When Ford GB launched the Capri on February 5 1969 ... In 2017, this car’s penultimate owner had plans to convert it to a V8 engine but instead decided to invest more than £50,000 to return ...

The MK1 Ford Capri in Europe came with a wide range of ... the RS2600 and RS3100. Even so, a V8 didn't find its way into a Capri, aside from the South African Ford Capri Perana built by Basil ...

He told me: “I've had three Mk1's, two Mk2's, and many Mk3's, and I've got this one.” I had to ask him: what is it about the Ford Capri? “Cut me in half, I’m Ford,” Stuart said.

There you go, then,’ said Nathan Bovingdon as he handed me the keys to the Capri in the workshop at the ... soft-edged pulse of 5.3 litres of V8. Choked, I was. Probably should have opened ...

It’s not a Capri. But the car itself is good ... more than 40 years — got my juices flowing. Mk1 Transit body, race-car chassis, Ford V8. The 1971 original was so comically fast it would ...

Arse. With as much nonchalance as I could muster I filled up with fuel while the Capri made a hot puddle. By the time I’d paid and rolled it to the air and water bay, it had stopped hissing.