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Great pics Ron. You are a brave man removing the rear vent panel and plenum chamber panel. But, if you're going to do the resto properly, those things have to be done.

Now I'm sure you have thought about it, but make sure the joints and seams are very well sealed, especially around the joints under the windscreen rubbers.

Hmm - interesting - never seen the bulge removed b4 - boy oh boy the standard of some of these re-builds is really tops! Gives you xtra incentive....
bolting the rear vent panel on is a good idea!

Im up to the stage of putting a skim of filler here and there. Someone made a meal of fixing a spoiler to the bootlid and together with some rust holes it took me about three days to fix. Also, removing all paint under the bonnet and bootlid takes days. Everything now is bare metaled except the inside of boot. Its getting covered with carpet anyway. I now need to build a trolley to move the shell around and to the spray painters.

Thanks ds1900 this is my first attempt at a resto and i think it will turn out ok. I can tell you that the rotisserie is invaluable to me being able to access all areas and weld and grind the right way up. Its good to hear youve got the dport motor and an lsd. If its one of the eleven it will have been assembled in nov/72 and the engine/body number will match one on my list. You can private message me if you want. Cheers,,,ron.

Nothing much to report lately, due to a ten week work contract that has to be finished on time or else. My son is giving me trouble over the proposed paint job. Seems he wants to spend ten grand on a smik job. Trouble is i dont want to spend that much on paintwork. It will make the total spent around thirty grand and i think its too much. Besides i want a car that i can drive without worrying about scratching it. I would rather keep the money for ongoing repairs and mods. I also have a mk1 escort two door that will take about ten grand to put back on the road. I guess well sort it out. Meantime i still have to assemble the front guards and stone tray to the shell and get it all off the rotisserie and onto a trolley for painting. A factory option steering wheel sold on eBay this week for 272 dollars. When i got my esky home and pulled off the thick wheel cover there was a very nice factoy optional steering wheel underneath. Seems like the st. wheel was worth half the price of the car, ha ha.

JR if anyone can find one you will. With only eleven produced its like looking for a needle in a haystack. I dont know what the survival rate of capris is but you would think that there would be at least five or six out there somewhere. Of the seven that ford kept they could be anywhere in vic or nsw. Even of the four that were sold to bs stillwell one of those ended up in qld. (mine). So yeah, they could be anywhere.