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- Is it a Ford Mustang or is it a Mercury Capri? It’s BOTH. Watch as Steve unravels the mystery of the Gen 2 Mercury Capri and why this particular example has the extra-large rear axle. Is it a Turbo? Is it a V8? So many questions…Steve has the answers. Tune in and see!
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For those commenting on Steve uploaded previously aired videos ... Steve recently posted he was Hospitalized. I hope your doing well Steve and thank you for posting your incredible videos. Hope to see new content soon but thank you for re-posting your greatest hits (which is every video you've made) to keep the daily feed going.
Best wishes Steve M..sheesh
Yes, best wishes & get well soon, Steve!
Get Better Steve Katie is waiting for you. 👍
Where did you see that? Kinda would have been nice to see it posted here!
Thanks for the info. Best wishes Steve get well.
Great info, as usual. If the dog would just sign the release form she would get her face on camera.
LoL I was thinking the same thing. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Lol😂
@@jayjaybrown1123 LOL I paused and came to the comments to see if anyone else caught that....
Watching Steve's old videos is the best way to support him right now. Feed the algorithm!
Hate to hear Steve is not feeling well. Sending Prayers for a full recovery.
You never cease to amaze me Steve, you are literally a walking automotive Wikipedia! I’m sure you prepare and educate yourself prior to every video, but your automotive knowledge is awe inspiring.
Nice to see Katie in this rehash. Where steve hasn't been around katie is free to run and bark. Love you katie !
Belly rubs for Queen Katie.
I have a 1966 Comet Capri with a 390 engine. Lincoln had a Capri model in the 1950's also.
Best wishes Steve, get well soon bro.
When you hit a certain age range, it's time to get serious about your health.
Trust me, I speak from experience...
Steve knows his stuff. More good info. Especially the rear diff info.
I got my drivers license in a 2.3 4 speed 1979 Capri. Hadn’t driven a standard before, and pops had me take it for the drivers test. “ If you want your license, you will pass “ I did, and remember it all the time.
Miss you Steve, patiently waiting for you to get better.
I've always liked how the capri has a wide body look ro it over the regular fox mistang
What happened to Steve? I hope you're alright!
Echo and the Bunnymen!!! I love this guy! Please get well Steve!!!
We're all pulling for you Steve. Hope to see you soon
Hope you are doing well Steve. God Bless
1982 or 1983 as a kid my m&d took me to Detroit for a tour of the assembly line. These little Capri were rolling off like mad that day. Blast watching drivers peel out in front of the viewing area….
Get well Steve. I’m always blown away by the volume of info you provide about vehicles.
Steve wishing you Gods speed on getting back to the Junkyard for more crawling around, myself and all your fans will be waiting patiently to hear from you soon !!!
❤👍
Having my morning coffee and cigar, worrying about Steve.
Having my coffee and Life cereal! Wifey would kick me out if I lit up a cigar.
@@michaelnazaruk4100 Lol, my wife would have too, rest her soul. I puff my cigar, have my coffee and breakfast out on my second story screen porch. After that, it's out back, bass fishing in the pond. Hey, guy's gotta have hobbies in retirement. 😎
Thanks !! I LOVE THIS STUFF !!! You see junk yard cars the same way I do as though they are brand new fresh off the lot. To me, this is better than a trip to a museum. I'm disabled and can't physically go do this myself so these videos are the next best thing !!
your fans are rooting for you Steve. come on man you can do this
Get well soon, Steve 🍀👍🏻
I'm watching all again tell u getting better 🙏💯👍
My buddy in Hi Skool 1982 had a '79 brown/tan Ttop Capri 5.0 5sp & I admit it was quick on take off {wouldnt outrun my '78 Z28} & to me it looked better than the slowstangs! I loved the 1st Gen Capris as they were German cars & my uncle had one in the early '70s when I was growing up in Bavaria ✌💖☮
In 1980 - 83 I worked at a ford dealership in the used car department. I remember these cars. Often we would have to deliver and pick up vehicles we would trade for with the Lincoln Mercury dealership 20 miles away. I drove a lot of awesome cars over the years. Kinda crazy seeing them in the bone yard like that.
Get well soon Steve
In high school my neighbors wife had a 5.0 RS. Really nice ride. Sounded good too. ❤
If there is a University level course in Automobile History, Steve should definitely become a professor. His wealth of knowledge is so inspiring.
One Mercury I’m not crazy for, Steve, thanks for the info.
Now you get better soon!
had an '80 turbo Capri. Loved it... Fast as heck.
My sister had one of the first generation Capri back in the 1970s. She went from that to a Lebaron convertible. Then now she is driving a Crossfire convertible.
We are praying for a full recovery Steve. 🙏
I laughed so hard when I saw the dogs face pixeled out.. 😂
Mercury Capri also came with a 3.3 straight six!
My older by a year and half step-brother had a 80 Mercury Capri, his had 3.8 V6 in it, which in all honesty was plenty enough for that car, people who say "Oh it wasn't a muscle car, it had a V6 in it" seem to forget that the 3.8 V6 had 12 less Hp in 80 than the 302 did and it was almost 150 lbs lighter. The kerb weight of a 80 V8 Capri was 2698 lbs, the V6 version was 2517 lbs. Dan's was originally black with red interior but one of the first things we did to it was take it apart and painted it a medium Pewter with triple Yellow, Orange and red pinstripes, and then he put some Enkie wheels on it, That was NICE looking car when it was done. I wish I could find one I would build it the same way.
The 3.8 wasn't available till 1982.
@@lsdean77 Not true at all. It was available be ordered in 1980, which is what alot of people were doing in 80 and 81, that's why they made it the standard V6 from 82 on.
@@TheREALOC1972 buddy your 9n glue...... Ford didn't start producing the 3.8 till 1981 for 1982 production cars.
@@lsdean77 No your the one sniffing glue. The mid 70's Ford Capri's they sold in Europe had a 3.8, I had a 74 Ford Capri when I was stationed in Germany in the Early 90's that had a 3.8L V6 in it, which is the SAME engine they put in the 82 and up Capri's here in the U.S., They started producing them here in 1978 for the Ford Granada/Mercury Monarch.
@@TheREALOC1972 buddy you don't know what you're talking about the British never made a 3.8 Essex v6.... they made a 2.5 3.0, 3.1 and 3.4 pull you head out of your German buddies backside. In North America we got the 3.8 3.9 and 4.2 Essex v6. I'm a Ford history expert..... need anything set straight?
Mustangs were popular there,lots of units sold thumbs up
Steve feel better brother these will do 👍
snow in August nice. capri is nice. sorry about motortrend debacle.
Mercury Mustangs n Angels of the sea. Great video on my day off..im gonna watch Steves videos all day today!! Thanks Steve!!
Some young guy I work with has a blown and tubbed Capri. I couldn't tell you anything about it, other than it sounds pretty rad. I'd drive it.
Get well soon Steve!
So glad you’re on the mend.
I had a really cool 1976 Mercury Capri with ground effects and a Louver kit on the rear window and had a really cool Hood 2 with a 2.8 and a 4-speed manual
Steve, On October 17th 1978 In Lima, Ohio, I took delivery of one of the 1st produced... blindly ordered a few months earlier, sight unseen Fox Body 1979 dark metallic green Capri Trubo RX with the first 2.3 L turbo lima engine... also, Michelin tires 390 mm TRX factory wheels.... !! It had 14 pages of complaints and factory defects; needed repair in a 1,000-mile check-up under dealership warranty... !! Potentially was the 79th Ford foxbody ever built on the assembly line... !! Ironically, we had relocation to lima in August 1963; as my father bought the house from ;at the time; Ford Lima Engine Plant Manager CEO... His family built a new house on down, in The Country Club Golf Course... Ford MEL V8's were made there starting in 1958... !!
How long did it take the engine to start knocking?
@mexicanspec, I researched at the time, via magazines, and discovered Europeans infatuation with Mobil 1 synthetic motor oil... I used Mobil 1 synthetic from the start and learned from the next door neighbor, who worked on Ford Engine Plant line; that my Capri 2.3 turbo engine was the only one they knew of that hadn't blown up. ... Ford "Lima" literally had to shut the 2.3 turbo line down for months... !!
Maybe you got the only good one that came off the line. Like many other projects, Ford Focus, they rushed the engine to market. The first dealer I ever worked for had a gorgeous black 1979 Mustang 2.3L turbo. It had like 20,000 miles on it and knocked like the whole neighborhood wanted to come in. They didn't get better with age. @@jeffreybond6491
Love the channel. Get well buddy
It’s snowing in New England in August?! Cool! 😂😂😂
Those where great looking cars! I hope you’re doing better Steve.🙏
MotorTrend can SMD.
Miss ya Steve. Hoping you're okay.
Oh. Funny you mentioned Uncle Samuel. Uncle Samuel can also SMD. Till his lips fall off.
All that MotorTrend talks about anymore are gay electric bs snowflake mobiles.
Still It is, a very exciting model!
I have a 74 capri mk1 . I love it
I had 72 and 73. 73 had the 2.6 V6 and was pretty peppy. Miss those cars. The name died for me when it came out as the Fox body - just really not a Capri anymore. Hang in to yours because they are hard to find as you probably know. Here in the US anyway.
I never knew about that Turbo - it looked pretty cool.
The bad thing about the turbo option was that you could not get it with air conditioning.
Ford buying ghia would be the reason an old neighbor of mine had a mustang II ghia. That was a tight engine compartment with the v8 in that thing
My stepfather was hit by a freight train on Aug 15th, 1985 in a Turbo Capri RS white and orange. I was 7 years old. Someday, I will own another fast foxbody, since these hold a slight spot in my heart. ❤ I've only had one fox body in my lifetime. Always loved and had much respect for the Mercury Capri foxbody.
0:14 and 0:44 BLUR that dog's face! Best wishes for Steve's full recovery.
Speedy recovery my friend 😊
Drew one of these as a rental car. Loved it.
Get well soon we miss you.
Hope Steve feels better, a friend of mine has one of these with a v-8 and then I bought a 5.0 GT mustang awesome cars in there time
Thank you Steve
We had a 92 Mercury Capri. It didn’t look anything at all like that. Used to annoy me because everyone automatically thought of this body style instead.
Thanks Steve!
Get well soon steve. Glad this was reposted. I love the Capri Fox Bodies.
Another repeat, so here's what I said the last time:
No, that's not correct. The 4.2L V8 (255 CID) VIN code "D" engine with two barrel was available from 1980-1982 in Ford Motor Company products, including in the 1982 Capri. Along with other Ford products at the time, it had the "Motorcrap" carburetor which was an awful carburetor leaving many an owner (and mechanic) frustrated with it.
This is a 1980 Capri with the VIN for the win: 0 for 1980 model year, F for Dearborn, MI assembly, 16 for Capri Ghia three door hatchback, D for 4.2L (255 CID) V8 with two barrel and the rest is the production sequence. The Dearborn, MI plant was the "home" Mustang (and Capri from 1979-1986) plant until 2004 when vehicle production was moved to Flat Rock, MI. Other plants that assembled them (depending on the year) were Metuchen Assembly (also called Edison Assembly which closed in 2004) and San Jose Assembly (also called Milpitas Assembly, which closed in 1983). Exterior paint is code 1C Black.
There were some ASC convertible Capris from 1984 to 1986. About 557 of them were made. That album is "white noise" of sea sounds and other soothing tones/sounds, pretty much what folks use to go to sleep. LOL.
No, that's not a seat belt warning label. It's the "Make sure you have it in park and use the parking brake" fiasco sticker from the 1960s through the early 1980s that the US government made Ford send out to owners of various year FOMOCO products. The detent in the shifter positions between Park and Reverse would "round off" and give a false impression of being in Park when it was really not.
Sweeney Ford is now Ford of Greenfield and is located at 1 Main Street in Greenfield, MA.
That sticker fiasco went back into the mid-1960s.
MotorCrap, lol...
@@jonathanmorrisey5771It sure did. My uncle had a 1979 LTD that had that decal added.
@@deanstevenson6527 Yup, sure was. A friend of mine coined that term one day at the shop we hung around. He said, "Ford, always broken....Motorcrap." LOL.
The 4.2 was replaced for 1983 model year with the 5.0
I loved junkyard gold!
I like the motorcraft sponsored capris racing around the tracks in the US. Also the special ASC McLaren capris
For anyone who feels they have exhausted all possible hot rod projects, would you consider building a 255? Cam, lifters, heads, headers, 4V, etc and seeing how much power could be extracted. At least build it the way someone might have tried back in the early 80s if Dearborn had failed to launch the 82 GT and the 255 all but forgotten except for Steve’s “museum tours,”. Anyway, a side curiosity is why the 255 is long gone?
Because they were horribly underpowered, and the people demanded the 302.
For 1982 as well as it's mandatory 80 and 81 Model Years, the 4.2 litre was a delete option on Mustang GLX's, GTs and Capri GS's and RS's if you ordered a 5 liter V8, but didn't want the mandatory 4 speed over drive gearbox, then, your 157 hp V8 lost 28 HP and became a 119 HP 4.2. A 1.5 mpg 55 mph fuel mileage figure to 23.5 mpg, was the result compared to the 1979 2bbl 5.0. This is the way it was done when the EPA were breathing down your neck. Incidentally, the April 1980 Engines got an intake revision/ change from it's June 1979 4.2 liter '1980' model year engine, which allowed you to use the stock 4bbl 5.0 intake factory and aftermarket option intake if you made a modification to the intake port matching. With a Holley 600 CFM 4bbl, AOD kickdown cable, Headers, 351 G code Marine cam and the G code P71 Crown Victoria four catalyst exhaust, Csere Casba found 16 second 1/4 miles and 131 Mph top speeds instead of 18 seconds and 108 mph the C5 auto did. The 4.2 is probably the most responsive engine to carb🪜cam, intake manifold Exhaust and Automatic Gearing and axle changes ever...this article shows how to get that missing 28 HP back...
@@deanstevenson6527 interesting! Thanks.
@@johnhutchison9782 That's one of the reasons i replaced my 4.2 with a 5.8 Cleveland that came around from a wrecked Mustang!
The 255 is only a placeholder for a 302, it has no other useful function. Just like the Chevy 262, Pontiac 265 and Olds 260, the Ford 255 was a late '70's fuel economy engine, it has no real performance potential other than to be replaced.
I hope steve is feeling better and doing well.
i must think by the re-uploads somehing happened to steve hope hes ok and if nit get well soon buddy we need your automotive knowledge
Who’s your tailor? I need to replace my Township Dinner Jacket that has the same pattern as yours. Can’t go fine dining without it! 👌. Keep up all the good entertaining videos full of all that car history too Steve. Just amazed by your huge historical collection of the magazines, brochures and your ability to connect it to all your videos.
My first car was a 1979 Mustang Ghia, V8. Loved that car.
It’s 105 F° here and Massachusetts has snow and is five months behind.
Get well Steve!
Junkyard Gold was one of my favorite shows.
Ford Fairmont & Mercury Zefer were on fox platform also.
Buddy in mine in high school had one of these.
Love some capri. Had a rootbeer brown 82' when I was younger.
still have my capri v8 ghia, also had the 79 mustang ghia.
Get well soon Steve!!🙏
OMG LMAO at the dogs identity being pixelated
Love these videos
My neighbor had that first gen.. it was the only one I have ever seen ...it was different ...in a good way....I miss GYG... I watched every episode .....l don't watch muck on MT now... just the auctions and MCC...
It's interesting that Mercury got out of the pony car market just in time to miss out on having an equivalent to the 1987 Mustang 5.0 which was the fastest 5.0 of all at 225 hp and 300 lb ft of torque. That was the Mustang every kid wanted, and in many ways it was the king of street performance for quite a while. 1987 was also a year of restyling for the Mustang. Imagine what Mercury could have done with the Capri. They might have turned it into their "Pontiac Firebird", a cool car with its own appeal.
good points. I remember when Capri began as a German car and ended as a Mazda convertable.
Hoping that Steve recovers soon. We miss him.
Imagine being in old dude and recognizing this car in the video and yelling : "it wasn't Duran Duran it was REO Speedwagon!" [cough groan]
My dad got one in the mid 80s V8 5spd factory 4brl Holley and tubular headers. Fast little car.
Hi Steve, good video! The black and silver warning decal you cee on the center console was mailed out to all Ford owners equipped with automatic transmission cars in regards to the complaint of the transmissions slipping out of park. The list price of the Mercury Capri may have been higher than the Mustang, but the selling price was not, due to fewer Capri sales. Please reply. Dave...
When I was coming up you could buy clean shells like this for $500-$1000 put your drivetrain in it & be rolling the next day. Plus if it was 4 cyl at most costed $250 a year to insure it !
I loved the first Capri's from the early 70's.
Cool, i have a 80 Capri RS with a 5.8 Cleveland.
Mercury Capri RS 4.2L V-8 automatic (aut. 3) in 1980, the model with 3-door hatchback coupe body and V-8 4183 cm3 / 255.3 cui, 88 kW / 120 PS / 118 hp (SAE net) engine offered since October 1979 for North America U.S.. According to ProfessCars™ estimation this Mercury is capable of accelerating from 0 to 60 mph in 12.2 sec, from 0 to 100 km/h in 13 sec, from 0 to 160 km/h (100 mph) in 51 sec and the quarter mile drag time is 18.9 sec. My 2015 Toyota Corolla takes 8.5 seconds to reach 60 mph from a standstill and achieves the quarter-mile in 16.85 seconds.
Totally different cars and feel!
I will blow your Toyota away with my 80 Capri RS with a 5.8 Cleveland!
The idealised Quarter mile times in that simulation are wrong, just in this case. With all due respect to the publishers, who I respect and quote all the time . Actual 4.2 litre Automatic figures were 18.0 second quarter mile, 108 mph top speed, 23.5 MPG at highway, and that was 1.5 seconds faster over the quarter mile than the 3.3 auto, and 13 mph faster than the top speed of a 1981 Mustang 3.3 I owned one. Which I got on numerous occasions. I seriously don't know why people rag on the 4.2 liter when the 85 to 91 HP 3 speed auto and Four speed manual cars couldn't do 30 mpg Highway or top the ton (100 mph) or break 19 second Standing quarter miles. With just the five modifications
See Restoring the American Dream:130 mph for the Masses
by Csaba Csere,
the 4.2 is faster than the 1982 5.0, and almost as quick over the quarter mile with an automatic.
@@deanstevenson6527 Right and i take a Capri/Mustang V8 any day over a 2015 Toyota Corolla!
@@MauiWauiPineappleExpress I've had a significant time behind the wheel of both. Fox body for the win, and S code 1982 Bronco 400 6.6, a crank sensored big stroker Cleveland which meets California emissions as a passenger car engine (because it's not a truck ) with approved EO intake. Just such a sad time that Ford left it's best emissions legal engines out of the loop because they didn't want to add the Automatic Overdrive, and Henry Ford II had told the EPA, the Canted Valve Small block 351C, 351M and 400's were leaving the building in 1982. Which they did, in both the USA and Australia. But it was still around till 1989 as a grey import Australian stockpile 351C 4bbl 216 HP engine in DeTomaso's. With 8.9 compression and ThermoQuad, it's a 14.69 second Standing 1/4 mile engine in the Fox Mustang with the Single Rail Borg Warner, and it just runs on pump ULP 91. With the approved intake Cleveland and EGR, the engine weighed 569 pounds, just 100 more than the 5.0, making as stock 82 5.0 Capri or Mustang, a 2851 lb street pounder. With Roush and Yates 1983 aluminium heads, it weighs the same as the 82 5.0, and a car like gets a huge boost in HP with a factory 1972 hydraulic cam. Ford could have met EPA mpg and Emissions from just factory homologation Cleveland parts..that it didn't even try, well, that's Ford's business..
Here in México we actually got the foxbody mustang and it was a rebadged capri with a mustang front end
They are called bubble back mustang
It wasn't rebadged, it was a mix of all the available parts. The coupe had the Capri grille and hood with the thin Mustang fenders and the hatchback bubble back had the Mustang front end with the wider fenders. i have seen factory cars that also had the Capri front end on the bubble back and the Mustang front end on the coupe. You never know what you are going to get.
5:40 "Angels of the Sea" sucked so bad that they chose to tape over it, rather than use a blank cassette tape. 🤣😅😂😛😁
My moms brother had a Capri powered by the 200 straight 6
I test drove an 82 Capri new before ordering a Mustang LX in 82. I has TRX option but came to be unimpressed with the lack of traction in the wet.
The Mustang was advertised as a "Muscle car", The Capri was a "Luxury Pony Car". Even the Capri's with the 302's were detuned for better gas mileage and reliability with the 7 1/2 rear end compared to the Mustang with the 8.8" rear end.
The Mexican Mustang or Capri. Due to being made in Mexico. Only in Mexico they had trunk body Capri. I had an 84 RS 5.0 Holly carb. with bubble hatch. Knew who to ask you could get that Capri only hood scope. I had the McLaren 160 speedo. And lucked out and found the full wrap rear louvers.
Mr. B. Here ! ☕️☕️👀👀🍩🍩 Morning Mags ! Am not ready for snow ⛄️! It can wait ! Have a good day guys .
Morning
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Cracks me up that they blur the dogs face 😂. Must be an escapee from the pound
A coworker had one of these with a V8. It was nicely equipped but had no AC, which I thought was odd. I don't think he knew about the odd tire size though.
Take care Steve!
first gen Capri.. reborn as a Celica.. lol...
fox Capri raced by Roush back in the day was an impressive TransAm racecar
Dogs face blurred out lol nice touch Steve 😂