{"id":163,"date":"2005-06-07T14:20:00","date_gmt":"2005-06-07T13:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twistedpear.org.uk\/?p=163"},"modified":"2019-01-26T12:07:21","modified_gmt":"2019-01-26T12:07:21","slug":"the-mk3-capri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twistedpear.org.uk\/?p=163","title":{"rendered":"The Mk3 Capri"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rob1tt.f2s.com\/capri\/DCP_0016.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"WIDTH: 295px\" height=\"213\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rob1tt.f2s.com\/capri\/DCP_0016.JPG\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rob1tt.f2s.com\/capri2\/DCP_0016.jpg\"><\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/twin-turbo.blogspot.com\/www.rob1tt.f2s.com\/capri2\/DCP_0016.jpg\"><\/a><br \/>The MK3 Crapi.<\/p>\n<p>Bought in May 2005 for \u00a350, it had no front wings, rot in the strut top mounts, no bumpers and would rather stall than rev.<br \/>Sourcing wings was more trouble than I had imagined. But they turned up in the end and after a few short weekends worth of work the car was looking solid. Then interest and bad wether got the better of us..<\/p>\n<p>I gave it a new set of ignition componenets and set the timing up and it ran a lot better, the car was bolted back together&#8230; And then my mate decided he needed his garage back to put a MK1 golf in..<\/p>\n<p>A few weeks later the car went to a new owner in exchange for another Sierra ( Car 15 ). And so my brief foray into Capri own<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rob1tt.f2s.com\/capri\/DCP_0011.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 200px\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rob1tt.f2s.com\/capri\/DCP_0011.JPG\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>ership was over, I had only driv<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rob1tt.f2s.com\/capri\/DCP_0013.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 200px\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rob1tt.f2s.com\/capri\/DCP_0013.JPG\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>en it about 50 yards! <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rob1tt.f2s.com\/capri\/DCP_0015.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 200px\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rob1tt.f2s.com\/capri\/DCP_0015.JPG\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rob1tt.f2s.com\/capri\/DCP_0014.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 200px\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rob1tt.f2s.com\/capri\/DCP_0014.JPG\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rob1tt.f2s.com\/capri2\/DCP_0009.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 200px\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rob1tt.f2s.com\/capri2\/DCP_0009.JPG\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rob1tt.f2s.com\/capri2\/DCP_0008.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 200px\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rob1tt.f2s.com\/capri2\/DCP_0008.JPG\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rob1tt.f2s.com\/capri2\/DCP_0007.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 200px\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rob1tt.f2s.com\/capri2\/DCP_0007.JPG\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rob1tt.f2s.com\/capri\/DCP_0021.JPG\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rob1tt.f2s.com\/capri\/DCP_0012.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 200px\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rob1tt.f2s.com\/capri\/DCP_0012.JPG\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rob1tt.f2s.com\/capri2\/DCP_0003.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 200px\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rob1tt.f2s.com\/capri2\/DCP_0003.JPG\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rob1tt.f2s.com\/capri2\/DCP_0004.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 200px\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rob1tt.f2s.com\/capri2\/DCP_0004.JPG\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rob1tt.f2s.com\/capri2\/DCP_0005.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 200px\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rob1tt.f2s.com\/capri2\/DCP_0005.JPG\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rob1tt.f2s.com\/capri2\/DCP_0006.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 200px\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rob1tt.f2s.com\/capri2\/DCP_0006.JPG\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rob1tt.f2s.com\/capri2\/DCP_0016.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 200px\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rob1tt.f2s.com\/capri2\/DCP_0016.JPG\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rob1tt.f2s.com\/capri\/DCP_0017.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 200px\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rob1tt.f2s.com\/capri\/DCP_0017.JPG\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rob1tt.f2s.com\/capri\/DCP_0021.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 200px\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rob1tt.f2s.com\/capri\/DCP_0021.JPG\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The MK3 Crapi. Bought in May 2005 for \u00a350, it had no front wings, rot in the strut top mounts, no bumpers and would rather stall than rev.Sourcing wings was &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"post_folder":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twistedpear.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twistedpear.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twistedpear.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twistedpear.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twistedpear.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=163"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.twistedpear.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":297,"href":"https:\/\/www.twistedpear.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163\/revisions\/297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twistedpear.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twistedpear.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twistedpear.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=163"},{"taxonomy":"post_folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twistedpear.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fpost_folder&post=163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}