{"id":37921,"date":"2014-10-09T14:15:12","date_gmt":"2014-10-09T13:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.influx.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=37921"},"modified":"2022-06-22T12:33:41","modified_gmt":"2022-06-22T11:33:41","slug":"ford-consul-capri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/cars\/ford-consul-capri\/","title":{"rendered":"Ford Consul Capri"},"content":{"rendered":"

It might have looked like a spaceship\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

– particularly when compared to Ford UK\u2019s standard issue cars of the time like the Anglia – but this first edition of a Ford car to carry the Capri moniker was as down-to-earth as any Dagenham dustbin.<\/p>\n

The Consul Capri was even designed at Dagenham – by Ford artist Colin Neale. And though its drivetrain was constructed at the Essex plant – the rest of its pressed steel curves were wrought at Hailwood.<\/p>\n

And what lovely curves they were.<\/p>\n

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This is the project that was supposed to bridge the Sputnik – obsessed late fifties and push the company\u2019s aesthetic into the decade that swung. As it turned out the rather out-there lines and costs of production meant that when the MK 1 Capri proper emerged at the end of the sixties – it looked much more conventional – having taken its cues from the Mustang rather than various episodes of the Jetsons.<\/p>\n

The Consul Capri was, then a bit of a design cul-de-sac – but it certainly set the aspirational tone for the upper end of the Ford UK market.<\/p>\n

Rare as hen\u2019s teeth these days – and something over which to ponder.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\t\t