I had a Lime Glaze '73 capri.  It was actually built in October 1972, but first reg in jan 73, therefore a 73 model as was the recording system back then.  Chances are the advertised one is similar  

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I had a Lime Glaze '73 capri.  It was actually built in October 1972, but first reg in jan 73, therefore a 73 model as was the recording system back then.  Chances are the advertised one is similar  

A 1973 model, mmm, this is based on the UK idea of K, L, M, etc reg plates, which I disagree with also! I believe that the model year is what is shown on the Vehicle Identification Plate, based on the alpha characters, ie. in Australia ME is 1972, August! There are no 1973 Mk.1 Capri's in Australia, unless they are imported from the UK and built in 1973, as shown on the Vehicle ID Plate, my opinion! Same goes for the Capri280 Brooklands, they were all built in 1978, November, (DD) hence there are no 1987, 1988 or even 1989 Mk.3 Capri's! Once again, my opinion.

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Terry to get it straight all Capris Mk,1 have ck17me?????p numbers. Built one after another until August 1972. They would have received paint not much else? Thing is that when they were completed in factory from that point is my point. A car made in August could make it until 1973 to be sold and Ford would put a final build date until then. I well agree no Capri was built after August. 95 percent positive of that.

Keith, I think you meant to say that all Capri's Mk.1 assembled in or after August, 1972, through to November, 1972, had the CK17ME*****P Chassis number system. I believe that this occurred due to the fact that the UK received the 'Update' or 'Facelift' model in September, 1972 and, as we didn't, Ford Australia wanted to ensure that our Mk.1s weren't confused with the 'Facelift' Mk.1 or maybe they were instructed to do that from Ford UK. The 17 in this code indicates a GT variant, which could be a 1600GT or a V6 GT, though it could be also be a 14 for Deluxe or a 30 for the XL!
 
Now, I do know that ALL the eleven 'Specials' have the ME code for 1972 (M), August (E) and of these, one has 'final build date' of 8/72, 2 have 9/72 and 2 have 11/72. To my knowledge there is NO Australian assembled Capri that has a month stamped on the ID plate after 11/72.
 
Murray's 'Special' is the only one that I have ever seen that has the 2 plate 1973 Ford system, ie. 1 plate is the Vehicle ID Plate and the other is the ADR plate yet, it still says 8/72. All the others have the single standard 1972 ID Plate. Ron's was purchased on 8 May 1973 from Bib Stillwells in Kew, Vic, but they are all still 1972 builds.
 
Finally, I have the four pages of yearly build sheets from the Homebush factory and they indicate numbers assembled per month/year from March, 1969 (J=1969, M=March) and they stop in November, 1972, which is when all assembly of Capri's ceased. I have done an awful lot of research into our Australian assembled Capri's and I can back up what I say with hard copy evidence, as above. Cheers, Terry

Weren't they stamped on the line before paint?

Here's my Homebush sourced production sheet for 1972 and as you can see there are all models still being listed as being assembled in Sept, Oct and Nov, 1972! But why didn't Ford Australia use the ML (Sep), MY (Oct) and MS (Nov) codes used for the Vehicle ID Plates, as you would expect? The mystery continues ....