...To paraphrase the original Ford Capri ad slogan. Love 'em or hate 'em, the Capri is one of those cars that everyone has an opinion about, be it as an Essex-boy's bird-magnet, or as a practical and handsome coupe.
Wherever you stand on the Capri debate, the most collectable of the species is considered by many to be the Tickford Turbo, which came about right at the end of the car's production. They were the brainchild of a Lotus test-driver and built by 'Aston Martin Tickford' (who'd also nailed-together the Ford RS200) in Coventry. And the bodykit was designed by the same bloke who went on to design the Ariel Atom. No, seriously...
The original plan was to build 250 (later revised to just 100), but in the end a mere 85 made it into existence. In fact, to be precise 100 were planned, 85 were converted, 15 were sold without having been converted but with Tickford chassis numbers, and a further two were built on a one-off (
) basis a year after production ended - one of them for boxing promoter Barry Hearn. You getting all of this...?
In the end the car was a commercial flop - probably because the contemporary Sierra RS Cosworth was considerably faster and cheaper (in 1988 the one you see here would have retailed at an eye-watering £17,220). But of course such low production-volume makes them highly sought-after today.
Tickford Capri from our classifieds
is the very last built (of the original batch) and is a one-owner car from a private collection with a full and detailed history. The vendor owns no fewer than five Tickford Capris and has indicated that he'd need something in the region of £20,000 to part with it.
That's....erm....that's quite a lot, and one did sell on here recently for quite a bit less - although it was an earlier four-owner example and didn't have the full leather interior conversion.
Mind you, given the market for old fast Fords, and the fact that this is number 100 of the originally planned hundred cars, perhaps it's not too far out?
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