Hi Rob,
thanks for the update; that 5 foot tube may be able to be rolled up into a small scroll to carry on plane  
As long as your "new" tyres look roadworthy, and aren't date stamped, you should be ok: I recently learned that they won't pass RWC if they're 10 y/o or more, no matter how good they look.
The quadspokes sound expensive to me esp given the 10 y/o tyres, but I'm a tight arse and only spend money when there's no choice !  .........ultimately they're a personal "thing", and if you love them and they make you happy, then they're worth every cent.........to hell with what anyone else thinks!
I've never had time for any mainstream sport, as the corruption, rigging, brawling, fighting, sledging, discrimination and money hungry fat cats that make billions out of it.............make me sick to the nth degree, so I give them all a big miss; life's too short for rubbish.  Barely got enough time to enjoy and repair/service my many cars.
Cheers
Bernie

If you ever consider to restore your car, I really think your better suited to be driving a jewel green.
Happy to swap a restored gt for you.

Thought you may be tempted to auction it off Beevee, if they can get $300k for a XA coupe surely your 1 off 1 Capri has to worth at least 1/2 that amount 

It wasn't this one was it?

apparently Found On Rubbish Dump, quite fitting.
There was another that came up not so long ago that'd been rolled back in the 80's and left to rust since.
Not sure what happened to either of them but they seem to have gone.

Getting back to being on Topic, it's been some 7 years since buying my GTV6 with about 5 of those years using her at least one day out of every 10. Amazingly, the previous owner of some 10+ years reckoned he never touched the Carby!
After stripping the motor, which has the same matching number as on the Shocker Tower, and on the Tags, and found it in impeccable as-new condition bar the Ex Valves, one thing I also never touched was the 38DGAS Weber Carby, as it performed brilliantly from DAY1 to today. Having overhauled my fair share of Carbies for the last 40 odd years, I know to leave well enough alone, especially if a Carby is ok and is protected by a Genuine 100% NOS Z14 Fuel Filter.
These Italians at Weber sure knew their stuff when they designed their products, as OLD Aussie RYCO Australia knew when building Filters pre 1990.
From memory, so good were Webers designs, that I believe Holley copied Weber under Licence and they too enjoyed reliablity with many Ford/Autolite Carbies.(UIVMM)
The Holley on my 1965 AP5 Valiant is a case in point: single barrel Holley has been there since my Aunt purchased the Valiant brand new as has NEVER been over-hauled in over 100,000 miles(160K). Bowl alone was removed some 35 years ago for solely a squirt of Carby Cleaner and put back! EVEN the simple 1965 Remote Bi-Metal Automatic Choke is still working as-new to this day!  Must have something to do with non-abusive driving and garaged every day of its life ?
 
I wonder if anyone here has purchased an aftermarket repro of the Weber DGAS or DFAV that is commonly seen on ebay, and could they please comment as to their performance and longevity  ? (Fake Weber)