Bonnet Pins

Hi GTV6,
 
I am a little surprised your capri didn't sell, I thought it was reasonable priced and you had a excellent ad description etc (maybe a little to honest). Maybe your location didn't help.
Have you thought about re-advertising on another website apart from Ebay (Ford Muscle car sales, Australian Muscle Car Sales etc).
 
Anyway back to the bonnet pin question.
This is my opinion and it is probably wrong, but I don't think there is a "correct position" for early Capri bonnet pins.
Early Capri's I consider 1969 to mid/late 1970, with low bucket front seats with the XW Falcon GT bonnet pins.
Later Capris as you know used the XY Falcon screw type (actually Mustang) bonnet locks
I believe that the bonnet pins on the early cars (XW Falcon type) where actually dealer fitted and their location varies from dealer to dealer.  
I have seen both types of pins used on 1970 cars and it is not listed as a option when you contact Ford (For example radio's, passenger mirrors, rostyle wheels etc).
 
Now this is only my opinion, and I am sure somebody will jump in and say but hey the bonnet pins are shown in the Ford parts books, but I think these are only for the brackets utilised for the later XY Falcon bonnet locks and not the early XW Falcon bonnet pins.
So your current position could be correct, or they could have been fitted later on in the cars life or maybe that was the position "Jonny" the apprentice at the dealership fitted them as part of the cars pre-delivery.
 
But hey I am probably wrong.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Hi Steve,
I am the guy who bought your Hot Orange capri from Ebay , lets be honest here it had nothing to do with paypal ,
everybody knows Ebay highly recommends paypal as the safest method for transactions, both buyer and seller are covered,and  because of the distance between us it was the safest method until a few facts were ironed out, you specified a matching numbers car in your ad title, yet you "refused" to reveal the engine number stamped on the strut tower, we also as you will recall asked you if it matched with the engine number on the block you would  have the balance in your account straight away.
You were the one to cancel the sale due to inconclusive identification so we were told and you followed your solicitors advise and cancelled the sale.
This was our last conversation, and i wont go into anymore intricate details of our conversations regarding the car as the forum is not the right place
 
Thanks
Mario

Would agree with other comments above.

Mine are slightly different one side to the other on the Silver car.

Have taken a few just to help out, but there are other Capri' s here much better than mine, and those with a heap more knowledge.

Hope they are of some assistance.

Darian.

Pics from underside of Bonnet, and Pins.

Hope they are what you're after.

Cheers,

DJC.

I can supply a set of the 72 brackets for $250 like new, and powder coated

Thanks Darian, that's exactly the pics I was after.  I wanted to see if they drilled the frame or had a different frame.
 
It can be seen in Terry's photos and the ones from the manual that the pins were closer to the centre in 69.  What I think happened is that they were initially drilled to avoid the bonnet frame, but when viewed from the top side they looked out of place so in 70 they moved them outwards and drilled through the frame.
 
On the bonnet flip that I saw, as well as wrecking the bonnet, the roof was all caved in, so now that more have been confirmed I am leaning towards keeping the pins and moving them in, or at least some sort of hidden safety strap.  Thanks for the offer JR but I will stick with correct year pins.
 
My listing had over 2500 views, 197 watchers and just 1 bid.  That tells me that the market for this condition/price point is way too small so I wont bother listing again until I have re sprayed it and corrected the interior.  Who knows I might be able to have a crack at that record price once it's done 
 
Thanks for all your input.

Just got my copy of the Ford verification letter, option 47 delete hood lock pins.  Never knew that was an option - always learning something new about these cars.  Also I notice the mirror is RH only option so someone along the way has added the left mirror.  I guess removing that for 'originality' would be a dumb thing to do, so another tick for not worrying about 100% originality and keeping the bonnet pins.  Maybe I will even add dummy vents and over riders.