Cars are our guilty pleasures because we need cars for work, only if: we use them for business purposes solely, when you buy a car and change it and win some prices with its help. Otherwise, you are simply buying a car in order to drive it and feel comfortable or to show it around. Anyway, you want it to stay hot/new/cool as long as possible and we know how to achieve this goal:

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I mean read about your car, visit numerous forums and get consultation how to change it, how to maintain it and etc.;

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Their connection goes well with their age and they are liked for their class-apart appeal and antique design. Yeah, both old wines and vintage cars are loved for their early and ancient flavor. Older they are, better it is, one such typical vintage car design was well modeled by the Fort T.

Much to the delight, of then Englishmen, Ford Motor Company manufactured this archaic car from 1908 through 1927. The Ford T indeed became the rage in 1908 for its reasonable price. It was touted as the most influential car of the twentieth century, which had put America on wheels by being the first affordable automobile.

It almost became a cult after being widely used in the Hollywood films like The Flivver King and the Absent-minded Professor. Why it became so popular, was partly due to the adoption of assemble line production in place of conventional handcrafting and partly for the payment of worker wages in proportion to the cost of the car.

I would like to dedicate my first post in this blog to this very interesting English car - Ford Consul Capri.

Consul Capri was introduced to English public in year 1961. It was proclaimed as the “first personal car from Ford of Great Britain” - basically Consul Capri is a 2-doors coupe version of of the Ford Classic saloon, the first British Ford model. It was designed by Roy Brown, the designer of notorious Edsel model. During the construction and designing, Consul Capri had an internal name “Sunbird”, which meant that it is some kind of hybrid of Ford Thunderbird and the Sunliner.

The vehicle was quit unusual for that time because of such features like disc brakes, four headlights, variable speed wipers, dimming dashboard lights, and a cigar lighter. Consul Capri was equipped with 1340 cc Straight-4 ohv engine, which was replaced in August 1962 by its enhanced variant with 1498 cc.

The first 200 Capris were hand-made left-hand-drive cars for continental Europe. During all the lifetime only 500 cars were sold. Their production was to expensive and retail price was rather high too. Ford Consul Capri was discontinued in July 1964 - after 2,5 years of production only.