Ford Capri

November 9, 2024 fishyfisharcadeLeave a comment

If there was one car that most teenage boys yearned for when I was such an age, it was the Ford Capri – Britain’s version of the fastback coupes and saloons from across the pond. It was obviously smaller than it’s transatlantic cousins, and was supposedly a bit of a pig to drive – stories abound of having to put a bag of cement in the boot to improve the handling – but it looked cool and Bodie, from the popular TV show The Professionals drove one.

Ford recently brought back the Capri name in a new model, but it really doesn’t have the same appeal, being a boxy, squashed-looking design nothing akin to the sleekly desirable air of the original versions.

Here are a few old Capri’s at this year’s Classics on the Moor event in Sheffield.

Fujica GW690 & Kodak Ektar. Lab developed. Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro.

Taken on 18 August 2024

35mm · Film photography · Photography

Capri in colour

June 2, 2021 fishyfisharcade1 Comment

Apologies to anyone hoping to see the beautiful island of Capri in this post. Instead you are going to get an infinitely cooler Ford Capri instead. It may not have the designer stores, millionaire’s residences, or crowded funicular railway, but who wants any of those when you can have a cool old car?

It’s the same car I portrayed back on 28 May, and these were taken at the same time with my Canon Sure Shot on a roll of Kodak Colorplus. I much prefer these colour photographs.

If you really want to see some colour photos of the isle of Capri, I have some of those too. 🙂

Orange paint fading
But not dulling the appeal
Of classic beauty

Canon Sure Shot Supreme & Kodak Colorplus.

Taken on 9 May 2021

Film photography · Medium Format · Photography

Finding a Ford Capri

May 28, 2021June 1, 2021 fishyfisharcade1 Comment

Finding old cars here in the UK isn’t easy, at least outside of car shows and museums. The MOT system means that most vehicles get sent for scrap before they gain too much age; the cost of keeping them road-worthy a barrier to long-term posession. Add to this the large-scale scrappage schemes that were brought into place when the use of leaded petrol was outlawed a few decades ago and the number of older-model vehicles is low. So, when I come across something like this Ford Capri parked on a street-corner, a photograph or two is almost obligatory.

The Capri was introduced as a Eurpopean equivalent of the Mustang apparently and it, along with the mark III Ford Cortina, always give me a sense of their being our versions of the American fastbacks and muscle cars.

Sometimes you can find
Old treasures left to be seen
On our street corners

Zeiss Mess-Ikonta 524/16 & Ilford HP5+. Ilfotec DD-X 1+4 9mins @ 20°.

Taken on 9 May 2021