In the 1970s, Bodie and Doyle were the stars of The Professionals, a TV favourite even for people who didn’t enjoy the pair power-sliding their V6 Capris from one gruesome London crime scene to the next. On the local race tracks we had our own power-sliding Capri-mounted professional, who single-handedly made the name of the German city that produced the car familiar to motor sport fans here.
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Paul Barrett Fahey’s Cologne Capri was the saloon car legend’s final racing car. After a career alternating from small and chuckable to big and grunty, he spent his final seasons giant-killing once more. A few years earlier it had been in a four-valve Escort, initially with a 1.6-litre FVA and then a 1.8 FVC engine, that led to some of the best David v.