The Capri looks pretty good anyway - but even so you sometimes can't
resist pampering it!
Natalee's Capri makeover
This labour of love, with Harlequin PPG paint and a yellow
leather interior, took second place at the 2001 Summernats in both the "Best
Interior" and the "Best Exterior". It also featured in Fast Fours & Rotaries
magazine.
Nice paint
Looking good?
Maybe size does count
Two new Capris were cannibalised by a New Zealand
enginering firm to make this limousine for a theme park, at a cost of $NZ65,000. It was
later owned for a while by the Variety Club of NZ, but for several years now (September
2003) the car has been in the hands of Shelley & Darryl Honey. If you'd like to see
this car up close and personal, check out Darryl's Dinner Cruises at Bay of Islands, North
Island, NZ.
And believe it or not, each of the other vehicles below is also derived in
some way from a Capri.
The "Yellow Mantis": Julian Bowyer's
Capri-powered trike
I was driving past the ABC studios in Dickson ACT in early April 2003 when
I saw this weird-looking machine, like a refugee from a "Mad Max" movie. I
stopped to look more closely, and found that the driver/rider, Julian Bowyer from
Nottingham in England, was on his way around the world on a Red Cross fundraiser.
What really surprised me was that the engine is a twin-cam 1600 from an
Australian Capri convertible, which Julian had fitted to his trike in Sydney after the
original VW flat-four blew up.
Julian's own website has the full story of his journey so far.
Capri-bodied dragster
This for-sale notice is all I have on a Capri-bodied dragster from
Victoria. If anyone has any more information on this car, please contact me.
