Or the wheels were a dealer fitment.

[:0] You must be pretty happy with that Ron.

Ron I have a better pair of engine bay decals, I'll send them with your lights

I must say that things look very good so far, bloody good in fact. That engine bay looks excellent.


Jamie

Thanks for your positive comments Guys.
I decided to do a dummy assembly of all the panels to make sure everything fits reasonably well. Can you imagine having all freshly painted bits and then finding that there is fettling to be done to make it all fit?
Im a builder so am familiar with the concept of fitting doors with a even margin all around. But working with a base (the bodyshell) that is fixed and 36 years old and been thru a few scrapes is something else.
So I started with the bonnet setting it so it has an even margin at the back and also making sure that the latch in front fits into the hole in the slam panel.
Next I fitted the two doors with a even margin at the latch ends and making sure that the hockey stick lined up with the rear panels.
Next the front guards and this is where things can get a bit tricky as it needs lining up along the bonnet and also the vertical margin against the door whilst keeping the top of the guard level with the bonnet.
How did I go? Well considering that ford quite often got it wrong in the factory I think Ive done reasonably well in my shed with limited experience.
Another point is that the margins in the seventies were set larger than today so theres no point in trying to get everything real close as it simply wasn't made like that in the first place.
Then the stone tray which is also "bolt in" was attached without too much drama.
Finaly Im real glad on deciding to dummy fit the headlights as it requires a great deal of time and patience to get these right.
Ill try and get some pics up of the fit of these panels soon so you can see what im rabbitting on about.
Now to get my painter galvanised into action.

That is one nice engine bay!!! Nice job [:u]

hi there im new, i pulled a capri out of a barn, in a faded orange colour that had a rs v6 and upgraded suspension, high back seats with cloth trim, it had an engine fire so no comp plate but i do have a chassis and engine number, the engine has the centre mount fan and the later rs stlye casting of the engine block thanks for any help
Owen.

Welcome aboard. Pics would be good to help us ID what you have

Hi Owen welcome to the forum. It must be exciting pulling something like that out of an old barn, I hope it is rebuildable.
As for its identity shame about the id plate but the body number and engine number will tell a story.
There cant be too many v4 about either would like to hear about that too. Cheers,...Ron.