Highlights
- Verified as a genuine 3.0 S with certificate
- Only six registered keepers from new
- Factory correct in Solar Gold with fabulous checked interior
- 63,366 miles from new believed correct by seller
- Retains many original features including uncut dashboard and original seats
- Subject to a recent recommissioning including new clutch
- Voluntary MOT test July 2025 with no structural advisories
The Appeal
If you’re seeing bubble perms, bonnet rolls, tail slides and cardboard boxes, lots and lots of cardboard boxes, flying everywhere, we’re with you 100%. There are so many good reasons why Ray Doyle chose a 3L S in Solar Gold, exactly like this 1979 car, in which to slalom around the East End of London: it’s quick, it looks fantastic, and it’s fun with a capital F.
Here is a chance to channel your inner Professional with one of the last remaining Solart Gold 3.0 S Mk3s on the road. It’s a great example and, in its highly original details, a timely reminder why these rumbly V6 cars were absolutely, unequivocally ‘the car you always promised yourself.’ Details like the 8-spoke alloys, checkered interior, and S-stripes on this low-keeper, low-mileage car set it apart from the later, much more numerous fuel-injected cars.
Inside and out, it is in good order. As might be expected of a car of this age, there are a few points to note in the photos. The key check area, the structure, got a clean pass on the last voluntary MOT in July 2025. It comes to market recently recommissioned, including a new clutch, and is said to run and drive well.
This Capri presents an increasingly rare opportunity to acquire a genuine, verified example of one of Ford's and TV’s most celebrated cars.
Key Information
- Mileage: 63,336 miles indicated (believed to be correct by the vendor)
- Country of registration: United Kingdom
- MOT status: last voluntary test ran to July 2026 with advisory; qualifies as historic and is therefore MOT exempt
- Technical specs: 2,994cc Essex V6 petrol, four-speed manual
- Paperwork: Original Ford service book, owners handbook and supplement; genuine 3.0 S verification certificate; HPI clear certificate
The Detail
- Well kept Solar Gold with S-stripes with a few minor points to note in photos
- Fitted with 8-hole Ghia alloys in good order with tyres showing decent tread
- Standard Ford alloy wheels, correct for the 1979 model year (not RS alloys)
- Matching spare wheel
- No structural advisories on last voluntary MOT in July 2025
- Exterior trim good general order appearing to be largely original
- Retains original uncut dashboard
- Fitted with original early Ford FM radio
- Standard original roll top comfort sport seats in black and white check cloth
- Cloth seats show some wear due to originality
- No sunroof, as per original specification
- Original parcel shelf showing some age as is typical of this model
- Verified as a genuine 3L V6 S with 4spd manual gearbox we are told
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