1973 Mk1 Capri V8

re assembly.

Thanks Johnny.

Haha... Thanks.

Thanks man.

Thanks Grumpy.

Yeah, I like the exposed rivet look.

And it serves a purpose, because bonding them on and smoothing the seams would add weight.

Lots of racers in the period had that, but the Cologne Capri's didn't.

( specially the German Capri owners seem happy to point that out when they see a pic of my car, along with their disgust of the bodywork being " unfinished"...

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I did pay a lot of attention to get the spacing of the rivets even and lines straight...

Which I then covered with vinyl.

A buddy lent me his industrial sewing machine ( this job really needs a walking foot sewing machine, which this one isn't, but I worked around that )

And I put in a pattern I liked, put the panels together and started to put those in.

Panels like on the doors, etc, are usually done on some sort of fiber board.

But I don't like that.

Its heavy, it often damages when you remove it, and it warps when it gets wet.

I happened to notice that interiors in light passenger airplanes use aluminum sheet as a backing, and I thought that was a much better sollution.

While cruising Ebay I saw a set of roof grabhandles for a '70s BMW, and I thought those would be perfect as door pulls.

Instead of mounting those through the panel, I mounted them directly to the doors.

And cut a slot in the panel to fit around them ( to make removal easier and quicker )

And I mounted the panels with screws from the outside, for the same reason.

The engine is just a used 4 bolt main Small Block Chevy.

With a mystery Crower cam, my intake, Webers, headers, a Vertex magneto, and a better oilpan.

I may have put on a set of over the counter ( meaning they were sold through Chevy dealerships, but not put on production cars ) iron double hump heads at this point, but that may have been later.

Underside.