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Originally Posted by kingy351

The current issue of Australian Muscle Car Magazine (has a replica of Moffs 73 Hartop on the cover), has a story on the MK1 V6 Capri GT's. A very interesting read.

This car was previously owned by the parts officer (JR) at our club.....(Terry (brock071) is our president, by the way). Its a brilliant car.

I'm lucky enough to own 3 Capris including a Mk 3 that I'm restoring. It was unfortunate that they didn't bring the later Capris out to Australia, but I don't think it was a question of them being unpopular back in the day, that slowded the sales, and eventually canned importation....It was more a question of the price of a GT Falcon (not much more) and the Capri being caught btwn the economical Escort and the practical Cortina. Many people I've spoken to wanted to buy a GT Capri, but at the time it just didn't add up.
There is an upside to this....They are a lot more rare and are now being appreciated as the muscle car they genuinely are. Comparison test showed the Torana GTR was a little short on performance compared to the V6 Capri, hence the introduction of the XU1 Torana (which, in cult status, is like the Aussie Holden version of the UKs RS3100)....and I hate to say it got me interested in Capris when I couldn't find one that I could afford....even 20 years ago.