Ford Capri Mk1 RS3100

A genuine rare barn find this Rs3100 has been laid up for 30 years and unfortunately time and damp have not been kind.

Despite the serious corrosion the Rs is 99.9% complete.

unfortunately the rs3100 has some serious corrosion and is need of a lot of panels

luckily the car came with a pair of genuine Rs wings and boot lid

Whilst the car was off being blasted we have been busy collecting up new old stock ford panels including quarters , doors, front valance, sill, inner sills and a rear panel, the remainder of required panels were sourced from ex-pressed steel or second hand panels

With the font end loosely fixed into place time to bring out the measuring system to make sure everything in millimetre perfect before welding everything into place

the usual floor reinforcers need replacing due to people mistaking them for jacking points

the only new old stock ford door we could source were pr-facelift doors which are almost the same except the interior door release handle is different so we had to salvage the original handle apertures and graft them in to the new doors

being new old stock doors unfortunately these ones did not come with the hinges so these had to be salvaged from the original doors along with some new pins

even the radiator supports have suffered corrosion probably due to the previously suspect repairs after a some front end damage

Again the only front valance available at the time was a pre-facelift panel , the difference being the tags to secure have vertical slots where as the face lift panel has horizontal slots , the pre-facelift panels also are missing the various slots and hole which secure the lights and bezels

templated from the original the correct slots can be added and some new tags fabricated to secure the grill