A drive around Dagenham in the final Ford Capri – a V6-engined 280 special edition
In February 1964, four lads from Liverpool touched down at New York JFK airport. By April, they occupied the top five places in the singles chart. Beatlemania had landed, and Mustang mania wasn’t far behind. Launched that same month, the Ford didn’tsurpass the Fab Four, but it still became the fastest-selling car of all time, shifting 680,000 in its first year. Amazingly, the record still stands.
The 1970s were the golden age of the Capri. Lurid paint colours such as Signal Orange, Jupiter Red and Bermuda Blue brightened up Britain’s streets, often accessorised with vinyl roofs, rear window slats and RS alloys. TV detectives Bodie and Doyle drove Capris in, while Dieter Glemser and Jochen Mass won European Touring Car Championship titles in the RS2600. By the time the Mk3 arrived in 1978, though, the Capri was starting to lose its lustre.
There are roughly 70 cars and vans here, including at least four Capris. The rarest – a Ferguson four-wheel-drive Mk1 – is up on ramps being prepared for Goodwood Festival of Speed, while a silver Mk3 slumps forlornly on four flat tyres, clearly awaiting some TLC. I find ‘my’ 280 lurking between an RS 200 and Anglia, its deep Brooklands Green bodywork gleaming beneath the overhead heat lamps . With broad haunches and a power-bulged bonnet, it looks every inch the European muscle car.
The ‘Cologne’ V6 bursts crisply to life, its fulsome burble reverberating off the workshop walls. It’s no all-American V8, but blip the throttle and the whole car shimmies on its suspension. You don’t getin an XR3i. Edging out into the drizzle, I skirt the perimeter fence alongside Ford’s own railway line to the factory gate. The security guard does a double-take, then salutes as he raises the barrier.
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