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heathelect · Joined: 30 Nov 2008 Posts: 85

Can anyone identify this car ?, no prizes for the correct answer though !!!

Roger-hatchy · Joined: 07 Dec 2007 Posts: 2135 Location: Tiptree, Essex

Wild guess
Ford Classic?

47p2 · Joined: 24 Nov 2007 Posts: 2009 Location: Glasgow

I thought Classic too
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poodge · Joined: 23 Nov 2007 Posts: 687

Or,to be pedantically precise:Ford Consul Classic 315 Razz

Penman · Joined: 23 Nov 2007 Posts: 4880 Location: Swindon, Wilts.

Hi
Or could it be the Capri, which Capri Owners Clubs deny ever existed? Laughing

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Roger-hatchy · Joined: 07 Dec 2007 Posts: 2135 Location: Tiptree, Essex

It's the mirrors give it away Laughing

Rich5ltr · Joined: 28 Mar 2008 Posts: 681 Location: Hampshire, UK

heathelect · Joined: 30 Nov 2008 Posts: 85

Yep you all right, its the consul classic 315.the capri is known as consul capri 335.

a group of our cars at gaydon motor museum this year

Penman · Joined: 23 Nov 2007 Posts: 4880 Location: Swindon, Wilts.

lowdrag · Joined: 10 Apr 2009 Posts: 1600 Location: Le Mans

That brings back memories. I worked as a kid during the holidays at a chicken battery house and the owner had a Consul Capri that rusted out. I remember he welded the floor up with corrugated iron! Incidentally, this was one of the first battery houses and we used to change the hens every year in one of the four batteries but for some reason became attached to one hen which we secretly moved on to the next battery so she didn't become chicken paste. She died a glorious death in the end; we found her dead with blood everywhere and an egg which weighed 9 oz outside the cage. I t was a double yoker with another shell inside with yet another double yoker, so four eggs in one. Poor girl...........

Peter_L · Posted: Fri Oct 30, 2009 4:08 pm Post subject:

I remember launch night of the Ford Consul Classic and Consul Capri at Service Garage Barnsley.

It's ok to nit pick on names. (boring) but the Mk1 Capri was not even a glint in the designer's eye.

The public called them Classics and Capris

I remember once passing a "Capri" on the road to York, the trunk lid had been removed and it was transporting a huge chest of drawers.
There were ropes over the roof and down to the front bumper.
Needless to say the car was going fairly slowly and had a very "nose high" stance.

No digital cameras or cellphone cameras back then.

Rich5ltr · Joined: 28 Mar 2008 Posts: 681 Location: Hampshire, UK

Nice car! So basically the Capri club are wrong.