Another New Guy From California
Posted: Fri Feb 08, 2013 6:56 pm
Greetings from Rod in Westwood, California.
I happened upon this site looking for paint codes for Mark I Capri�s. Thanks for all the information posted and all the member posts.
My brother and I have always owned Fords and both had Mark II GT Cortina�s new in �67 and �68 and had friends in the early �70�s who had hot rodded Capri�s while we were drag racing early �70�s Pinto�s. We drag raced the Cortina�s too. We had hot rodded �54 and �57 fords prior to that with a FE engines and T10 4 speeds. I had a �65 Mustang I ordered with the handling suspension, disc brakes, 289, and 4 speed and established a track stock class record with it at the old Irwindale Raceway drag strip. I still have the track record certificate hanging on the wall but one of the exxes threw all the old trophies in a dumpster. Thank you dear. My brother had a �62 Anglia he was hot rodding when we had the Cortina�s and Pinto�s new but I asked him what ever happened to it the other day and he said he honestly could not remember.
Now I have 2 �68 Cortina GT�s, 8 Mark I Capri�s, 1 2000, 3 2600�s, 4 2800�s, all 4 speeds, a �73 Pinto sedan 2000 4 speed, a �72 Pinto wagon 2000 4 speed, a �64 � Mustang 289 4 speed, and my brother has a �67 Ranchero that I regretfully sold to him that he has completed with a modified 351w.
We go to hot august nights in Reno for a week every year with the American cars and one year I took a Cortina and another year a Capri.
I picked up 2 mid �80�s Thunderbird Turbo Coupes with T5�s to transplant drive trains into a couple of the little cars but we�ll see if we ever get to them.
Anyway I attached some pictures of some of the little Fords that I have from old floppy discs since I didn�t back up everything on my old desktop and the hard drive went south a couple of months ago along with all my pictures. The orange Capri is a �74 with �72 bumpers and a �72 interior. It is a 2800 4speed. The wheels are 14 inch Carroll Shelby�s from the �60�s or �70�s that I got from a guy who had ran them on a Sunbeam Tiger. It has a personalized license plate now that reads LTL FORD. The Cortina is apparently an early �68 because it has the gauges atop the dash but has a cross flow and my other �68 has them in the dash as did the one I had new. It is running 50 series tires on 13 inch American Racing rims I bought in the early �70�s. It is stock otherwise and now has a new ebrake cable (no wheel chock), wiper arms, and a personalized license that says 68 GT 4D. The white Capri is a �73 with a modified 2800 with the same manifold and headers as the orange car but with ported heads. It pulled 158 hp at the rear wheels the only time it was on a dyno.
I happened upon this site looking for paint codes for Mark I Capri�s. Thanks for all the information posted and all the member posts.
My brother and I have always owned Fords and both had Mark II GT Cortina�s new in �67 and �68 and had friends in the early �70�s who had hot rodded Capri�s while we were drag racing early �70�s Pinto�s. We drag raced the Cortina�s too. We had hot rodded �54 and �57 fords prior to that with a FE engines and T10 4 speeds. I had a �65 Mustang I ordered with the handling suspension, disc brakes, 289, and 4 speed and established a track stock class record with it at the old Irwindale Raceway drag strip. I still have the track record certificate hanging on the wall but one of the exxes threw all the old trophies in a dumpster. Thank you dear. My brother had a �62 Anglia he was hot rodding when we had the Cortina�s and Pinto�s new but I asked him what ever happened to it the other day and he said he honestly could not remember.
Now I have 2 �68 Cortina GT�s, 8 Mark I Capri�s, 1 2000, 3 2600�s, 4 2800�s, all 4 speeds, a �73 Pinto sedan 2000 4 speed, a �72 Pinto wagon 2000 4 speed, a �64 � Mustang 289 4 speed, and my brother has a �67 Ranchero that I regretfully sold to him that he has completed with a modified 351w.
We go to hot august nights in Reno for a week every year with the American cars and one year I took a Cortina and another year a Capri.
I picked up 2 mid �80�s Thunderbird Turbo Coupes with T5�s to transplant drive trains into a couple of the little cars but we�ll see if we ever get to them.
Anyway I attached some pictures of some of the little Fords that I have from old floppy discs since I didn�t back up everything on my old desktop and the hard drive went south a couple of months ago along with all my pictures. The orange Capri is a �74 with �72 bumpers and a �72 interior. It is a 2800 4speed. The wheels are 14 inch Carroll Shelby�s from the �60�s or �70�s that I got from a guy who had ran them on a Sunbeam Tiger. It has a personalized license plate now that reads LTL FORD. The Cortina is apparently an early �68 because it has the gauges atop the dash but has a cross flow and my other �68 has them in the dash as did the one I had new. It is running 50 series tires on 13 inch American Racing rims I bought in the early �70�s. It is stock otherwise and now has a new ebrake cable (no wheel chock), wiper arms, and a personalized license that says 68 GT 4D. The white Capri is a �73 with a modified 2800 with the same manifold and headers as the orange car but with ported heads. It pulled 158 hp at the rear wheels the only time it was on a dyno.