Ford Capri 3000 GT V6
Reviewed by Unique Cars and Parts
Our Rating: 4
Introduction
The Capri 3000GT was released into Australia in 25th February, 1970, and then only as a 4-speed manual. Although a little pricey, it was an immediate success, selling 1,502 units to the end of 1970.
The 3-speed Borg Warner 35 automatic version was released later in the year and sold some 167 units before years end.
"The new shape of power for the '70s" was how the official Ford brochure described the 3000GT. Click the sports shift a few sweet inches, press the pedal and inside ten seconds, the white line is slipping by at a mile a minute.
Under that long, black panelled bonnet a 3-litre V6 engine is answering the call of highway or track with a pulse-quickening 144 horsepower.
And like all fine pieces of precision machinery, Capri GT/V6 is designed, built and equipped to handle the muscle: Sports
suspension, Wide track, Wide, safety-rim wheels shod with road-gripping radials, Servo-assisted front disc and rear drum brakes, Sports console housing a fast all-synchronised, close-ratio manual shift, or T-Bar automatic.
As for the inside story, you've got everything an international-class, high performance GT should have. There was everything for the ultimate in personal comfort to put the sheer joy back into driving.
Ford Australia sold a total of just over 3,000 V6 Capri's of which nearly 5 out of 6 sold was a manual. So, although automatics were scarcer than manuals, it's the manuals that everyone seems to want, and who can blame them.
I have a 1970 V6 Ford Capri which I am just about to sell.
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I am in the market to buy a manual 1972 v6 Capri in good condition .
I am busy have limited time to restore car any comments would be great .thanks mick
Before I die, I would like to own a HK Monaro V8, (pref Yellow GTS) !
.........buggered if I can even find one !
Mk1,1/2 as the Gearbox and Diff were different as well.... This beautiful car was kept under blankets in his garage for 15 years and never driven. After adding Shell VeePower to boost the stale LEADED fuel still in the tank, filling G/box with oil, and replacing perished/leaking fuel lines, I drove that Machine over 250kms home without one mishap, albeit with a noisy worn-out water pump, and one weak cylinder due to a burnt ex valve........ On that trip, with my wife following in a modern Prado, we passed no fewer than 3 broken down newish cars less than 10 years old ! This 1972 un-modified GTV6 Capri put them to absolute shame. Being a mechanic of over 40 years, I admit newer cars like my son's BMW E39 523i are extremely nice and extravagant with every creature-comfort known to man on-board, but this Capri GTV6, just like my early Falcons 351V8's and my Slant 6 Valiant and my other "old" cars just make me feel so alive and switched on, as I am driving the car and I am in full control; not the other way round, and I am loving every second of it!.... When I see the stupid Factory faults that occur on all post 1995 vehicles that get towed into my and my colleagues workshops, I despair for their owners, and it reinforces why I will never sell my reliable old cars that NEVER once have let me down or left me stranded in over 40 years. My newest car, a 1988 HJ61 White Lightning 4WD Toyota Land Cruiser Turbo Diesel, after 26 years, still has freezing Air plus Power Steer plus Power Clutch plus elec everything, without one fault in 26 years, and I could want for nothing more!.......... Drive safe everyone.
Mk1,1/2 as the Gearbox and Diff were different as well.... This beautiful car was kept under blankets in his garage for 15 years and never driven. After adding Shell VeePower to boost the stale LEADED fuel still in the tank, filling G/box with oil, and replacing perished/leaking fuel lines, I drove that Machine over 250kms home without one mishap, albeit with a noisy worn-out water pump, and one weak cylinder due to a burnt ex valve. on that trip, with my wife following in a modern Prado, we passed no fewer than 3 broken down newish cars less than 10 years old ! The 1972 un-modified GTV6 Capri put them to absolute shame. Being a mechanic of over 40 years, I admit newer cars like my son's BMW E39 523i are extremely nice and extravagant with every creature-comfort known to man on-board, but this Capri GTV6, just like my early Falcons 351V8's and my Slant 6 Valiant and my other "old" cars just make me feel so alive and switched on, as I am driving and I am in full control; not the other way round, and I am loving every second of it. When I see the stupid Factory faults that occur on all post 1995 vehicles that get towed into my and my colleagues workshops, I despair for their owners, and it reinforces why I will never sell my reliable old cars that NEVER once have let me down or left me stranded in over 40 years. My newest car, a 1988 HJ61 White Lightning 4WD Toyota Land Cruiser Turbo Diesel has freezing Air plus Power Steer plus Power Clutch plus elec everything, and I could want for nothing more. Drive safe everyone.
I always believe that ford made a huge mistake using the gt v8 falcons to beat Holden In touring cars and at Bathurst instead of this great car, I always beat anything that came at me including both the above cars.
They had two restrictions the first was the size of the inlet ports they restricted airflow, the second was the 5800 rpm limit that was easily fixed with an engine mod to the crankshaft once both were done they would run safely to 7500 rpms then they were absolute big car beaters.
To end I have owned several other performance cars and to this day the Capri is they only one my wife loved!
and was on the way home from a Short circut meeting at Tamworth.
Timing gear went at John's River on one trip, got towed to Taree and a back load to Sydney was $15 drove it from the depot home on 4 after taking out 2 plugs from the cylinders with bent valves.Painted it straight white no stripes no badges.Sold it 'cause the shock towers where cracking away from the rest of the body.I have a mate just rang me to brag about a Pirana he'd just bought so another Crapi would be good.