Awad sold his land and Henry Ford II sold his Capri
good news!
We have found your next car.
But before we tell you what it is, let us paint a picture of the mystery that led to the auction of
a Henry Ford Capri .
It is a story between you and me in which you will be a party, reader, actor and accuser.
Do you accept the terms of the Ford owner history sale story, and you sell your Ford Capri, whatever the price? Let’s tell the story together.
Or so I tell it to Henry Ford II himself.
It is a story very similar to the story of Awad who sold his land, the son of the owner of the largest car company,
Ford International , and Awad is his son Henry Ford II, and the land here is
of the Capri type.
For Ford Motors. So let’s tell the story together, it’ll be you Henry Ford, and I’m the detective, I’m going to attack you, so don’t be mad at me.
Henry Ford II, owner of Capri auctionedImagine that you are Henry Ford II, one of the most powerful automotive executives in the world.
You are approaching 65 and have just married a young woman who is a quarter century your age.
You know, the one she calls “Giggles” (or at least she did until she insisted on turning into Kate);
The one you chased around Detroit while your wife Christina was flying around the world;
The one who certainly wasn’t your wife when you were pulled into a DWI’s Ford Granada in California in ’75. (When the Detroit Free Press asked you for an explanation of that little incident, you said one of your most famous jokes: “Never complain, never explain”).
Henry Ford II sold at auctionThe obvious choice would be to charge over a Mustang.
After all, it’s 1981 Henry Ford II, and your company has given up its second loser Mustang for the Mustang Body Focus.
But the last time I shipped cars to Europe (a fleet of Lincoln Continental Mark IVs), Volvo tore them up to make the horrific 262C.
Besides, it’s the dawn of the ’80s, and the Euro is great.
the car from the insideNo, what you need is a car that tells the locals you’re still rocking your 60s: a Ford Capri.
Although first introduced in 1969 as a European answer to the Mustang, the Capri is still on a hot emotional journey in the UK – she even starred in the hit cop show, The Professionals.
Also, the Capri is a known quantity of cars, since your company sold it in the US as Mercury (although this is a new, third-generation model, which never made it to the US).
Attack on Henry Ford II
In the background his fatherThere is no ordinary Capri for you, Henry Ford II, though.
And after all, you’re “The Deuce” (or “Two Two,” as Kate likes to call you when she calls you).
Your Capri has a new 160-horsepower, fuel-injected, 2.8-liter V-6 V-6 engine.
cassetteAnd it’s Henry Ford’s second-closest eight-cylinder V-8 engine in the land of bad weather and poor food.
They are hand-picked from the assembly line at your company in Cologne, Germany, where they have received additional quality checks and a few extra touches of a two-tone paint process.
It was delivered to the UK, and then personally transferred by Ford of Europe to the Ford of Special Vehicle Engineering (SVE) team at the Dunton Technical Center in Essex.
It will be auctioned for an estimated $50,000Once there, the SVE team fitted the car with a C-3 automatic gearbox.
(The automatic car was the dealer’s option, but the conversion was usually done by an outside company called Somar Transtec.) The car received new custom-made leather seats and door cards, and the driver’s seat was enlarged to accommodate… My God, how can we put this together without insulting you, Mr. Ford… Your senior executive status.
The car was then shipped to Turville Grange, the Ford family’s property in Buckinghamshire.
But you, Henry Ford II, are a man of ever-changing tastes, and a few months after your retirement in December 1982, you sold the car to Ron Mellor, Ford’s chief development officer.
The car has been swapped out multiple times, and of the 68,958 miles it has driven on the odometer, it is assumed that only 6,800 miles have been added over the past 28 years.
Now your Capri 2.8 Injection has been restored and is for sale at an online auction hosted by the Car & Classic Gallery.
For auctions, the auction house expects it to sell for between £25,000 and £35,000 – about $35,000 to $50,000 in US dollars.
A little pricey for a Capri with an automatic transmission (which, you remember, is a damage here but rare in the UK), but is it crazy money for a real piece of Ford family history?
In addition, if you are going to be drawn into a drunk driving with your mistress, it is better to find out your truth in this place than to be exposed in Granada.
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