My Capri is a MK2. These were made between 1974 and 1978. Mine is a 1.3 Litre, which is quite rare these days.

I bought the Capri back in 2005 after it had been laid up for a while in the owners drive. Before that it was on display at a Ford dealer for a few years as the previous owner managed the body shop and bought this car from the first owner following the garage getting flooded from the Kings Lynn floods in 1978, when it was put in a special bath to remove salt water, rebuilt and waxoyled.

It was MOT'd and taxed before I insured it for the drive home from Kings Lynn to Colchester. It drove home without a problem, but started playing up soon afterwards. The contact in the distributor were corroded with verdigre which resulted in a refusal to start. Many erroneous electrical problems were also caused by fuse box terminal corrosion. Nothing out of my scope of experience to sort though. The bodywork had mild 'upgrades'. That is, the MK2 Capri had various MK3 upgrades which included MK3 front grill, rear lower panel complete with redundant tow eye hole, side rubber bump strips and MK3 lights on the rear.

I fitted new leads, distributor cap, contact set and rewired the fuse box, fitting two new ones under the dash, solving the problem of the original getting wet under the bonnet.

This is the Capri when I first got it. The picture taken in 2006 at the Wheelsday car show.