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Thing is I can't believe it still had the same rego from the show. Pity too cause it looks to be in top condition.
They should have a car obituary page going!
 
Love the opening to the show where Terry drives the Capri into the yard and talks turkey with Arthur. Can't hear anything cause that mindblowing song by Terry is pumped up! Got it on my playlist too.
 
BTW my mobile ring tone for as long as I can remember has been The Professionals theme song. Now that's 

Mark, thats sad on both counts  :) (comign from someone who had Postman Pat, and Dr Who as his ringtone)
Guess for Marty's Q:Did Bodie actually have an Escy before the Capri? I dunno, but i'm guessing that the answer for part B is it had a sunroof fitted to aid filming??
 
So Terry's caught fire...
next question: but what happened to the professionals Silver Capri, and did you agree its the same??

https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/cars/article-3549336/Bodie-s-Ford-Capri-hit-Professional-sells-record-55-000.html
 
It was funny cause in the first sereies they drove everything. Maybe they got their cars from Arthur bloody Daley!
Then for a while they seemed to flip between the RS and the Capri. It was in the last series that Doyle drove the RS and Bodie the Capri.

The pic where they are shaking hands over the bonnet, my eyes always fixed on the mk2 Escort Xpack in behind them, i always wanted one , nearly 40yrs on I'm still no closer...
Trivia, that Xpack mk2 has disappeared off the registration map, whether it's being restored or it's long gone

Marty, I have a mate with an X Pack. To be restored from Memory. I'll ask him if he thinks this will happen in his lifetime or whether he may want to move it on?
Yes indeed, I would have ditched the old Capri for the X Pack any day. What was Terry thinking

Thanks Mark, all I really need is the front flares and front air dam and can convert mine over , will keep it tango orange in colour too.
Be interesting to know the price of your mates Xpack tho 🤔

Drewdog
I remember the rear bumpers being pinched from the old mans Anglia van when I was a kid, haha and him swearing about it and saying they were probably on someones Escort now
 
I can share some tricks with the Mk2 factory a/c alot of the parts were shared between the other Ford models, TE Cortina, Falcon etc.
 
On to another one, whats different about the door glass in a Mk2 Escort Ghia? and which other models got this feature?

 Hi Drew
was it that the Mk2 Escort Ghia were one piece without 1/4 vent like Capri ? or was it rare electric operation ?

Interested to know whether any Australian Escort Ghia's had power windows? Had a 76 Ghia and it definitely did not.
A friends mums TF Cortina Ghia had power windows (not sure if only on front windows?)

No Escort had fast windows.. a good driver can reach over to crank the passenger window down or up while driving... Well I did lol
Yes some Cortina TF models that were 'loaded' came with power windows. My brother had a TF wagon 2.0 fully loaded except sunroof, had ps, pw, ac , auto, plush interior, no central locking from memory , it was a Ghia S or X can't remember as was in the 90s, slow as a wet week too.!

Trivia time

Fords 4x108 or 4x 4.25" stud pattern goes way back to 1958 with the Anglia 105e and is still being used on the Fiesta and maybe Puma models ..

.. And apparently the belhousing bolt pattern from the Anglia, thru escort, Cortina, Capri etc kept going thru to the end of zetec in 2004, but rumours have it that the 3cyl 1ltr Ecoboost motor brought it back and is once again being used !!