I bought it in July last summer with 90490 miles on the clock, and used it to drive to/from work over that summer, and then I took it to uni with me, where it went on rather a lot of lovely drives throughout the Peak District.
The previous owner said he bought the car after it had been sat in a garage/shed for 10-15 years. He then restored it as much as it needed to get through the MOT, and left the aesthetics etc. for the next owner to do if they feel like it, for someone to use as-is. I was that next owner, and in the last year, I've done nearly 9000 miles, got rid of the modern CD player and put an original radio cassette in, and I'm now pricing up a full rust removal, welding where required and respray!
I've kept every receipt since owning the car, recording everything (oil changes, tyres, MOT, etc.) and the mileage it was done at. I also have every fuel receipt and a table with calculated MPG on it. It gets an average of just over 30 MPG, which to be honest, I'm pretty happy with! The best I've ever got was 34 on a run from Sheffield to Norfolk!
It's only let me down twice, once when a brand new set of points snapped, but luckily I had the spare in the boot (that was fun fitting them on the side of the M1 at midnight in the middle of November!) and when the accelerator cable snapped on me last week!
It's not without its issues though. I have a small list of things that are wrong and need fixing: the aerial doesn't go down, the rear wiper doesn't work, the heater motor doesn't work, the side vents in the dash are stuck open (fine in the summer, freezing cold in the winter!), there are a few patches of rust that need sorting, it doesn't start without pumping the gas a few times (after which, it starts perfectly), idles a little lumpy when cold, the auto-choke will bring it up to 2000rpm slowly, the paint is faded and ideally requires a full respray.
So, I think it's about time for some pictures. I'll add a few, and then post a link to the album on imgur!
After an interior hoover and clean out, but before an exterior clean and polish!
The main areas of rust.
The rest of the images on Imgur: http://imgur.com/a/zv0vO#0 (47 image album, with descriptions below some images).
Finally, it appears someone else likes my car. I Googled "capri d407thr" out of curiosity, and this is the only result that turned up!
http://www.fluidr.com/photos/129464815@N05/19177544594/
My car in work's car park
.So, I have a couple of questions now you've looked through everything:
From the descriptions and pictures, any idea what the car value would be now?
Any ideas on the cost to remove rust, weld and respray the car?
Thanks,
Liam
