RARE GROOVE

This isn’t a show car, it’s a go car.” Dean Goodman is grinning like a Cheshire cat as he illustrates the true purpose of his muscular Mk1 Capri, and the implication is clear: given that it’s sporting a show-winning finish throughout, we can only imagine what manner of ‘go’ it has.

We don’t have to imagine for long. Planting his right foot firmly on the loud pedal, 400 rampaging horses overwhelm the modern Toyo rubber to unleash a fully old-school frenzy of billowing tyre-smoke and atomised hydrocarbons. This is a Capri built solely for hedonistic thrills, with a V8 heart and a mischievous soul. And, almost uniquely among the pantheon of V8 Capris, this one’s been laid out this way from