And another non-Porsche project - 1974 Capri V6

[Arne]

Side glass and trim is all in place now. Still waiting on more parts.

[Arne]

New headliner snugged into place and glued from the B pillars forward. Will begin final stretch and fit on the rear half tomorrow.

[Arne]

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.

[Simonjjb]

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

[Arne]

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.

[larwik]

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...