72 Blaze Blue V6 Barn Find

I thought it was about time that I posted a note about my current project car. I don't know the exact definition of 'barn find' but this car should be considered one. This Capri had been parked in a shed and not used since 1986. The car still has the 1986 rego label on the windscreen.
 
In terms of the car the details below from Ford give a good summary:  
 
Model Code      13218 - Capri 2 door 3000 GT   
Engine Code     P - 3000 CC 2V 
Transmission Code       X - 4 Speed close ratio floor shift    
Paint   M - Blaze Blue 
Trim    W - White      
Options 03 - Seat belts (mandatory)
10 - Sunroof
27 - Mud flaps (mandatory)
52 - Sports road wheels
56 - Driving lights
73 - Deluxe pushbutton radio   
Tyres   99 - 175 x 13 Radial ply tyres 
Date of Manufacture     August 1972    
Retail Dealer   1549 - Carl Robertson Ford, Southport QLD      

I was sold on the virtually rust free body, the very rare Blaze Blue colour with white trim, the factory wind back sunroof (I have never seen one) and the triple weber engine. I've had the Capri for a little under 2 years now and have been progressively restoring it. Once I learn how to upload some photos I'll post them.
 

Very nice sounding Capri with lots of factory options.
Blue with white trim sounds awesome.
 
 

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Sounds awesome. Cant wait to see the pics!!

Here's the link:
http://s1277.photobucket.com/user/apjukes/library/?view=media#/user/apjukes/library/?sort=3&page=1&_suid=136721685761808735417777572614

The engine bay was a real mess which made the purchase a bit of a gamble. Pretty much all of the factory press marks and shape under the bonnet was covered in either filler, sheet metal of both. I'll load a couple of photos becuase it needs to be seen to be beleived. There were places where they was an inch deep of filler. I would have sanded and chipped out 5 litres of bog if not more.

The previous owner made the changes during the street machine era where smoothing out your engine bay and hiding your wiring was all the rage. Thankfully all of these changes can be relatively easily undone which supported my decision to complete a factory original restoration. Im not out of the woods yet though as anyone who has has panel and paint work done would know!





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I remember that car when it was advertised. It looked pretty good, but the engine bay was smoothed out and the radiator support panels appeared modified. Looking at your pics, the engine bay was obviously factory original underneath a layer of body filler.

I'm glad there'll be another project car to follow, and a blue one too!

Cheers
Jamie

Thanks all for your comments to date.
 
I haven't heard of the 'chicken sheite' but what was done to the engine bay on this rare car was '****e'. I've added some more photos to photobucket of the engine bay clean up process where most of the factory shapes were covered by sheet metal and filler. Check out the battery tray (the actual tray was removed from the car and the radiator panel it fixes to was completely hidden until we stripped off the metal and filler etc).
 
I've also added a few sunroof photo's for those interested also. I have catalogued all the Golde part numbers (not that they are much use to anyone as you can't get replacement parts anyway!).
 
The panel beater is going flat out on the car this week and has almost finished removing the flared/rolled front and rear guards and returning them to original. He's also made good progress repairing some minor panel damage on the inner guards and restoring the engine bay to original.
 
The link to photos is: http://s1277.photobucket.com/user/apjukes/slideshow/

The engine fan idler mount is *not* above the crankshaft pulley, as apparently found on the D-port motor (AFAIK).  
Another sign would have been no knob in front of the carby mount, but you now have the triple downdraft manifold conversion (ooh ahh !!!!), and roller rockers?.
 
Still, the rest looks genuine V6..........

The work stripping the engine bay must have produced a bit of profanity (as well as dust).