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04-13-2004, 10:37 PM
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looking for a car
hey. im wondering if any of you might know where abouts in NSW you could get a 1969-1974 model capri. ive been looking all over the web but i haven't found anything in australia. any way any help would be useful.
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04-13-2004, 10:42 PM
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i'd probably look in Just Cars magazine, they dedicate about quarter of their book to fords so you should be able to find something
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04-13-2004, 10:52 PM
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have you been to carsales.com.au?
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04-14-2004, 03:45 AM
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well im afriad you might be stuck just keeping your eye out in the Trading Post for a private sale
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04-14-2004, 04:57 AM
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theres definately Capri's out there for sale, ive seen them myself for sale in Just cars magazine so i guess that decent ones get snapped up pretty quick. if you do find one, dont hesitate to make an offer or anything because i can gurantee if you dont show enough interest to the buyer, someone else will
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04-14-2004, 06:55 AM
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Tradeing post is more then likly your best bet....if failing that thereis a company that imports perana capris from south africa....excelent perfoemance but charge a premium for the vehicals...usually around the high side of 10k to the low side of 20....
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04-14-2004, 07:09 AM
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no suprise there... there around the 10 to 15 from what ive seen but i know that they had 351 some where else may have been in africa oh well well see what i can do besides im looking for where i can get them how much etc and if there too rare i'll get the first one i can get my hands on.
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04-14-2004, 07:18 AM
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351 in a capri would be suicide, i know the south africans put the 302 in the Sierra but that could handle the power and torque.
when your spending over 10K you may as well look at a Falcon GT, XA-XB gt's start at around 10K whilst XW-XY's start around 15K for decent ones
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04-14-2004, 07:27 AM
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Well they came out with 302s not 351s...they used windsor not clevlands and weighed in at 1020kg...manaul top loader versions suggestable for an experianced driver...
The seirra was a saphire body with an aussie built 302 clevland and it was called....GET this the XR8 it beat ford aus by roughly 4 years....
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04-14-2004, 07:35 AM
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well the aussie built 302's and 351's were supposedly stronger than even the clevelands, making them a favourite with drag racers, but with the XR8 bit i guess its all water under the bridge as the very first was the cougar XR7 of 1967
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04-14-2004, 07:57 AM
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Yeah wellif you want strong ina clevland get a NASCAR block a guy at the nats had one and pulled a 10,000rpm burnout....sound was incredible....
Well do you know how the couger xr7 got its name? neiter do i but you can garentee its not because a of a 7 cylender engine 
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04-14-2004, 08:01 AM
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well i would expect a NASCAR block to withstand loads that high, same as i'd have similar expectations for an SVO 302 block. well the XR7 wasnt the only car to have the XR monicker and have a different amount of cylinders, there was also the XR2 late model capri that obviously wasnt a 2 cylinder......other than the falcons the only model to follow the trend was the XR4 Sierra
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