Welcome Bernie. 
You need to join the local Capri Car Club (www.capricarclub.org.au) and bring your 'special' along to Small Ford Sunday at Seaworks, Williamstown on February 2nd. All Capri's will be on show in the big shed celebrating the 40th anniversary of the RS3100 Capri. See you there? Also, we have Federation Square booked for Australia Day on January 26th from 11:00 to 2:30, should be a blast!
Keep on Capri'n, Terry

Bernie, you're most welcome to come along to Small Ford Sunday, as it's open to anyone with a 'Small Ford'. Fed Square only has capacity for 30 Capri's and I'm afraid it is for Club members only. The Club does however cater for people with multiple cars, including different makes, within reason, so long as you own a Capri. Food for thought anyway. I look forward to seeing you around the scene somewhere soon, cheers, Terry

Hi all,
does anyone know, or could pose a guesstimate, of what "top dollar" would be should I decide to sell my SEP 72 "delete" GTV6 manual with D Port heads and in almost orig condition, with RWC but no reg ?
.............also does anyone have any pairs of Super-Roo f guard Decals and how much please ?
cheers
Bernie

I bought my car in 2005 for $7500. It was pretty straight, had a worked engine, limited slip diff and 24mm sway bar. It was in need of a complete restoration and I think I paid about $1500 over the average value for a car in that condition at the time. ( the seller wasnt told that i used to own the car in the seventies until after the car was secured on my trailer).  Then over a period of five years of spare time the car was rebuilt costing another $13000.
The car is insured for $30000 and the insurance company queried this until i showed them detailed pics.
How much is all that labour worth? I dont know but any buyer will have in mind how much time and effort it will take and will want some incentive to do it.
$10000 to $13000 seems reasonable from a buyers point of view, but I could be wrong tho get more opinions. Sometimes when something like this is sold at auction it brings way over what most thought.
Cheers,...ron.

Capri has been running really ratty lately with steering shake, heavy steering and knocking from front end at parking and turning. I thought it might be the "gland" nut that holds the shock insert had come loose as it had in the past so this week i jacked it up and pulled the wheels off to have a good look. Also the steering wheel straight ahead position kept changing.
So this is what i found.
Gland nuts, tight.
TCA inner bolts, loose.
The six crossmember bolts, loose.
Swaybar to tca nuts, loose.
Swaybar brackets bolts, loose.
The total of all these loose bolts was causing some ordinary handling i must say. Out for a test drive and and the difference is immediately noticeable. Light steering, opposite lock and steering from the rear, just how i like it.
This teaches me that after a few thousand miles from rebuilding, check the torque of all suspension bolts. Some of these bolts were real loose.   Cheers,...ron.
 

Good tip Ron , glad you found out before it could have been tragic.

Good info there gtv6.
What was causing the steering to move off centre slightly came down to a loose bolt holding the tca to the crossmember. Also the steel sleeve in the tca was larger than the bolt in the crossmember allowing the tca to move in and out on the loose bolt. Its all good now but its probably a good idea to change over to metric bolts for a better fit.
Regards,...ron.

I'm guessing you bought the shell on Gumtree. I checked the numbers and it's not one of the specials. I enquired about the car but the guy never responded.