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£17,609
1973 Ford Capri 2600
Silverstone Auctions • United Kingdom • 25 Feb 2017
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AI Listing Summary
This is a rare 1973 Ford Capri RS 2600 race car, a homologation special for the European Touring Car Championship. It's a barn find in need of full restoration, with a non-running engine, but boasts racing modifications like BBS wheels, a ZF 5-speed gearbox, and an Atlas rear axle. It has a racing history, believed to have been raced by Norris Miles in Australia and New Zealand.
Condition
2
The car is described as a "barn-find" in need of a full restoration, and the engine is not currently running and requires a total recommission. There is also a lack of history file.
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Transmission:
Manual
Chassis No:
GCECMY 41439
Odometer:
3,537 miles
Reg Number:
VBY 597L
RHD/LHD:
RHD
A "barn-find" Mk I Ford Capri RS 2600 race car The legendary RS 2600 Ford Capri was an "homologation special" built to make the Capri competitive in the European Touring Car Championship of the early 1970s.
It featured modified suspension, a close ratio gearbox, lightened body panels, vented disc brakes and alloy wheels and was built in very limited numbers.
Performance figures for the RS2600 were very impressive in period with 2,637cc producing 150bhp at 5,800rpm, sufficient to propel the range-topping Capri from 0-62mph in 8.6secs and on to a top speed of 124mph.
There is not a lot of history with this particular Lot, however, it is believed to be a Ford Capri RS 2600 from 1973 that was originally shipped to Australia when new.
We understand that at some point the car was raced by genial Kiwi, Norris Miles.
Norris is best known to us here for his determined efforts mixing his 'Class B' Alfa GTV with the ' Class A Capris' to great effect and managing to win the 1983 Uniroyal Prod...
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