Ford's carbureted 5.0L Mustang and Mercury Capris were plenty fast given similar mods. We've so far proven this with our project ercury Capri, and this month we continue to chop at the elapsed ...

Tipping into the throttle blade of my memory bank, I can recall my first ride in a 5-liter Mustang. It was a red '85 five-speed GT that my friend Brian Riccio bought new. We immediately jacked the ...

With the Mercury brand set to be confined to the dustbin ... the soon-to-be-defunct brand offered three distinctly different versions of the Capri. The original was a compact rear-wheel-drive ...

Those are the figures of the 1983 Mercury Capri RS, the rebadged, 5.0-liter V8-powered version of the old Fox body Mustang. Because Mercury's previous muscle car, the Cougar, turned into the ...

which was built in Mexico City with a mix of American-market Mercury Capri parts, including the nose, hood and taillights. It drew plenty of quizzical looks and questions. “It was great to see ...

During the first half of the 1980s, the American Sunroof Company (ASC) teamed up with McLaren's American division based in Livonia, Michigan, to transform the Mercury Capri into something truly ...

In the 1980s, if you wanted a Mustang with a bit more luxury, you went and bought a Mercury Capri. If you wanted more performance and/or the roof chopped off your Capri, you went to ASC/McLaren.

The U.S. company essentially took standard American vehicles, like the Mercury Capri and Ford Mustang and converted them into distinctive coupe and convertible models. Read Also: Ford Killed ...

In the early 1980s, the Mercury Capri was a rear-drive sports car—basically, a rebadged Mustang hatchback. And how could we forget that the 1983 Capri RS got a whopping 175 horsepower out of a 5 ...

When John Puckett bought his 1983 Mercury Capri from the cornfields of West Des Moines, Iowa, he didn't need much more than a little street machine. Fresh out of high school, and now armed with a ...

The second-generation Capri was born in 1979, becoming a part of the Mercury lineup and using the Fox platform that Ford also used for the Mustang. The second-gen Capri was available throughout ...