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xpackmk2
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hi i am from just outside reading and i own a 1984 1.6 Ls
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"Understeer" is when you hit the fence with the front of the car.
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"Horsepower" is how fast you hit the fence.
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xpackmk2 wrote:hi i am from just outside reading and i own a 1994 1.6 s
May I be the first one to congratulate you on your amazingly rare car (or careless typing skills! :mrgreen: ).
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Hi there,

I'm from Reading. I've got a MKII 1.6 GL which i'm hoping to get back on the road soon...anyone know where get alternator brushes from?!
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19-2litrelaser-85
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hi mate your not from lower earley are ya ? theres a mk2 silver capri up one of the roads along rushey way i think it is, used to see on me way to work, also got a mk1 fezza ?

if it is you well done mate both nice motors, was gonna pop up to u one day and see if u wanted to join the club were after a mk2...

i came up there last weekend in my mk3.

hope this is you otherwise i jus been blabberin :oops:
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LOL, yeah you found me...

The MK1 Feista is gone now :(
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yer mate I thought it was you as soon as you said mk2 in reading that you were restoring!!! :cool:

yer I did see the mk1 on ebay and thought I recognise that car!!! the numberplate I recognised the most I woulda had that if I had the room, you most probably have seen me drive around in my XR3i...as I used to work in Icelands...not anymore though. I did come past your house the other day, I saw the garage open and turned round and came up your road was gonna stop and have a chat but you had gone inside :|
Ill have to pop over one day and take a look as I live in Finchampstead only about a 10 minute drive :P see how your getting on.

the mk2 looks clean mate I was looking at it when I first saw it outside your house.

I only looked because I spotted the mk1 Fiesta....cos I've got one too 8-)

so any plans for the mk2? I was chatting to one of our members today at the club meet and we had a mk1 join today and we were saying we need a mk2 now, and I turned around and said, I know of one in lower earley I'll have to pop over one day and persuade him into the club ;)
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The plan for the Capri is to have it on the road for about september. It will be finished before then, I just don't have the money for insurance etc!

So your fiesta, is it blue by any chance???
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oright fair enough, is it gonna be standard then ? think when I came past your were spraying under the bonnet.

na the mk1 is cardinal red, but you wouldnt have seen her as ive had her 5 years this year and she aint been on the road in about 10 years!
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More or less standard, just a few 'light' improvements such as MP3 input, electronic iginition, more efficient light bulbs etc...
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fair enough mate sounds good to me. keep up the work on it then mate. should come to one of our club meets we have each month. dont have to bring a Capri :P always good to thought, there was about 7 yesterday
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hi folks, im murray from Ayrshire, on the West Coast of Scotland. jus bought a near mint mk3 2.0 laser. metalic blue. totally original. 3 owners from new and 93k. will post pics as soon as can get camera working.

got few small plans for it. lower it an inch, polybush it, and make it a bit noisier :D
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nice one mate hope it goes well, yer get them pics up 8-)
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canterbury,kent.... :burnout:
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Hi all, :wave: I'm Lee originally from Hertfordshire but recently moved to Dorset. Just about finished the rebuild on 3.0S X pack in white - Stripped out, slammed down and caged up
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Me , with the 1984 2.8i special (Mineral Blue over Strato Silver) i am South Of Cambridge - Not far from that Imperial A
ir Museum at Duxford !
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keith here moved to portsmouth in december from enfield . I got a cosworth 24v project that was a 2.8 special that im hoping to get finished and also a 1970 cortina 1600e that ive still not got on road never seem to have enough time or money to complete them :cry:
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Cristchurch - mmm a great place to be right now :-)
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Chrome_GT wrote:Cristchurch - mmm a great place to be right now :-)
I hope your car wasn't damaged. Thats one hell of a cleanup you guys got there.

Oh Yeah, Im Steve From Brisbane. and i drive a 280.
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Hi mate, im Stuart, live near Spalding in Lincs.
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billymagfhloinn
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Limerick, Ireland. Few Capris knocking around my area.

One family in particular near me, dad, two sons and a nephew all driving Capris, and often break them for parts.
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