Oh the joys of owning classic vehicles.

[fossyant]

You realise, once you know stuff about cars, the 2.8 had about 150 bhp, so not quite as awesome as you thought as a kid. Still, I liked 'em, my dad had a MK2, and a cycling mate had a Mk3 2.0 - he used to swear that the bag of sand in the back improved the handling...... He had it years, didn't look after it, and it eventually fell to bits....

 

[Mr Pig]

You might, at a push, get away with that for the 2.8i, but the 1.6 brings to mind words like "rice" and "pudding" and "skin pull".

Ha ha, yeah :0) I liked the styling of most of the Fords of that era but calling the Capri a muscle-car is a bit of a joke. Styled after an American muscle-car maybe but they were pretty gutless. Did they not make a 1.3 version?

My mate had a MkII 1.6 Ghia Escort, lovely car.

 

[Jim_Noir]

Sure they had no baws, but still as close to a muscle car as anything else that came out og the UK. Was it the laser that was the top of the range model, I remeber a guy along the street having one... tiger skin seats too... class

 

[fossyant]

The Laser was a poshed up LX bit sportier - Ghia's were the most Luxury, then the 2.8i's and the final 280's and Brooklands ones...

 

[dellzeqq]

life is full of surprises. Hitherto Hilldodger (we've never met) had always struck me as the Basil Rathbone, or Peter Cushing type...

henceforth I shall imagine him in a Courreges style all-in-one

at least, with a Capri, you are guaranteed to get the girl

 

[Mr Pig]

Sure they had no baws, but still as close to a muscle car as anything else that came out of the UK.

True, but that's like saying the white pencil in your drawer is closer to a Saturn V rocket than any of the other pencils in your drawer!

It's not a muscle-car, end off. Muscle-car, the clue is in the name ;0)

 

[Jim_Noir]

Pfft I say, as close to a muscle car as we have had
Or maybe the Rover 75 v8, the one with the mustang engine is it

 

[dellzeqq]

Bristol 406. I saw one the other day. It was tiny.

Of course, there are those that should never be spoken of (viewers of a nervous or refined disposition should look away now........)

 

[Bigtwin]

Pfft I say, as close to a muscle car as we have had
Or maybe the Rover 75 v8, the one with the mustang engine is it

I seem to recall that the PI Triumphs were faster than the Capris?

Jensen Intercepter is more muscley for me too.

But not actual muscle cars.

 

[theloafer]

here,s 1 for you hilldodger...

 

[GrumpyGregry]

British Muscle Car? AC Cobra surely?

 

[Hilldodger]

Not really British, though.

British Muscle car - V8 Aston

 

[Bigtwin]

We have all missed the obvious.

Austen Allegro Vanden Plas.

Too hot too handle.

 

[dan_bo]

I was sat in one of these last night, but with a silver roof-one owner from new. B-E-A-U-T-I-F-U-L.

 

[Hilldodger]

I had a Lotus Elan for a while.............it was so unreliable that I bought a Renault 20 to use while I was fixing it.

I swapped if for an Series 3 XJ6 in the end