Perth Capri Cruise

05 July 2008

Quinton's Capri is currently getting stripped right back for a nice new paint job.

He has fitted a straight 3 liter engine from a skyline and added an over size turbo giving his Capri a serious power to weight ratio. May be time to upgrade the brakes next !!

Hopefully everything is back together and running by the next cruise - he assures me it will be !

06 June 2008

HOW ABOUT A BIT OF SOUTH AFRICAN MUSCLE !!!....

Hi everyone,

Just a quick note to introduce our latest member Daryl. Some of you may have met Daryl before at the All Ford Day (I think he parked his car next to Jenny’s 1600 GT)
Daryl is looking forward to meeting some more of us "Capri nuts"at the next cruise scheduled for some time in October '08.

His Capri is an original V8 Perana from South Africa, I believe there were approximately 500 of these built and probably very few left, there were also 30 V6 versions built which donned the Perana badge!! They came in 2 colours that I know off – Yellow (as shown above) and Peri Peri Red – please feel free to correct me on any of this information!!

For the real petrol heads out there, here are the specifics on Daryl's Capri :
It has the original 302w, 4 speed toploader and borg warner lsd diff. He is currently rebuilding the original block with: Forged pistons, 'H' beam rods, Aluminium Heads, Duel plane mainifold with 650 double pumper carby and headers.

Regards,
Paul

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22 May 2008

Disaster has struck...

Well folks, what a difference a day can make, or a few months for that matter!! Check the photo of Craig's capri at the cruise held in March, that paint job was one day old!!

And look at it now :-(

Last night Craig was idling his car in his driveway (fortunately he went inside to lock up) whilst in the house he heard a loud bang coming from the capri - after rushing out all he saw was fire bellowing from under the bonnet!!

As you can see the damage is quite substantial - everything under the bonnet is toast, after speaking to him last night he believes a fuel line had ruptured and was dripping on the extractors causing the fire - although an assessor from Shannons will verify this some time today.

The good news is the car is insured so I'm sure the Capri will be back bigger and better.

Moral of the story is I guess if your car isn't insured then get in touch with Shannons - www.shannons.com.au and the other moral is keep up your general maintenance!
Particularly those with the V6! The fuel line can be close to the extractors and fuel lines can perish - so in the words of Molly Meldrum - 'do yourself a favour' and check your fuel lines are in good nick - to prevent this kind of incident happening again.

Hopefully Craig's capri will be back on the road for the next Cruise in a few months.

Regards, Paul