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rhd racer wrote: ↑Sun Apr 05, 2026 10:13 pm
That Capri looks like the lesser spotted 1.6LS - a run off model with wide banded wheels and sporty tones but at sales rep prices. I tried to get my Dad to get one as a company car, but he stuck with a Cortina estate……
Looks like a good day out James
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Ha! In 1974 i was supposed to get a Cortina estate as a company car but managed to swing a Capri 2.0S in red with black and white stripey seats!!
Clive
West Cork, Ireland
RGruppe #814
1978 SC/1984 3.2 Outlaw -Jaffa 911
1973 914 - on Webers - historic rally car- Tango 914
1977 924 2.0 on Webers street legal race car - Martini 924
1975 911/Flachbau 930 clone- too cool for school!
rhd racer wrote: ↑Sun Apr 05, 2026 10:13 pm
That Capri looks like the lesser spotted 1.6LS - a run off model with wide banded wheels and sporty tones but at sales rep prices. I tried to get my Dad to get one as a company car, but he stuck with a Cortina estate……
Looks like a good day out James
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Ha! In 1974 i was supposed to get a Cortina estate as a company car but managed to swing a Capri 2.0S in red with black and white stripey seats!!
My first was an Alfa Sud, followed a few months later by a VW Scirocco, which I had turbocharged by Janspeed...
My first car was a mk2,Escort before the VW scene took hold but never owned a blue oval since - although have a hankering for an Escort Harrier, 1600 sport, RS2000 or Capri 3.0s, but prices have gone mental and would need to sell the 964 and that doesn’t really work for me.
Still nice to look though…
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93 964 C2
99 Boxster 2.5 > 3.4 hill climber
71 914/6 3.0 - gone
'You see Paul, hill climbing is like making love to a beautiful woman. You get your motor running, check your fluids, hang on tight and WHOA..30 seconds later it's all over!' Swiss Tony
Perfect weekend for these old cars. Had a great drive through the Yorkshire dales with friends on Sunday along with some horrific weather including hail so hard we couldn’t see. All adds to the excitement. Then yesterday finally got round to fitting my red lenses and orange led indicator bulbs.
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Jonny
Current custodian of 1976 Porsche 912E, 1973 VW Camper
I’ve taken advantage of a few days off this week and the lovely weather we’ve been having in Norfolk, 993 went for a good run yesterday and it’s old yellows turn today
914 owners with side-shift transmission will recognise this: changing the bush in the gear linkage at the gearbox end. The session on the rolling road, where heat from the exhaust had risen due to lack of aitflow under the car, led to the plastic cover over the linkage, becoming dislodged, melting against the number one header pipe. This meant having to remove the main shift rod, which in turn showed up how much play there was in the bushing (which pushes into that hole you can see in the pic). That meant removing the conical screws that secure the linkage at each end. The front one was fine, but the one at the gearbox end had seized, and the hole for the allen key stripped... Had to hammer in a torx key to remove it... Even though the GT Racing header is wrapped with exhaust wrap, as you can see in the photo, it is so close to where the plastic cover and the accompanying rubber bellows over the linkage rod would go, I can see this becoming a regular problem, although to be fair, it has survived three years...
I have a similar proximity issue with my UJ boots on the Lola. For you, make a simple heat shield from thin stainless and jubily clip to the header tube about where the heat wrap is?
73T 911 Coupe, road/hillclimber 3.2L
Lola t 492 / 3.2 hillclimb racer
Boxster 987 Gen II 2.9
