Ford Capri 2.0 L
The salesman wouldn’t let me test drive it because he didn’t think I would be able to handle the power…
Cracking sales technique looking back now.
The photo isn’t my car, same colour and model but I had steel wheels(painted white) and mine would have been right hand drive obviously.
I got the rear wheel drive I lusted after but soon realised how expensive rear tyres are. No more donuts.
I got this beast up to 110mph on the Ely link road, never has a car built outside of the USA handled so badly. The front end lifts so you can’t see where your going and it fails to go round corners.
Looking back it’s hard to believe how spartan cars were in the 80s. It would probably have had a radio as standard but I fitted my own radio/cassette player and some big thumping speakers in the parcel shelf. It had a heater and… that’s about it. Winders on the windows, no central locking, just a universal key that could be used on 25% of all other Fords of the same era.
I was working in Cardiff and would have to leave the car in the works car park most weeks while I went away with Brian to work at clients premises all over the country most weeks, inevitably I would come back and find it had been broken into, thank goodness for those rubbish door lock, nothing needed to get smashed to gain entry. After the first break in nothing would get stolen because I never left anything in there again.
Despite everything I really did enjoy this car, I eventually part-ex’d it for the MG Metro Turbo I think.