Sarnie

Just the one, still my daily driver after 18 years...

Sits nicely on the track, I see you've done some aero work on the rear, how do you find it on the fast bends, is it still well balanced or is a front splitter on the cards ? I did about 10 laps of the Nürburgring in mine about 15 years ago as I was passing. At around 1650kg and just under 200bhp it wasn't particularly quick It much prefers trailering duties...

Cheers all

Hopefully for good this time, have done it a couple of times before, powerfiling the rust away, treating and painting but always comes back. This time I cut it all out.... Here's why it always returns, rust between the bonded seem.... Lastly back of panel was sprayed with Bilt Hamber Dynax S50

All the 3's this morning , and it's still working hard. Will be doing a 250 mile round trip to Donington this weekend trailering the race car. Also passed it's MOT last week with no advisories

Great collection of Capri models there, I must have well over 100 Capri's in 1/43 and 1/18. Particularly partial to ones with a number on the door My 1/18 RS 3100's....

It had to, they were racing against CSL Batmobiles

The Works 'Group 2' Capri's had a Watts Linkage and Coilovers at the rear, the leaf springs were just glass fibre dummies.

Ex Works Capri with Essex V6 based Cosworth GAA, 450bhp @ 9000rpm.....

Another hangover from the diesel design was the larger crank journals which meant high surface speeds if using a lot of revs. Used to change my bearing shells every 6 races.

The standard Essex V6 only made a very asthmatic 138bhp and never liked revving anywhere near 5000. But they could be made to work very well, 3.0 Capri's cleaned up in Production Saloon Racing and Group 1 Touring Cars through most of the 70's and into the 80's. I used them for 11 years in the race car and served me very well winning 4 championships. Started out in 1987 with 185bhp and later on had 300bhp revving to 8200rpm, with the close ratio gearbox it never came much below 6000, so a slightly different animal to standard ! Was behind this tidy looking Sierra Estate on Monday, still not seen another E34 Touring this year...

Still lots of love for Capri's, never been without one since 1981, had many over the years but only have the race car now, owned it since 1986 although I think the tailgate is all that remains from the original car. Out testing last year, first race in a couple of months after a long break..... Had a Granada 2.8i Ghia X back in the 90's, great towing barge....

You beat me just, bought mine on 2/12/2000 Mines still the daily driver, now coming up to 330k and still going strong.

Plenty of good places to watch, although being one of the longer tracks you can't see everything from any one place. Probably best to wander round, depending on size of the meeting the infield area may also be open, accessed by tunnel from the paddock. Jonathan Palmer recently acquired the circuit to add to his other MSV tracks, and has been busy over the winter improving facilities and giving it a lick of paint. One of my favourites, raced there many times, and hopefully back there in September.

Still using my E34 as a daily and definitely not longing for a new car. I think new cars should be painted Appliance White as they're about as exciting as a new fridge freezer ☺ Drove a newish Volvo V50 for a month last November, very civilised and easy to drive but ultimately very boring and uninvolving, couldn't wait to get back in the E34. Seem to spend a lot of time in Greater London traffic these days which the E34 still copes with no problem. Just this afternoon I spent 90min doing 15 miles to work at Heathrow, poxy traffic ! Seems to get more and more attention the older it gets (now owned it 18 years), on Wednesday at 5am a lorry pulls up to my right at some traffic lights and starts sounding his horn, I'm thinking what's up with him, so look up and he's leaning right across his cab smiling and giving a thumbs up. Sorry never owned a Sierra but drove lots of Cosworths back in the day. Owned many Capri's and still have the one in my sig. Looking to get a Puma for some cheap fun, my son bought one for £177 last month, usual rusty arches (wonder who will be doing that job, hmm), great fun to drive though, never thought I would say that about fwd.