New Member - A little history

Hi,
Have attached a photo of my 1970 V6 as well as a couple of the shed it will soon be housed in(I hope!!)
My wife and I move from WA to SA 9 years ago and the car stayed stored in a garage at our Perth house which we were renting out. Unfortunately it sustained some cosmetic damage, a few dents, scratches etc. from people entering the shed, putting things on the car etc. no respect. I had used the car in the Perth Classic Rally a number of times in the 90's and really since that time it hadn't been use much at all. I'd made a few mods to compete in the rally, lowered front coils, negative camber, ventilated discs and a higher horsepower motor. Recently, before the car was shipped to SA the original motor, which was laying on the shed floor for many years, was completely rebuilt and refitted and I'm currently working on returning the car to stock standard. Luckily apart from the few mods I made for the rally the car is very original, interior is untouched and in very good condition, I think because I've owned it since 1982 there hasn't been an opportunity for anyone to butcher it. Those with eagle eyes will notice the different sized tyres front and back, these have been put on as a temporary measure until I can acquire some Rostyles or Contessas for it. If not I will continue to use the wheels on it with new tyres.
Once I finish the new shed I will have a decent place to work on the car as the current shed at my son's place, which is where it's now kept, is very cramped and not really suitable for any major work. The concrete floor is the last piece of new shed to be completed. This is the last shed I will be building, it nearly killed me!!! I am very excited about moving in though.
This gives a little history of the car, I'll probably have a lot more questions and requests once I get back to Australia and start working on the car again (We're currently on hols in Thailand, heading to Russia tomorrow, back end of July). As I've said before I'm amazed at the amount of knowledge and expertise of the members of this forum and hope to use some of it for my car, hopefully I can give something in return. I don't feel quite so isolated now that I can communicate with fellow Capri enthusiasts.

Great story Timmo...............and I love that shade of blue. You're so lucky to have owned your beautiful Capri since 1982 !  Glad to see you kept the original Engine to go back in....... Was it born a V6 from day 1 ?
Can't see if it's manual or automajic ?  ...........  that great shed is enough for 4 Capris ! 
Enjoy your holidays !
BV (Melbourne)

Wiggy333
Nice car and shed Timmo. Hope we can help use the shed I mean car sorry I meant help out.

Once it's finished any Capri is welcome to use it.

Nice to see another survivor.  Are you going to also go back to the foot pump for the washer?  Sure they are original but you wont know when it starts leaking until some damage is done and you cant rest your foot on it.  If not then might as well not worry about the bottle being correct.  Depends if you are going for concourse or not.  Will you be going back to original white?

I changed mine to electric years ago so I will have a look in the shed for the old bottle.
 
I moved my headlight switch to the dash facia so I have headlight, spotlight, dash lights and wipers in the 4 spots.  I reversed the dash light switch so that it lines up with the others when left in the on position.  I then fitted another wiper switch where the headlight switch was and wired my washer pump to it.  Foot pump was ditched leaving a nice space for a foot rest.

I've got an original one in good nic but converted to electric, though I'm sure it would be a reliable one for your V6 Timmo.