..come on then you big bunch of benders, those who are still around, sound off, post a picture, let us know you're still alive, what shows you're goin to and in how many ways your car's knackered.

I'll start. This is me, with my girly Ruth, at our mate's wig party. Only I didn't have a wig so just put my hair into pigtails.



This is my motor, a 2.0S with FR32. I'm on my 4th gearbox and that's fooked too and the axle has started rumbling and vibrating in the last two days. But it's 130 brake and the engine is spot on perfect.



Nothing that a bit of good weather wont see sorted. Hopefully it'll be mobile again for the Bury Retro Ford day and by the time COCk comes along I should have it finished off with all the bits I've been building up... its sidepipe, new rear leaves, new brakes, 1.6 axle, massive rear wheels and arches, 38DGAS on a properly machined out manifold and a strip down and repaint of the tired matt black paint. Oh and I'm gonna put my bumper back on.

Well OK if I finish it before COCk then I'll be amazed.. but I can dream..

Come on.. who's next?

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I use the gears to slow down rather than the brakes.

The bulbs keep blowing.

I'm Sam, and here is a song I wrote for a recent court hearing in which I was involved...

Oh I do like to wee beside the roadside,
Oh I do like to wee where all can see,
Well public exposure is so wrong, wrong, wrong,
Hear the sirens come,
Put the handcuffs on.

Oh I do like to wee beside the roadside,
Oh I do like to wee where all can see,
And I wink at all the dollies,
As I hoik back up 'me trollies,
Beside the roadside,
Where all can see.

All that effort and I got 150 hours community service. Bah.

um off work at the moment cuase of an op i had almost 2 weeks ago, i had a blocked swaet glad on my back find out more here----http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilonidal_sinus

so i cant work on the car, yet to do i have to cut out and weld new rear spring hanger, wax oil, re reit fuel tank, wax oil, put new springs and dampers etc on axle then re fit this to the car, sand and paint arch, wax oil floor, fit rubber mat and new carpets, buy and fit new seats, decied whihc of the 3 indicators set ups i have for the front im gona use and fit them, go pick up new engine and fit,a tad more body work, then clean up paint job untill i can afford respray, mot, rolling road, then drive it like i stole it

but while im off im playing with this

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so whos next?

FUN IS NOT A STRAGHT LINE

chiki-chiki Rich JC. Richard is my first name, im not rich, JC are my other two initials.

Here is me with me boys...

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Here is my car. Its a rolling 1.6 auto shell that will one day be a nippy 2.0 in signal orange.

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Work is slow due to having the two little people in the pic above. It will get there though. Here are my three previous capri's...

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The top was a 2.8 that Lee444 now has (and I believe is bent). The bottom one rotted away horribly and the middle 1.6 laser famously sold on affordable classics (back page of classic ford) for 3 times as much as I paid for it.

Rich

Yo,

I'm still alive. My 2.0 is running fine and I'm taking time off my 2.8 to sort out my new bike. Aside from motors I've been drinking lots and getting artistic with a marker pen:

or stevepeanut. I drive a 2.8i special, which this weekend, thanks to matty28i and his welding skills, now has a full roll cage and harnesses. So far its gonna be used most of summer, off to Jamies show, and as many drag races as I can afford to enter. Then I might take it off the road over winter and fit a bigger engine.

When I'm not messing with the car, I'm riding my aprilia sl1000 falco. Which I love more than my capri I must admit.

This was the car 3 or 4 years ago after I sparayed it



It now needs a bit of work again particularly since I sprayed the nearside door last year after a car park dent appeared and it a slightly different shade of blue with an odd stripe!

I swapped the tailgate when I sprayed the car but the paint inside is flaking as I did that bit in a hurry so I'm restoring the original which was a bit rusty inside but is now getting sorted



(spot the oversparay on the glass!)

The driver's door is a bit rusty around the top hinge so I've sourced a good replacement as it's easier than keep taking the door on and off - currently rubbing it down and priming



My gearbox is rumbling a bit which TCK reckons is a dry bearing and Nige says is the input shaft. In case Nige is right, and because it was only £51 I've bought an unused recon box still in its crate



The guy selling the box also had some alloys off a 2.8 so I bought those too but they need tyres



Popped up to see Johno a few weeks back and came back with some shark grey recaro seats. I've cleaned most but the driver's one still nedds a good going over but is in sound condition really



I swapped my axle over the weekend



but in the process I seem to have shagged my hip which means it's painful to walk now. At least it gives me time to repond to questions such as this:-)

...is me

and this is my car


With RichJC behind it and (I think) Nige's black Laser next to it!

In 2 weeks the car and I do our first track day together, so I am spending any time I can checking all the relevant bits are in top nick to get it ready. The fuel tank is gonna be changed 'cos it leaks going round corners and I don't think the marshals will like that!

this is me drunk in my local night club(only in somerset the land of farmers would you have your "local" night club)


this is my capri when it was working:


this is the current state of my capri:


currently the work to be done on it is:
replace the passenger side front suspension
fix some dinks and rust spots
new front wing
swap the engine for another 2.0 pinto
lowering blocks on the back
service the brakes
change the rear shocks
and full respray...

..that will be it's accolade. It'll always be the bridesmaid whhilst mine still runs! Although admittedly that is an increasingly unlikely set of circumstances.

Craig... you look liek the love child of two cousins of mine.. most intruiging..

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I use the gears to slow down rather than the brakes.

The bulbs keep blowing.

mon the buckfast!!!

Hi
my name is Andy Fisher and in the pic with me is my wife Yvonne we live near Rhyl N Wales, the pic was taken in funnygirls blackpool it was a good night out,
the Capri is my baby I have had her for about 7 years she is a 2.8i special the engine is tuned and has a bitsa turbo kit 1/3rd cosworth 1/3rd TT 1/3rd Janspeed.

...are you my long lost brother Andy?

well im Nat, my real name is Anthony, but ive been known as Nat for as long as i can remember.. and im not known as Tony, anyone who calls me Tony gets a knock in the goolies

Been on here for many years now.. and as some of you know i drive a supercharged capri (pinto engine)

ive been mostly tweaking the setup to get the most from it, the lastest mod being a custom pulley set to spin the charger faster at more usuable engine rpms, there was no point having max boost at 7000+ rpm when the engine peaks at 6000 that means more antisocial noise !

and me at last years cocc:
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and me capri (the one on the left)- is it me or do the slots look **** hot in this pic??:
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and a little vid of it ont he dyno
http://s29.photobucket.com/albums/c275/Nat-Capri/?action=view¤t=8beab921.flv



"Understeer" is when you hit the fence with the front of the car.
"Oversteer" is when you hit the fence with the rear of the car.
"Horsepower" is how fast you hit the fence.
"Torque" is how far you take the fence with you.

Well ! my dad was a milkman or did your mom ever come to Rhyl on holiday there is a likeness

.."tonic wine".. tonic wine which says, if my frankly impressive memory for written word serves me, "tonic is in no way intended to infer healing or medicinal properties.." I mean.. once you taste it.. and wake up from it.. it's kind of obvious that it's not gonna heal you.

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I use the gears to slow down rather than the brakes.

The bulbs keep blowing.

We really need stickies in this forum! This kind of thing should stay at the top.

Me - at the back before anyone asks :P


The car:
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How many ways it's knackered? Deep breath

Dented Panels: 5
Rusty Bits: 5
Minor mechanical problems: 3
Minor electrical problems: 3 or 4

Still pretty standard (other than the dents!) Only real changes I've made are a stainless steel dash panel, a nice shiny Mountney steering wheel, K&N filter, Aldon leccy ingnition and flamethrower coil, oh and a bodged up mk2 style grille. Got Chrome bumpers and mirrors to go on when I can get hold of some front brackets, going to get some different wheels when some nice ones come up for sale near me, and possibly do some of the changes recommended by Glynn and others - high torque cam, injection head, larger bore exhaust etc.

JC|2 LITRE LASER AUTOMATIC|STRATOS SILVER

hello, i am also still alive, altho been busy getting up to various things and generally having no monies

this is my car:



except after this happened:



my car went to the garage yesterday to be fixed so this is what they gave me to drive in the meantime:



which makes me feel like i was driving this:



and it has a weird key and an electric handbrake!!

whilst im getting my final work ready for exhibition some of the prints are making me look like this:





in my spare time i've been breeding fancy mice who look like this:



and maybe spending too much time with the mice when i end up looking like this:


(me at starbucks) (mouse)


and here is me and saffron walden skate park with some of my mates and some pro skaters:


and me and mrs daisy and jack and some other mates after skating, taken by a mate from hull whose setting up his own photography business:


so i think thats enough photos

..this guy.. in the middle..



..is in possibly the gayest pose I think I've ever seen anyone in ever in the history of time. I've seen cocks - men's cocks no less - going in and out of men's arses that look less gay than that pose. Wow I might have to make another "The Gays" style album cover out of that. Amaziing.

Dig your VW... uhh.. Polo? Or is that a small minty refreshment? Ccan't tell.. nice though, suits you down to the ground mate

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I use the gears to slow down rather than the brakes.

The bulbs keep blowing.

i think your just jelous that he can pull a more gay pose than you, the hair just doesnt cut it any more tom...not in the world of gay poses.

i think your just jelous that he can pull a more gay pose than you, the hair just doesnt cut it any more tom...not in the world of gay poses.

"I've seen cocks - men's cocks no less - going in and out of men's arses that look less gay than that pose."
Ha ha ha ha fecking brilliant!!! Poor kid in the pic!!

Im not posting my picture... i did once before a few years back.... they only got the internet working right again in the last few months.

..I don't mean to be mean.. but facts are sometimes mean.

But if I'd pulled a gay pose I'd rip myself for it too. And indeed have done. In fact that gives me the best idea for a new thread.

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I use the gears to slow down rather than the brakes.

The bulbs keep blowing.

and I'm an alcoholic haha...

I got my first capri at 18:



honest 2.0 laser, 2 owners, 425 quid, no rust, would stall all the time, I assume points now but was pretty reliable, nothing really ever went wrong with it.

a few months later it got stoved in at the front by some stupid bitch driving around a blind corner on the wrong side of the road, no seriously...

so insurance paid me 500 quid and I sold what remained for 260, and bought this sorry sack of **** for 800 and never looked back, that was in 2003 I think:




since then I've had no end of problems with it but I do love it still, fitted a body kit a few years back:




then last year I had it painted:




and now here is where I spend most of my time:




tom what colour you getting your car sprayed?


Oh yeah and this is me and my other ride:



the skateboard.

and the hot rod:





and that's me.



Steal not my pictures else thou shalt incur my displeasure.....Haydn Barker

us real skaters don't get along with them froot booters haha....it's all rambo bands and saggy trousers....

We've been up old saffron walden before, it's not too shabby....


Steal not my pictures else thou shalt incur my displeasure.....Haydn Barker

That makes about sixteen so far with several more I can think of.
I think I've still got a couple of months subscription left to run.

yeah our booters say the same kinda stuff about you boarders! its a funny world. well theres a few boarders down here too and everyone gets along great at the pub.

..matt black. But the olde paint is gonna come off first - there must be 20kg of paint on the front wings alone.

If you're ever down the Saffron Walden way again matey give me and Daisy a call - if we're free we should at least see who can break soemthing off their car the quickest. There's some nice roads up there.

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DISCLAIMER = Major Tom wishes fellow forum members and readers to consider that his comments - particularly those relating to anything containing the words cockmunch, gay, gayness and gaynal - may be perceived as more serious, or more offensive, than the author originally intended.

.......Or are they?

I still hear just to wind up tck.and pi55 off cashy on c/p "ohh he loves it realy" Just been making honey even nicer with some newer seats,some new rs wheel centres,ect
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At the Capri Swarm in Columbus Ohio, Fall 2007

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Don

..very nice piece of kit there. Not sure about the letters under the bonnet though haha!

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I use the gears to slow down rather than the brakes.

The bulbs keep blowing.

Very much liking that car... Loving the speed stripes too!

Not normally a fan of US-spec bumpers, but they suit that one really well!

Looks a bit like a Chastain capri in those pics:

JC|2 LITRE LASER AUTOMATIC|STRATOS SILVER

Can you email that to me?

ASC and Chastain were two of the companies in the US that tried to work with the Capri's during that time frame.
Don

I'm still popping my head in now and then. For those who don't know I no longer have a capri. At the moment i'm stripping down a BMW 530i (3.0 218bhp 32v V8) to use all the main parts as a basis for a seven style kit car. You can now find me posting regularly on the locostbuilders.co.uk forum. I'll get some pics up if anybody is that interested.

Efi Pinto's rock!!!

If you find any good pinto info on there fire it in this direction.

well, pinto's are getting so rare that most kit car builders are looking elsewhere nowadays. Most that are fitting pinto's could learn plenty off the guys on here!

Efi Pinto's rock!!!

I'm Sam.

I have a car...



Here's a short video of it.
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=74pAj2okWnk


I sometimes play in a band. I dress up as a midwest preacher when I do...



I do a lot of kayaking.


But it terrifies me...
http://www.macphoto.net/eventgallery/showimage.php?event_id=62&keyRef=&searchKey=793&thumbs=20&pageNum_imageList=17

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And I'm not very good...
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..like it. Good car too, looks well shiny and straight! Good man.

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DISCLAIMER = Major Tom wishes fellow forum members and readers to consider that his comments - particularly those relating to anything containing the words cockmunch, gay, gayness and gaynal - may be less serious and offensive than the reader may interpret.

.......Or are they?

gotta hand to anyone who goes down a river in the countryside is a big plastic dildo.

Efi Pinto's rock!!!

http://i92.photobucket.com/albums/l28/voyager27/thIMG_1212-1.jpg

I'm Dave 'SmokeEm' - no Capri at the minute as my circumstances changed dramatically & I now have custody of my 12yr old so its flat time!

We will be at COC as usual but NOT with a bloody tent!

I ain't used to this techy stuff!

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i just found out we both sold our capris to the same guy! capriedd on OSF

If you are bringing a 12 year old to Coc then the tent shouldn't be a problem - kids can cope with that type of stuff better than us adults!