I thought it was a pretty cool car for it's time - but not good for Canadian (salty) winters. It rusted quite badly. IIRC they were hard to come by and he had to settle for a brown one (yes, the ugly brown) because it was the only one to show up in our entire county in months.
I always thought that the Fox-body Mercury Capri was a much nicer looking car than its Mustang equivalent. And you didn't mention the later GS model, which had the bubble-back hatchback window.
Sometimes Ford really hits the mark with body styling and power trains, but lately Ford is missing the mark with Everything except for the F150 and some of its power trains are questionable.
I can only think of one car they hit the mark with....no I cant! Yea their powertrains have always been questionable & cost twice as much to fix as Dodge or Chevy
@@SquirminHermanthe1eyedGerman I seem to get more reliable miles with our Ford pickups than I ever have with Chevy and I was always having problems with Dodge. In fact I’d never own another Chrysler /Fiat POS again
@@Doc1855 45 yrs of driving & never had any luck with Fords, had 4 & all were troublesome! Had my best trouble free truckin miles with a 1973 Dodge, 1983 Dodge, 1984 Chevy, 1985 Chevy, 1990 Chevy & 1995 Dodge
@@SquirminHermanthe1eyedGerman I get it. It’s so odd that one person has awesome luck with any particular vehicle and another person doesn’t. My 82 and 96 F150s were great full sized pickups, but I lucked out with my 82, as I bought it in 83. It had the 4.9L inline 6cyl, which is what I was looking for. Not a lot of hp, but a lot of low end torque. I put just over 1/2 million miles on that one. I ordered my 96. It too had the 4.9L. I sold that one in 19 when we bought our 4th Ford Ranger. It’s a 2011. It’s a sweet little pickup. It’s a 4WD XLT super cab, tow pkg, limited slip rear differential. It’s mainly used for work around our property and has only 36K miles on it. At our age I’m quite sure it’ll be the last pickup we’ll ever own. It has the 4.0L V6 and a 5spd automatic transmission. We don’t like silver, gray, charcoal grey or black and our current Ranger is silver so I had it 2 toned, so now it’s Silver over Red metallic. We didn’t like the standard grey and black interior, so I had it reupholstered in Red with black trim and stitching. I also added pinstripes, custom wheels, rear air shocks (we haul a lot of topsoil, firewood etc). For my birthday a couple of years ago I had LineX spray in bed liner installed. The running boards are great for knocking the mud and snow off our boots. Before adding a K&N intake and a 3” FlowMaster exhaust system, we were getting 19mpg on the highway with the cruise set on 75mph. I now get 23mpg. This year my wife surprised me with a tonneau cover with 3 support beams so it’ll keep the snow out of the bed. Our 1990 Ranger ran great until it hit 80K miles and then it started burning a LOT of oil, so we sold that one and kept driving our 96 F150. We had just shy of 700K miles on our 96 when we sold it in 19 when we bought our Ranger. Our 87 Dodge Ram was a POS. We liked our 99 Ram with the Cummins diesel but in only 60K miles it went through 3 transmissions. The first one went out while under warranty. We had a few 2500 and 3500 Chevys but they didn’t hold up. Our F250s and F350s were bulletproof. I know our guys would tear them up out on the oil fields but if I ever caught them abusing our pickups, they’d get only 1 warning. If they were caught again, they’d be fired on the spot. Thanks for letting me ramble. Enjoy your day !
They really need to make these again and even the regular mustang 🐎 like the 64&1/2 mustang I'm sure the convertible being better gas ⛽ mileage. Just perfect, simple, reliable and effective and efficient for any and all time in American history. 🎉 Would be great for the environment and the people today even more so than yesterday. Can't believe they hate us so much they refuse to allow us access to perfect things continually and without interruptions. Instead they play games and plan obsoletion for reasons that ultimately and actually don't help anybody even themselves, although they enjoy short , fast, and really large gains, temporarily , it never adds up to anything beneficial to anyone let alone everyone. I mean EVs are literally killing their owners and burning their houses down and yet they are trying to force this dangerous crap down our throats when clearly we'd be so much better off with just the things that always worked like these cars here that we desperately need now more than ever but nooooooo, They're really rare and not sold new anymore even though we could do that easily and they're so much better!! RIP America 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
Just a simple little coupe. Wish they still made cars like this today. 😢
They do Kia forte, ford mustang, civic SI, all under 30k coupes
I had 2 of these in high school. The first was1972 with 2 litre 4 banger. I sold that to a friend and got a 1973 with a 2.6 litre V6 - huge difference in power. Great cars and hard to find now.
My history almost exactly, had a 71 and 74.
Right on
My Dad bought a new one in '72. Years later, in 1986, my first car was a 1976 Capri "ll" with the 2.3 and a four speed. It had an adjustable map light on the passenger side that EVERY rider shined into my eyes at night. They all thought they were SO funny!
I remember when the Capri came out. The ads called it the "Sexy European"!! Thanks for sharing another exciting video!!! 👍👍🦃
My first car was a 1972 Ford Capri 1700 GT 😺👍🏼🏁
I had 2. 1972 2 litre and 1973 GT 2.6 litre V6 in high school.
Had a 72 Capri 6 with 4 spd. What a beast , great handling and bottomless acceleration . It’s on my list of cars I wish I still owned
Had the same car. I slammed it into 2nd once too often and snapped the shift handle about 2 inches from the floor. I drove it for a month or so with a 1/2 inch pipe for a shirter. :) I loved that car. I use to get a kick out of doing double the speed on marked curves. My mistake I had a 71.
I was born in Germany in the mid '60s & I remember my uncle had a brown '73 with black top & interior, I loved those cars ✌💖☮
My aunt gave me her ‘76 V-6 Capri in the early 90’s. It provided several trouble free years of driving. It was also a lot of fun to drive, especially dumping the clutch at a red light. I eventually gave it back to my aunt and her son drove it several more years.
Thank you for posting this on my favorite Mercury. The Capri from 1979.
My first Capri was a '74 with the V6 (orange w/ black vinyl interior) and black vinyl top. I loved that car! My 2nd Capri was a 1984 RS 5.0 liter engine. It was black w/orange stripe at the lower 2 sides of the car. It had the 'bubble back' hatch. It was originally ordered set up to race autocross. It had dual exhaust, a huge Holley carb, racing headers, 15" wheels, 5 speed manual and an integrated whale tail attached to the rear hatch. Instead of the normal 175 hp, the car dyno'ed at 305 hp! Everyone couldn't figure out why mine was so much faster and had superior handling! Lord...I miss that car.🥺
as an early teen, my older brother had a US version 74 with the 2.8 4 speed.first time i saw 100 mph, on the way to sunday school of all things.if i recall correctly it was just over 5000k rpm.with stock 13" tires.
I had a 1981 Fox Body Capri that I bought in 1984 while in college. It was a great car for a poor college student. I traded it in for a 1986 Red Trans Am after I graduated and started earning more money.
love the Capri but Trans Am was much much better! Bought a new 1985 Bandit II edition for my Hi Skool graduation present, paid $7000 cash for it ✌💖☮
Had a 1973, V6 Manual…laid rubber every chance I got, and hit the curves hard. I miss her…so fun to drive.
I had a 71. I slammed it into 2nd once too often and snapped the shift handle about 2 inches from the floor. I drove it for a month or so with a 1/2 inch pipe for a shifter. I made an 8 ball for the new handle when I put it in. I loved that car. I use to get a kick out of doing double the speed on marked curves.
A Capri and a Firebird. You had exquisite taste in automobiles as a youngster. It would be my perfect two car garage.
Do a show on factory Hood scoops, different styles and different functionalalities (vacuum, mechanical, cowl, etc.....) ❤
I "cross shopped" the Capri with the Opel Manta in late 1973. I wanted the 2.6 litre V-6 with a 4-speed but the only V-6's the dealers had were automatics. The only 4-speeds were 4-bangers. Plus by then all the inventories were '74 models with the hideous bumpers. I found a "leftover" '73 Manta 1.9 litre 4 cylinder (the only engine available) 4-speed with the pre-regulation bumpers. It was the Luxus model with mouse fur interior (would have preferred vinyl), but mechanically the different models were identical. Buick dealers had just about as much acumen dealing with the Manta as Mercury dealers did with the Capri. So I drove away in a Manta, silver with the pre-'74 bumpers, for considerably less than sticker price. It was a very nice driving car and did many trips between L.A. and Mammoth Mountain back in the '70's!
Actually, there was a Capri before this...
From 1962 - 65 Ford UK produced The Ford Consul Capri, a coupé version
of The Ford Consul 315...
It looked like a scaled down version of The 1961 Ford Skyliner
I liked the early 70s style Capri. It had 1 big drawback though. It was a Ford! As I remember there were not many around and did not work well in our Minnesota winters.
Well done on your Capri video. One slight correction: while the Mustang was built on the Falcon platform, the Capri was built on the Cortina platform. I still have my '73 Capri. Fun car!
Another great video about American history, guys. Thank you
When I was a kid the Mercury Capri was a favorite for V8 driver train swaps.
Had a 71 Mercury Capri. My first car.
I was living in England when the new Ford Probe came out. Everyone hated it because of the name (think medical procedure) and it was a total sales failure. Everyone agreed that all they had to do was call it a Capri and they would have sold millions. Marketing matters.
This was the first car I bought myself . I was 18 years old at the time living in Somerset England. . The car was a 72 Capri GTXLR 1600. Datona yellow, black vinyl top, rostyle wheels and all black interior. It looked "the business ". Wish to god I never sold it , oh for hindsight. They cost an absolute fortune now... later on came a 79 Ghia, silver with full red velour interior, then a 83 2,8 injection , blue over silver. Oh my, why did we sell these cars.?
I know I regret selling mine.
My uncle died b4 I was born. But he had 2 of them. I always thought they were so awesome. They were sitting around throughout my childhood and i would play in them. The interior was awesome too. I loved the recessed back window, among other things
Oh I had 3 of those . How I regret selling them.. love the little Capri
I bought a '72 Capri 2-liter/4-speed in early 1973; it was brown with an off-white deluxe interior. Like most cars, it had its good and bad points. Good: Outstanding transmission & brakes; awesome interior; excellent paint; really good handling; and the body's build quality was nothing short of Mercedes-like in terms of how solid it was. Bad: The car consumed U-joints like they were going out of style (and because of their design, you couldn't just replace the U-joints...you had to replace the entire driveshaft); running a close second to the unreliable U-joints were the MacPherson struts (you couldn't drive the car at 50-55MPH without the front end shaking like a paint machine at the hardware store...which really sucked when the national speed limit was dropped to 55MPH!); and at 30K miles or so, it became a major oil burner. My Capri was a good-looking car that COULD be fun to drive, but overall, I couldn't wait to get rid of it...
My first new car was a 1973. An amazing little car. Never any mechanical problems. My only problem was everyone kept hitting it.
Great job as usual!! How you don't have 100K subscribers' baffles, Yall make fantastic videos! I spread the word and everyone watching should too. Yall always pick great topics and your attention to detail is spot on!!!
I had 2 Capris. The first was a 1974 cream color with a V6 engine. I really liked the car but only 4 months later while in downtown New York City, the car was totaled. I used a company car for a while and then bought a white 1976 Capri V6.
I also had a Cortina GT and drove it from Detroit to California and back. Great little car.
Growing up in Canada, Capri's were common. Handling was quite good, but only drove one once.
I have a Ford Capri MK2 that I bought a few years ago. It is a very fun car.
Thank you so much for the video. Good research, information and footage. You covered the information provided great narration as well. Thank for the effort and I did enjoy seeing the European and Australian connection. This car picked up where the first generation Mercury Cougar left off.
My very first car was an identical 73 brown Capri also...wish I had one today, almost rarely see one
i actually like the early fox capri's body lines & grill better than the mustangs.i just couldnt take the 83 bubble hatch.82's were sharp without the bubble hatch. the t5 trans was really needed over the 4 speed o/d model with the 302s.much better gear spread.
Oh my, thank you so much for putting that together. When I was stationed Europe, I had a 79 Capri German specs for the 3.05 speed man that little car ran like a scal. The dog I headed up to 230 km per hour so I guess it's like about a 125 130 and I was just so happy. Running down the auto bond until those vehicles behind you flash in their lives like get out of the way slow poat, but it was a really Nifty. Good handling car. Thank you for putting that together.
what year were you in Europe...Germany?
I'd rather have the first generation Capri over that mid-70s firebird. I'm a firebird fan. But after about 1975 I didn't like them until the end of the run. That's a great thing about being a car enthusiast. We all like something different so the prices are astronomical anyway but they'll be much higher if we all want the exact same car.
I had a 76' blue Capri with 3.6 4 speed.
Was a really fun car to drive.
More than enough zip.
Been looki g for another one but they are really out of my price range now lol
One of my classmates drove one of these in high school. I always thought it was pretty cool.
I bought a 73, 4 cylinder, auto with decor group in dark green in 73 and then followed up with a 76 Capri II Ghia with v-6 and 4-speedm silver-blue. Would love to find another 73.
I had a Mercury Capri back in 1986. It had a 4 on the floor and was lots of fun to drive
I bought a new Capri V6 4 speed in 1972ish. Fun car
I had a 71 yellow V6 manual and a 75 red hatchback V6 manual. Loved both, but the 75 was really special. My brother had a 71 too, but it was a 4 cylinder.
Missed the Mercury Capri Turbo RS. 2.3L turbocharged bubble back Mustang with TRX tires. In most ways equal to the Mustang GT.
Capri was the only nameplate used by all 3 Ford Divisions similar to how GM's C body was only used under its luxury divisions Oldsmobile Toronado Buick Riviera and Cadillac Eldorado.
Europeans always got the best cars. Especially small cars. But now everything is made to sell worldwide. So we don't have special cars for different regions anymore. It's a shame. When cars were built for a specific place and purpose. They were so much better
Few know this but the Capri was sold in south Africa with a mustang 5.0 installed!
Those were beautiful cars.
My buddy had an orange v6 Capri. It run real decent.
This is a pretty neat little car
Had a 76 Capri with a 2.8 and 4 speed.
My mother bought a new '86 Aerostar cargo van with the 2.8; she got 290k out of the engine which was impressive for the time.
Its funny how many people comment about having one or a friend with one back in the day. Im no different, Got my first one in 1988. Have owned many , and still have a 73 and a 74....far from stock though!
I love those old Capris. There are still a large number of them in the United Kingdom. They have MK 1 Fiestas too, something I've had.
Thanks for the video, I really enjoyed it!
I have a lot of memories of Capris up here in Canada!
Think they sold quite a few of them here, in addition to the US.
Ford Capri in Europe had two different versions. 1- British 2-German
Each of them with several different engine sizes of 4 cylinder and 6 cylinder.
The UK first used the Capri name in the early 60s, a completely different car, consul Capri, 2 door version of the ford classic, it was a smaller close vopy of the 60 Chevrolet impala
My brother had a Capri with a six cylinder engine. Nice car.
3:58 Equal odds on whether that center situation is a magazine fold or an actual fit-and-finish production.
The pre '73 were the best.
My dad had a red 91 Capri had to rebuild engine and transmission.
My neighbor have one it 1990's 2 door
It was the Mercury Capri !l had one .
My father had a '72 with the 2.6 V6 and 4 speed manual. I thought it was a pretty cool car for it's time - but not good for Canadian (salty) winters. It rusted quite badly.
IIRC they were hard to come by and he had to settle for a brown one (yes, the ugly brown) because it was the only one to show up in our entire county in months.
I always thought that the Fox-body Mercury Capri was a much nicer looking car than its Mustang equivalent. And you didn't mention the later GS model, which had the bubble-back hatchback window.
I hade one. Nice Car.
I had a '73 with the 4 cyl
They did in South Africa, came out with 302 v8 ,calle Perana Capri
I've seen a black Pantera was cool mine was white.
Sometimes Ford really hits the mark with body styling and power trains, but lately Ford is missing the mark with Everything except for the F150 and some of its power trains are questionable.
I can only think of one car they hit the mark with....no I cant! Yea their powertrains have always been questionable & cost twice as much to fix as Dodge or Chevy
@@SquirminHermanthe1eyedGerman I seem to get more reliable miles with our Ford pickups than I ever have with Chevy and I was always having problems with Dodge. In fact I’d never own another Chrysler /Fiat POS again
@@Doc1855 45 yrs of driving & never had any luck with Fords, had 4 & all were troublesome! Had my best trouble free truckin miles with a 1973 Dodge, 1983 Dodge, 1984 Chevy, 1985 Chevy, 1990 Chevy & 1995 Dodge
@@SquirminHermanthe1eyedGerman I get it.
It’s so odd that one person has awesome luck with any particular vehicle and another person doesn’t.
My 82 and 96 F150s were great full sized pickups, but I lucked out with my 82, as I bought it in 83. It had the 4.9L inline 6cyl, which is what I was looking for. Not a lot of hp, but a lot of low end torque. I put just over 1/2 million miles on that one. I ordered my 96. It too had the 4.9L. I sold that one in 19 when we bought our 4th Ford Ranger. It’s a 2011. It’s a sweet little pickup. It’s a 4WD XLT super cab, tow pkg, limited slip rear differential. It’s mainly used for work around our property and has only 36K miles on it. At our age I’m quite sure it’ll be the last pickup we’ll ever own. It has the 4.0L V6 and a 5spd automatic transmission.
We don’t like silver, gray, charcoal grey or black and our current Ranger is silver so I had it 2 toned, so now it’s Silver over Red metallic. We didn’t like the standard grey and black interior, so I had it reupholstered in Red with black trim and stitching. I also added pinstripes, custom wheels, rear air shocks (we haul a lot of topsoil, firewood etc). For my birthday a couple of years ago I had LineX spray in bed liner installed. The running boards are great for knocking the mud and snow off our boots.
Before adding a K&N intake and a 3” FlowMaster exhaust system, we were getting 19mpg on the highway with the cruise set on 75mph. I now get 23mpg. This year my wife surprised me with a tonneau cover with 3 support beams so it’ll keep the snow out of the bed.
Our 1990 Ranger ran great until it hit 80K miles and then it started burning a LOT of oil, so we sold that one and kept driving our 96 F150. We had just shy of 700K miles on our 96 when we sold it in 19 when we bought our Ranger.
Our 87 Dodge Ram was a POS. We liked our 99 Ram with the Cummins diesel but in only 60K miles it went through 3 transmissions. The first one went out while under warranty.
We had a few 2500 and 3500 Chevys but they didn’t hold up. Our F250s and F350s were bulletproof. I know our guys would tear them up out on the oil fields but if I ever caught them abusing our pickups, they’d get only 1 warning. If they were caught again, they’d be fired on the spot.
Thanks for letting me ramble. Enjoy your day !
I had a Capri I 84 it was a piece of junk it burn lol from day l took it back to Ford dealership time and time
The 1st gen Capri was nice looking, 2nd gen looked too much like a Mustang, 3rd gen was hideous looking.
And Mitsubishi rolled in and fabricated the Dodge Colt
What junk! You don't see them anymore because they rotted out after 3 years.
Capri was a very cheap car under $2500
Can't expect more.
BS. Even in the eighties when Capri's were over 10 yrs old you still saw many of m on the road.
Opel Manta wanna be ...
I can't stand the way he emphasizes the word Capri over and over
I had a 76' pretty fast and handled great! My friend had a 74' with the ghia v6.. great car
They really need to make these again and even the regular mustang 🐎 like the 64&1/2 mustang I'm sure the convertible being better gas ⛽ mileage.
Just perfect, simple, reliable and effective and efficient for any and all time in American history. 🎉
Would be great for the environment and the people today even more so than yesterday. Can't believe they hate us so much they refuse to allow us access to perfect things continually and without interruptions. Instead they play games and plan obsoletion for reasons that ultimately and actually don't help anybody even themselves, although they enjoy short , fast, and really large gains, temporarily , it never adds up to anything beneficial to anyone let alone everyone.
I mean EVs are literally killing their owners and burning their houses down and yet they are trying to force this dangerous crap down our throats when clearly we'd be so much better off with just the things that always worked like these cars here that we desperately need now more than ever but nooooooo,
They're really rare and not sold new anymore even though we could do that easily and they're so much better!!
RIP America 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉