I asked to come see the car before making a bid and even asked to see if it didn't sell as I was a cash buyer. You kindly told me no even though I would never buy a car off a picture or sight unseen. Irrelevant now as I've picked up two farm finds and a new running capris anyways. But it always pays to show a little respect to people as you never know how fat there wallet is....

Attachment says it all.
Clearly stated, bidding starts at 25k, then the question is asked so how much do you want for it? wow, either can't read or a numpty, maybe both.
People like this are the reason I don't sell cars, just build more garage spaces

Yeah, some people who made enquires were great but decided it wasn't for them, which is fine, that was the whole point of writing such a detailed ad, but I also had lots of messages from obvious bargain hunters.  Where Btad fits I don't know.  I didn't contact him or anyone else because I decided to keep the car.  Nothing to do with respect.
 
But the process was good in that I found out about the pins and we have a thread for future searchers to refer to about correct location of early bonnet pins, and that Ford had an option to order a car without them. 
 
I have decided to keep the pins but move them to the correct position and will also put the badges back on, fit dummy vents, over riders, mk2 diff centre, a rear louver,.....and an electric washer bottle.  Will probably paint with the slight pearl again, I really like it.  So it will remain close to original but not exact. 
 
Very unlikely that it will ever be offered for sale again.   Who knows maybe a hot orange with country suspension and delete bonnet pins is a 1 of 1 car or at least a 1 of 1 survivor......slightly modified 

Gtv6 not having a rant about it not going my way. Earlier on the post there was a comment about it not selling or to close to Xmas but my point was I would have bought it that's all. As for the all ford day I wasn't there but nice to know there's people out there with multiple capris as well I met a gentleman the other day who had 8 in his shed. Was one of the greatest things I've seen. Gts xl deluxes was like a fat kid in a lolly shop.