Wow thanks guys. Thanks for the comments and code info! And the warm welcome.
 
Yeah it is certainly a time warp. Im not concerned that it wont be worth what the toranas are. I just like to save beauties like this as there's been too many cars of all makes, put out to pasture and left to rot. Im not fussed about the holden ford thing. Far as im concerned a cool car is a cool car. And with no more Aus manufacturing who cares anymore what brand it is. Classics are classics!
 
I saw another thread on here about the price of the mirrors. Crazy! At this point I plan to hang onto them as this car is very original and id be loathe to change any of its characteristics.
 
I was very happy with the purchase once I got it home and had a good look at it. It was on Ebay for sale by a bloke who had no ebay history. Zero feedback, and was in Newcastle! I bit the bullet and bought it at the last minute for 8k. he told me he got it about 18 years ago to restore and its been sitting in his shed for 17 years. he said he accidentally broke the windscreen by falling on it years ago, so took it out but never got around to replacing it. Then he wanted cash into his account and I started to get a bit worried! But plenty more phone calls and he seemed like a nice guy.. I have contacts with a guy who moves boats and caravans around so he backloaded the car and the extra engine and got it down here in Vic for me for 400. But once I had a god look at it and saw how original it really was I was wrapped.
 
Yep I can take photos of the strut tower. Happy to post pics of anything anyone is interested in as theres a good chance its all original. The second owner Gray Merryman, was a school teacher who was apparently very fussy about his car. I made contact on another forum with one of his ex students who told me they got to go for a drive in it in year 12 and it was pretty quick. Apparently he took the badges off the car as he was too worried about them being stolen n the carpark by students. Which explains why they were in boxes. He also didn't want to change the car in any way, so bought an escort to modify instead.
 
It does have some good options on it. Perhaps that's because the first owner was the wife of a ford dealer? Perhaps he was able to order the back seat? I can post pics of all the service history if anyones interested. Its pretty cool.
 
The interior is pretty good. It will need the seats retrimmed, but the headlining and the doors are good. Door trims will need new backs at least.
 
Unfortunately the blue car is too rusty to save. Ill post some pics up and youll see what I mean...
 
Thanks for the link to the parcel shelf. Ill check it out.

BeeVee, those mirrors are not for your car, yours was fitted with XY-XC units.  Not sure the early items will hit those dizzy heights again (MK2 cortinas had them too....) Great find Hainsey, that colour is getting rare now.  Interesting the car has cloth inserts, they would have been the very gaudy orange check type pattern, very hard to find now.  Keep updating with your progress and always seek advice before buying things your not quite sure of (I have lost count of the amount of people who end up with cologne V6 parts thinging they were the same as Essex V6 etc etc) Cheers JR 

Thanks JR
I think you meant to say XA-XC as XY never had these XA-XC mirrors. May have a chance to buy a 1970 GTV6, and so shopping around getting what I can when it presents itself.
kind regards
BV

Heres some pics of the aluminium strut tower tops. Are they unusual? I haven't seen any other Capris with these that I can recall. Theyre looking a bit second hand. Hoping they might polish up Ok.
 


 
Heres what the blue deluxe looks like. I think its only just short of having rabbits living in it, so its really only good as an organ donor.



 
The engine is Ok though. Apparently it was running fine but Ive never had it going.

oops. heres the other pic.

Motomobil do nice recon strut tops exchange.  Just send them some old escort ones for the exchange.  http://www.motomobil.com/
 
I have never seen that type of strut top before.  Your car was around 20 years old before it went into storage so has probably been tinkered with a little in that time. 
 
Grab the chrome corners from the donor car screen and put them away, hard to come by these days.
 

hainzy
oops. heres the other pic.

Are these tapered. Hard to tell from the photo.
Around 1983 I made 50 pairs of these with cast aluminium housing and polyurethane to make it flexible. The later ones were polished. 

on ebay - $11700 so far - decent money for a restorer.

Yeah Ive come to the conclusion that I just don't have the time or money to do this resto justice. Or space.. I have 6 cars and 3 garage spaces so something needs to be parked outside. I thought it best to handball this onto a Capri enthusiast who will give the car the TLC it deserves. I wish I could keep it as its such a beauty of a car but the money will be handy. I might also sell off my VH commodore top 30 dealer special too but ill sit on that decision for a little while... Very interesting to see what this goes for, as youre right, it needs a full resto but it is a very original and honest project.