Maybe I should have asked my friend my friend before driving it, as I was wrong on the wheels. Originally, this car had 15 and 3/4 inch wheels, which are $400 per tires. The reproduction wheels are 16".

In the late 1990's I was driving to work in my 1995 Mustang Gt. It was about 7 in the morning on a Saturday in Scottsdale, Arizona. One of these pulled up next to me at a red light. I glanced over and saw an older man behind the wheel who was smoking a Sherlock Holmes pipe. He took the pipe from his mouth and looked over at me as he smiled. IT WAS DONALD SUTHERLAND!! I was in a bit of shock when the light changed and he took off. I tried to catch him but with the jump he had on me and his lighter weight car he was gone... TRUE STORY

I still have my 84 Capri with T tops and bubble back window. My wife has stop asking me to get rid of it she know it will be here long after she's gone

When you look back, Mercury made some great cars. It’s really a shame that Ford cancelled this division

My mom had one of those when I was a kid in the early 90s (not an RS turbo). I believe it was a 5.0. My favorite memory was Dad taking us to the intersection just down the road and doing donuts, which were even better since we lived on a dirt road, and it threw up some really sweet roost tails of dirt and gravel. Sad that it was rusted beyond saving.

To be honest though, I like seeing older, bone stock cars still in showroom condition like this. Get in and its like stepping back in time. That is a very cool car, and another nice thing is, it isn’t a rolling computer like cars now

The Capri actually lived on in the US as a Fox body until 1986. I had an '86 5.0 with the 5 speed; one of the best cars I ever owned. People couldn't figure out 'what kind of Mustang?' it was, lol. Its quirks were the wheel center caps (Cougar) on the same rims as the Mustang GT, and the steering wheel had a Cougar on it vs. whatever the Mustang had; the aerodynamic hatch glass (first seen on the '84 Capris) were actually functional (not to mention there was never a 'sedan' notchback version nor a convertible) as well as the fender flares all around were functional and could enable slightly wider tires vs. the Mustang. The '84-'86 Mustang could arguably be considered the better looking of the two, but I had always lusted after a Capri without realizing it was rare, but eventually found my '86 at Bob Beatty Ford in Simi Valley, Cal. in 1989. Score!

"the mullet of cars"

Don't worry, Hoovie. If you jack up the rear end & run it in reverse for a while the miles will come off the odometer. I saw it in a movie once.

Sorry, Hoovie, but you're wrong. The Ford Capri wasn't killed off in 1979 when the Fox body came along. They might have stopped selling it in the US, but the Capri continued to be built and sold in Europe until 1986, with the last cars, the Brooklands edition of the 2.8i not being sold and registered until 1987 in the UK. To be honest killing the Capri in the US for a US-built car was a no-brainer for Ford as, due to the differences in build and specification required for US markets, the US Capri was an expensive car to build in Germany and then add in the taxes and import tariffs applied to imported vehicles in the US that made it a much more expensive car than it was intended to be so relatively few were sold in the US. Replacing it with the Fox body, and killing the awful Mustang II, made a lot more sense and it proved extremely popular over its nearly 15-year production life and it remains an extremely popular modern classic now. Killing the US market Capri also freed up production space in Germany for European Capris which were popular cars in Europe and the UK, even at the end of the line, when the mk3 Capri was 9 years old, the last cars sold out unusually fast for an end-of-line Ford that traditionally sit around in dealers for ages and then end up being sold off at bargain prices as ex-demonstrator cars. It did, however, end up with an interesting situation where Ford had two cars competing in the same market segment in Europe, where the Fox body was also officially sold...

1986 was the last year of the Mercury Capri, when Ford updated the Mustang with the Aero headlamps. The 1986 Capri also had the bubble hatchback, and smaller tail lights, it was a cool looking car.

It's crazy how much the technology improved from this point in just a few years. I had an '86 Mustang SVO that's also a 2.3L turbo, but it made 200 horsepower and it was a blast to drive once the turbo kicked in. Fuel injection was a huge part of it. 15 PSI didn't hurt either.

The original rims were 390mm rims (about 15.35 inches in diameter). I had a 79 mustang with those and you had 1 choice in tires (Michelin TRX). I'm glad someone made "knock offs" in normal sizes. They look great.

Back in the days of 180 hp Corvettes...

Cool fox! I've had several foxes, my first was an 85 GT , my last was a 93 GT. Just awesome cars, easy to build for any kind of racing! I live the Capri fenders, and quarters!

I had a 79 Mustang Turbo (looks identical). You forgot to mention the biggest quirk of those engines. The turbo was placed AFTER the carb, so the turbo had the final fuel/air mixture in it :-)

Bubble hatch Capri's are rad and getting rarer every day. I use to see them all the time but now they've faded into unfortunate obscurity. If you can find one buy it. They aren't getting any cheaper.

My sister had a 1974 Ford Capri and a 1980 Mercury Capri. Both had 4 cylinder engines and were yellow. Do the "Merkur" XR4Ti next!

My first car was the '83 black beauty version. She carried an inline six with a manual 4 speed. She had all the available trim including A/C despite the T roof. Being made for the Canadian market she lacked most of the emissions garbage. PCV valve and something resembling a catalytic converter and that was it. I liked it because it was different from the little Chevy Chevette economy boxes that were popular with most us kids at the time ( early 90's ) I paid 500 dollars for it , but I had to purchase another set of aftermarket wheels for it, because of the stupid wheel diameter.

Mine has a 302 with 4 speed over drive 4 the gear ... I still drive it today.