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1969 Ford Capri GT MkI 
Class: Cars, Coupé — Model origin: 
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◊ 2019-07-23 22:55 |
I am fairly sure we had a Taiwan Capri a few months ago with some discussion about possible local build. But as there is no Capri now with a Made-for-RC tag, I can't retrieve it to check what was said ..... |
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◊ 2019-07-23 23:07 |
Should come up in a comment search for Taiwan, it's not exactly a place that comes up a lot in comments. |
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◊ 2019-07-24 14:20 |
No sign of it using "Taiwan". May have been discussed with different wording - eg "local build" or whatever. Hazy memory is that despite no mention in most sources there was probably some Capri build in low numbers, possibly using parts from Germany alongside the small quantity of 26M [P7b] assembly. But only a fuzzy recollection, not solid. |
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◊ 2019-07-24 14:49 |
I went through all the movies that contained Yue Loong cars (safe guess, as it was the most common car in Taiwan at that time), but I didn't see a Capri entry in any of those movies. Was it really in Taiwan? |
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◊ 2019-07-24 14:54 |
Perhaps it was this Capri in Okinawa. /vehicle.php?id=1261740 |
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◊ 2019-07-24 15:40 |
Not the Okinawa Capri. But I may have been thinking of this one in Thailand (well the countries have similar names and are both a long way away  ) but it doesn't have the other info I thought came with it.World Cars info on Taiwan Ford builds is wobbly - nothing listed in early 70s then in 1975 (I have gaps in the collection) Ford USA were building Cortina, Granada and Escort. Ford UK and D have separate lists in several countries but nothing Taiwan mentioned. Previous experience of these WC assembly listings suggests they can be 2-3 years old when printed (so 1975 probably means actual 1972/73). So I've got nothing at the moment to suggest Taiwan built 1970-ish Capri, only a dodgy half-memory of something which may or may not be lurking in the collection. |
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◊ 2019-07-24 15:50 |
Wait, so the Cortina, Granada (assuming you mean the Euro Granada, not the American Granada) and Escort were of US origin for Taiwan?? |
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◊ 2019-07-24 16:00 |
No - just that WC info can be scrambled. The listing is an appendix with separate paragraphs for each company's overseas assemblies, with an alphabetical list by country within each paragraph which also says which models were involved. Multinationals like Ford have separate paragraphs for Ford USA, Ford GB, Ford D. The info for Cortina, Granada and Escort assembly in Taiwan has been wrongly entered under USA overseas section when it should be under GB overseas. (And yes it is the Euro Granada, not the US range). -- Last edit: 2019-07-24 16:56:16 |
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◊ 2019-07-24 16:07 |
Oh, I thought that was something new to me  -- Last edit: 2019-07-24 16:16:19 |
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