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Coming back to the idea spawned by my nostalgia for my Dad's Capri and this object:



Which is available from These People, whose website isn't helpful enough yet.

Leaving aside the internal workings of a car for a moment to concentrate on the styling...if I got the AR Bodies Mustang shell to play with and lay on a chassis, how could I make the result more Capri-esque for my taste? Poking around Wikipedia overnight gave me the answers:

1) Ford Flex headlamp and front turn signal units
2) Mercury Milan grille, or possibly Mercury Mariner grille if that works better
3) Mercury Milan tail lamps, and possibly an adaptation of trunklid geometry to incorporate
4) rear BUBBLE glass ala post-1978 Corvette, Seventies/Eighties/Nineties Camaro/Firebird, Mercury LN7...and of course the Eighties American Capri...to replace the rear windshield/quarter windows arrangement on the Mustang.

For street legality sake, the result would likely need off-the-shelf bumpers. Probably Milan or Marquis units...or even Mercury SUV ones. Depends on what fits.

Wish I had the tools to explore this thought to its fill extent.

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