Hi all, a sneak peak of my latest Capri.
1970 Hot Orange GT V6 4 Speed.
It is an early car with the rear vent in the bonnet.
It has a documented 96,000 miles on the clock and nice and original, matching engine no etc. (dont worry the white wheels are no longer on the car).
I am the 4th owner, and I purchased it from the 3rd owner who owned it for just on 12 months and had some very silly plans to modify it.
So hopefully I have saved it.
The 2nd owner had the car since 1973 to 2012 and kept some very detailed history.
I have contacted him and he is great guy and also sent me some pictures from the mid 1970's. It was a very interesting chat to 2nd owner who regretfully sold it.
It does have a couple of usual wear and tear items, but nothing to serious and I am slowly going over it and replacing a couple of worn items at the moment.
Future plans are for a fresh paint job mainly due to paint being faded and getting a bit thin in a few spots and a couple of minor things that need tidying up, this will be the cars first re-paint. I keep forgetting these cars are over 40 years old!
I am wondering if this is one of the lowest milage documented GT V6 Capris going around? 
The original selling dealer was Bib Stilwell as per owners manual, and verified by Ford Verification letter.
It also has a small silver Bib Stillwell silver sticker in the engine bay with a stock number which also matches number in owners books.
I am in two minds as to how far to go with a restoration, I am thinking about leaving the car as original as possible and not re-spraying underneath and inside as it nice and clean as is, or should I just bite the bullet and give it a complete make over?
Regards and open to all comments good and bad.
Also I am curious when Capris went from having a 3000 GT front guard badge to a 3000 V6 badge? 
Regards
 

Also I am curious when Capris went from having a 3000 GT front guard badge to a 3000 V6 badge? 
From what I hear the 3000V6 long badge is unique to Australia, - vaguely recall someone saying somewhere that the first batch of Aussie 3lt GTs  (APR '70) had a '3000GT' front guard badge... UK used 3000GT long plaque style, and at some point changed to a shield style 3000V6 badge.
Others would be more knowledgeable of badge details .

The first batch of GT/V6 Capri's (40 in all) were assembled at Homebush in January, 1970, all were manuals until the first auto version appeared in August, 1970. The 3000GT front guard badge was used initially, being the UK sourced badge and it was replaced later in 1970 with the 3000V6 Australian issue, exactly when, I'm not sure, but somewhere around mid-year to August, 1970. This change was part of many that occured as Ford Australia tried to ramp up the local content of these cars. My understanding is that the best they got to was around 40% Australian content and this is one of the major reasons for the Capri being dropped from production in November, 1972. 

What a beaut car and with good history and documentation........
I can understand your dilema of how far to go with it, speaking for myself I'd do the bare minimum, I have a nice low milage car, it does have a couple of 'warts' but only ones that I really notice. Its taken great control to leave it alone, whilst they bother me I think by fixing them I'd loose too much of the other things that make the car what it is..........
If you do the underside keep an eye out and photgraph all the paint splashes on diff suspension etc. Would love to see the pics I'm a bit of a nerd for all that sort of stuff
Good luck with it what ever you decide and once again, cool car!........

Was this the one with the aluminium aircraft fuel cap?

I'm fairly sure that's the one JR. I was thinking about buying it when it was for sale by the 2nd owner.

You've been patiently waiting for the right car for a while now so well done.  Some advice on paint.  I resprayed my car over 20 years ago.  It had some crazing so I sanded it down, primed and resprayed.  I didnt go back to bare metal.  Now all the crazing has come though and there are some big cracks in the paint.  So if its going to be a keeper, take it back to bare metal and respray it in 2 pack.  I am now 20 years older and the idea of a full bare metal respray doesnt excite me, but it has to be done this time.

Well spotted JR, yep was a Melbourne car.
 
According to 2nd owner he fitted the fuel cap in the 70's it was from his mates Bolwell or something like that.
The pic he gave me from the 70's had the funky fuel flap, luckily he kept the original and he didn't have to modify any of the body etc to fit.
I have fitted the original fuel filler and flap and kept the other as piece of the vehicles history.
 

What a great Capri. I'm a big fan of orange Capri's. With regards to paint, I would keep it original if at all possjble as they are only original once.

Well done on getting a 3000GT now I know why you are moving the 1600 on. I'm still hunting.