Side glass and trim is all in place now. Still waiting on more parts.
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Side glass and trim is all in place now. Still waiting on more parts.
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New headliner snugged into place and glued from the B pillars forward. Will begin final stretch and fit on the rear half tomorrow.
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It's been a little slow lately, but today things started to break loose. I finished the headliner last week, and so today I picked the Capri up from the glass shop with both front and rear glass back in place with new rubber and chrome lock strips. The car is finally weather tight for the first time in many years. In honor of the new all-weather capability, I quickly installed the new/restored period-correct wipers. I'm also working now on final gauge testing before reinstalling the dash pad.
And more good news! The new seat covers arrived from France this afternoon. Will share more on these later, but initial impression is they are really nice.
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Looking Awesome! I had a 74 Ford Escort 1100 in NZ back in the day. Of course that meant you really wanted a Capril.....or an RS1600
More fun with electrics. While working to refit the dash today, I installed the gauge cluster for testing. And everything worked... at first.
While testing all the warning lights, suddenly I caught a whiff of magic smoke escaping, and the dash illumination lights all came on by themselves, and would not go out. After pulling the cluster back out I found that there were some rather crude repairs to the printed circuit at some of the bulb "sockets", and one of them shorted and burned a section of the circuit. [Big sigh!]
So add another foreign country to the parts sources list. So far I've bought parts from Germany, England, Denmark and France. Now I found that there is a shop in Australia that has reproduced the printed circuit sheet for these cars. I've started the order process now.
While I wait, I removed the damaged traces so that I could install the gauges and drive the car while I wait. Apparently the only damage was to the dash illumination. I don't plan to drive at night, so I can get by until the new part arrives.
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Arne.....Great project and the car looks really good in Gemini-Blue ;) and the US-bumpers looks just fine.....as usual, "Murphy" is always around but you'll fix-it and it just adds to the memories...Best of luck.../ Lars...
Note to self - I like having A/C in a street car so that I can drive through the summer months, but the factory A/C in a Capri really complicates the dash and underdash plumbing. It's worse since I wasn't the one who took it apart, and I've never seen it assembled. So it seems like everything I do has to be done two or three times, as I find some new bits to do the more I put together. I'm getting close now, pretty much all that's left is the glovebox. I'll be glad when this part of the project is behind me.
Side notes - The new circuit sheet for the gauge cluster is still in Queensland, but is "booked for flight".
The new seat covers from France seem to be quite nice, but I found that no headrest covers were shipped despite the website indicating that they would be included. Turns out that in Europe and the UK Capris did not come with headrests, and the supplier told me that the item description was in error and they do not have a pattern for Capri headrests. So I'll be sending one of my headrest covers to France to use as a pattern as soon as I can get one removed from the foam and reinforcing plate.
My clock was working fine a few months ago when I hooked it up for testing, but only works in spurts now. Dang!
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Yep my first car a 73 capri didn’t have headrests. On 911 the headrests were optional in England even for the RS with sport Recaro seats and that in a car that cost almost twice the price of a e-type jag when new.
If I had a buck for every time someone whined about the bumpers, I wouldn't be over budget on this car now.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lordsman
They are original, and would cost a pile to backdate properly. It's not happening, and everyone should forget that and move on.
...lol....:)