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Open Thoughts for FoMoCo
Sep. 6th, 2005 12:21 amHey.
While driving around today, I was thinking back to a car that I still miss: my father's 1972 Mercury Capri. I loved it back when he had it and I realize now that even that wasn't enough...I should have drawn pictures of it or had photos taken of it or built a model of it or something. It had deep green paint job. I forget what color the interior was. It was the last year that the car had the smaller taillamps (the ones for the 1973 model year and later were bigger, and frankly, ugly) and one of the last years the car had chrome bumpers...by '74 the Mark II appeared and had the same plasticky bumpers as seen on the Mustang II. I liked the Mustang II as well...although after-the-fact opinion has been saying that the Mustang IIs were prone to be lemons and not worthy of the Mustang name.
Anyway, that Capri was fairly cozy and pretty well built, especially compared to the multitude of cars we had in those times.
It had the misfortune of being wrecked by a snowplow, as Dad was driving himself and Mom home from church choir practice in January 1979. It had lasted four years in our hands...which was commendable compared to some of the lemons we wound up owning.
If you never saw one before, it looked like a European version of a Mustang at first glance...some would say that it was inspired by the Mustang--and inspired the Mustang II. It had the same scalloped flanks and fastback roofline. It had a simpler front end, more akin to the styling of the Mach 1s of the early '70s. As a ponycar, it was low-key compared to the others on the street--but I liked it that way.
Ford Motor Company, if you're reading...I love the new Mustang. It's terrific. But I want a new Mercury Capri. Base it on the Mustang, but put Jaguar on the project. Make a limited edition version with a Cosworth engine. Then we'll talk. Mustang is the Yin--I want the Yang! :)
FP
While driving around today, I was thinking back to a car that I still miss: my father's 1972 Mercury Capri. I loved it back when he had it and I realize now that even that wasn't enough...I should have drawn pictures of it or had photos taken of it or built a model of it or something. It had deep green paint job. I forget what color the interior was. It was the last year that the car had the smaller taillamps (the ones for the 1973 model year and later were bigger, and frankly, ugly) and one of the last years the car had chrome bumpers...by '74 the Mark II appeared and had the same plasticky bumpers as seen on the Mustang II. I liked the Mustang II as well...although after-the-fact opinion has been saying that the Mustang IIs were prone to be lemons and not worthy of the Mustang name.
Anyway, that Capri was fairly cozy and pretty well built, especially compared to the multitude of cars we had in those times.
It had the misfortune of being wrecked by a snowplow, as Dad was driving himself and Mom home from church choir practice in January 1979. It had lasted four years in our hands...which was commendable compared to some of the lemons we wound up owning.
If you never saw one before, it looked like a European version of a Mustang at first glance...some would say that it was inspired by the Mustang--and inspired the Mustang II. It had the same scalloped flanks and fastback roofline. It had a simpler front end, more akin to the styling of the Mach 1s of the early '70s. As a ponycar, it was low-key compared to the others on the street--but I liked it that way.
Ford Motor Company, if you're reading...I love the new Mustang. It's terrific. But I want a new Mercury Capri. Base it on the Mustang, but put Jaguar on the project. Make a limited edition version with a Cosworth engine. Then we'll talk. Mustang is the Yin--I want the Yang! :)
FP
