4x4 FORD COSWORTH CAPRI *550BHP* *NOS INJECTED*
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- Опубликовано: 4 авг 2024
- Here I show a classic and go through a lot of nostalgia. This is the 4x4 Ford Cosworth Capri featured on Jeremy Clarkson's DVD "At Full Throttle" built by Peter 'Rusty' Kennedy. This car was an animal even 20 years ago, the £25,000 Capri demolished a £250,000 Brabus Mercedes with ease. Truly a one of a kind car! RIP Rusty, lets hope his dream lives on forever and continues to inspire, like it did for me.
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It is a beautiful car , beautifully restored , the performance is a bonus , Rusty was obviously a genius , Ford should bring back the Capri.
The Capri was a one off that can't be replicated. If they tried, it would probably end up as some awful SUV with an electric motor. No thanks, I'll stick with the original masterpiece.
If ford had made the probe or cougar rear wheel drive they would have sold 10-50x as many as they did imo 👍
Thing is it’s not a Capri though. It’s a saph floor pan. So I’m struggling to see how it kept it’s capri identity.
@@gf845 😳
They definitely should. It'd be great if they did. Proper bloke's car.
I am so sad to hear Rusty has passed away. He was a lovely man and I bought my first YB engine unit from him at the “Union Garage” he showed me how to wire up the unit, which I made 4x4 and shelled it into an XR4x4 on a D plate. He was building the Capri at the time and WOO started life as 1.6 Lazer automatic. I had endless 1/4 mile races at York Raceway with Rusty in H810 JNE and he like most drag racers where a small friendly community, H810 JNE eventually managed a 10.96 quarter in the early 90’s and it was all thanks to Rusty, teaching me the craft.
he fitted me a torque convertor in my supra i used to go to racing at york and sandapod, i had a bump in mine at york been sat for years, some great memories back in the day and rusty was a nice humble guy. my best time was 11.962@114mph on stock turbos but with cams and cam gears and decatted exhaust. seen your just do 1/8th mile racing now. when i had a mk3 supra in the 90s had a couple of mates with xr 4x4 cars. do like the old fords like mk1 escorts
These absolutely works of art, are righfully cherished in the car community. Not a capri fan myself, but definitely a fan of anyone putting this level of effort and determination into a vehicle. The results speak for themselves. Absolutely amazing!
Never been a Capri fan but appreciate an amazing conversion. She looks superb and hope she has a long and cherished life.
Absolutely!
Absolutely a brilliant story finding WOO in the bushes 👍🙂😎
Hay man this Capri is a total work of art... Rusty was a complete engineering marvel!! RIP Sir.
If i had to pick between this and a 2022 anything, id choose this. It's so beautiful
No contest. Its the kinda power the Capri always deserved.
What can i say the man who pit this together was a artisan. CANT BEAT OLD SCHOOL specially fords. Absolutely love this car..
It was built years ago by Mr Kennedy (can't remember first name) and went 0-60 in under 3sec 20yr ago. Absolutely mental........edit Peter Kennedy that's it
AN artisan
Still think the silencers are too big.
However……. Hell yeah.
Gorgeous car for sure, I love the colour too
I've owned a few MK3 Capris, and did a lot of work on them (I even put a 2.9 Granada engine and hybrid MT75 gearbox in one). Even after all these years I'm still so familiar with them that without checking I know that the factory speedo went up to 140, and that tacho isn't standard. I know that (As far as I can tell on my monitor) the car's painted in the Capri 280's "Brookland Green" [Edit - Yes, I now know it's mallard green. As I said below, on this cheepo monitor it looked close enough to Brooklands for me to assume...... You lot can stop telling me now. :D ], but it can't BE a Capri 280 because they didn't get released until a couple years after this car was registered. The front seats aren't standard, the rear seat backs look like they've been redone with less padding, and the front wheels are about 1.5 to 2" further back than usual ............. And it STILL took me a few seconds to notice that it had Sierra inner wings ! The level of workmanship I'm seeing is breath taking. 99% of it looks like it left Ford that way !
It's sad that someone who could put this much skill into a project car is now gone, but to me, it's even sadder that the government's constant demonising of cars means few of the younger generations want to get involved in this amazing car modifying culture, preferring to lease a new bland standard car every 3 years, never do any spanner work on it themselves, and even going to the extent of calling out breakdown services when they get a flat tyre ! There's now a couple of generations who've predominantly never learn a whole slew of basic life skills that tinkering with cars taught so many of the folks before them. :(
I believe it’s finished in Escort Cosworth Mallard green and those front seats look like Sapphire Cosworth Rouse Sport items 🤔
This car always fascinated me, along with the 4x4 YB MK I Escort and Mondeo from a year or so prior.
Colossal amounts of fabrication in both of those cars too.
And funnily enough they were both green too.
@@SANDSCORCHER Fair enough, As I said, It looks like Brookland green on this screen, but I know that colour balance isn't always that good on these cheap TFT monitors. :D
Interesting you mentioning a MK1 Cosworth swapped escort though. About 20 to 25 years ago I was offered a MK1 track day car with a YB engine, narrowed 2.8 LSD axle, pretty new Bilstein's all around, and lots of other really nice kit on it. The price wasn't too bad either because it needed both cill's replacing. the engine sounded sweet, and it was REALLY quick. At the time I had a 2.1 Capri Laser project car, and didn't have anywhere to put another car, so I passed it up. I've kicked myself for not getting that ever since, and when I saw this Capri's engine bay in this video it got me thinking about this one that got away again. :(
Those clocks are out of the donor Sierra Cosworth by the looks of it, along with the seats. The clocks must have been shaped to fit the Capri's round binnacles.
It's coachwork is Ford Mallard green, a Cosworth only colour, not Brookland green. , says it clearly on the tags shown in the video. Clocks are Sierra Cosworth 4x4, it goes past 170mph, seats are custom. Rear feats and door cards are 280
@@SANDSCORCHER correct buddy
I remember this capri, nice to see it up on you tube, it was definitely around in mid 90s, he lived around Glossop area I believe, a friend of mine went out in. So he basically cut the front off (bulkhead forward) welded the Sierra front on and put the capri body panels back on.
Work of art. I've always loved the Capri since I was a kid in the 80's. And this one is a dream. I hope you still drive it. You can't keep a Stallion like that shut away.
I can actually remember reading about this car in Max Power magazine all those years ago. I'd always loved the Capri, and seeing one with a Cosworth 4x4 conversion and finished in Mallard green, well it didn't get much better than that! I also remember being amazed at the amount of work and ingenuity that had gone into this build.
British Racing Green, if you please. sir. I remember seeing the conversion in the Capri Club International fanzine in the '90s. A truly awesome conversion.
I cannot believe how deep that shine is. You could drown in it. Just Wow!
Im American, but i have family in Birmingham. In 2004 i was visiting my cousin and we watched that damn dvd 300 times. I couldn't believe it when i saw the thumbnail. Ive been telling my buddies here about that car for 20 years. Right on man. Respect.
I remember that dvd I used to watch it with my grandad. that's crazy altogether how this popped up... rusty was a proper legend.
I remember seeing it run an 11 on a pretty damp York Dragway back around 2000, it just hunkered down and went like hell. Completely forgot it was in that dvd.
Wasn't there a twin engined Renault 5 GT Turbo that also ran at York ?
Stunning car and a beautiful peace of history. So glad it's being looked after.
This is a work of art. 👍
O.M.G. What a car . as a Capri owner back in the late 70s and a car sprayer , what a first class paint job , let alone everything else the fantastic car as had done , i still dream and wish I had mine . TOP CAR IS THAT .
I just stumbled on this video and what a cracking motor, I remember the dvd and what a flying machine it was and still is.
Holy throw back !! Wow that’s a car I’ve not seen for absolute years awesome to know it’s being cared for top video buddy as always
Cheers man👌
At Full Throttle!!!! I watched that hundreds of times as a kid… absolutely brilliant, I can’t believe this is the same Capri!?
That paint job has elevated this car way beyond what it was
I doubt very much if this is now "the slowest car on the road"! As an owner of various Capris in the early 80s I appreciate WOO for the iconic car and unique build that it is. So inspiring. Want to look for another Capri now 😁👍👌😎
Very nice, I’ve always had a soft spot for Capris since watching the 3.0s in the professionals back in the day! 550 bhp back in early 2000s was almost unheard of. What a weapon 👍
What an absolute credit to Rusty and the people looking after it today 👏 👏👏 back in the late 70s a mate had an old battered Morris 1000 that others would pull along side and take the P out of. What they didn't know it was powered by a V8 3500cc engine and he used to wave good by to them with a massive smile 🤣🤣
OMG I remember this car. I have always loved the Capri. Glad to see the beast is still alive 👍
That's a real legend.. RIP Rusty.
I remember this car and even when I was in my late teens I said one day I'll build this!
You don't know how much I would love to see this in person!
Antique art 👏🏻👏🏻
What a brilliant story, I can remember the Car and the DVD but this is enlightenment. The build on this car is absolutely top drawer. It's like it was built in a way that it was meant to be in the first place.
I'm not really a ford fan but how can you not be touched by this car. Thanks for bringing it to us that did not see the original vid.
Lovely paint! Cool and unique car. Thanks for the clip.
Certainly is a beautiful looking car, I'm 59 years old now, how time fly's, I had 2 capris back in my younger days a 3 litre v6 then a 1.6 GL, both crackers to drive, i still like cars and done a project all on my own by converting a bmw e46 convertable into a m3 convertable, and it looks lovely, it kind of made me skip a heart beat when he said Rusty had passed away, as it makes me feel sad when a engineer like myself, has built a beautiful machine in his time only to pass away, anyway great film enjoyed the memory .
What a lovely story. Not usually a capri lover but WOW this is something super special. The smile on your face says it all.
I know exactly how you are feeling I found my late fathers series one rs turbo 20 years after he sold it. I was lucky enough to persuade the owner to sell it to me. It’s absolutely mint. I love it. You just can’t beat the old school fords. 👍
Great video. CheeRS
Just stunning I felt like I was 21 again watching this amazing capri
Okay normally I'm long-winded but I'm going to try and be short and sweet. I'm a 46 year old American, who in the '80s found out about top gear, I had family stationed in Europe so they brought your all's magazines back home to us and we had the Capri in America. I always thought they were cool, when I saw this thing I wanted one. Years later video video games allowed me to create my dream where I didn't have the money in reality to do it. I told people about this car and the inspiration for it and people never believed that it existed when I told them, a few Brits that I've raced on the game knew about it but otherwise it was relatively unknown. Now I can share this story with my video game buddies who don't know about it. Thank you so much man for bringing back a very great memory of a very early inspiration for a car geek.
I remember this on Full Throttle. Loved the intro filmed up at Buckstones.
What an absolute beauty…,I had a cosworth 4x4 and a Capri 2.8 special ( wish I had now ) but this looks absolutely perfect 👍…. Rip Rusty
Woo :) i remember this car back in the day. Superb car, and looks superb today.
I was lucky enough to be in that DVD Full Throttle, i was 1 of the 10 Escort Cossie owners :) way back. Great days and great fun.
Great video.
Have never seen this car before but I'm an instant fan. The backstory is excellent. Thanks for showing this and telling Rustys story.
You should tag Clarkson in and see if he remember the car, would be good as a tribute to the gent that built it. Beautiful build love the colour 👍
My favorite Capri shape. And what a wonderful paint job!
this story has put tears in my eyes, thankyou for sharing this.
I'm in love, not only is it a tool it's stunning. She's beauty and the beast in one
I knew this car was special when i first saw it on Instagram a couple of weeks ago, after watching this special just doesn't do her any justice!
That is absolutely beautiful dude what a fantastic car , and great story to ….rip rusty hope your showing them how build decent cars in the great garage in the sky ✊
Went to York raceway with a friend back in the day got to say I wasn’t really bothered about going but boy I’m so glad I did ! There was a cosworth capri that smashed everything it raced (obviously WOO) it stuck in my mind ever since that day it was stupid fast for the time i mean just WOW ! I couldn’t get my head round how that car left the line never seen a car move like it and I didn’t know that it was in a clarkson video or think I would ever see it again that car has been on my mind best part of 30 years , mate the impression that car left on me was insane I didn’t want a Ferrari I didn’t want a Porsche I wanted that capri and I’m so glad you have put it on you tube 👍🏽😎 just made my day ! Fantastic thank you 🙏🏼
A ford capri was the 1st car I drove. It was in the snow on a pub car park on a quiet evening it was like the waltzers at the fairground absolute amazing memory thank you for jogging that 1 as the person I was with is no longer here. Rest pops.
I just want one, always loved Capris, this is the best one ever, we didn't see a lot of them downunder in Oz and my previous favourite was an RS3100 driven by A.J.Cant at Bathurst then restored to road going
I remember the clarkson video , and the max power magazine, this car was like a Unicorn it was rare and desired and talked about in hushed whispers by those that knew, I remember trying to tell people about this but before the web the only known public available stuff was the mag and vhs .... for 20 + years I searched the Web just for a picture , I had to settle for screen grabs etc , I would like to say r.i.p rusty he probably never knew the cult underground following that spread in the early days I was aware it was drag raced but could never get over to see it back.in the day , and to rusty and his freinds and the current owner I thank you for keeping a dream (as that's all it would ever be for me) alive and running. This car is a true gem and I hope that it continues to be around for the future and continues to inspire people and the current generations. And thanks for the video it made me smile and for a moment I remember being younger and thinking the first time I saw this (already a massive max power and fast car mag fan) I want that ..... I want thay over all else and Would deffinatly of lost my licence lmao
Too one
Thanks for the kind words mate, we will keep the legend alive
That is a very special car. Excellent engineering and it is great to see it well looked after now.
I remember back in the day various Capris 2.8i and 3ltrs driving around Barnet and seriously they left everything behind!! they are always going to be an iconic car!
Live on the Capri 😃
Smith and Sniff sent me here and all that. Awesome build on that side of things.
Lovely Car!! would be worth bringing up to date, Modern ECU, Injectors etc.. Not a Huge fan of the rear Back boxes though
Rear silencers are gash.
But if its true to its original form, its gotta stay. Plus tbh I remember in the millennium everyone had a 4" Outward Rolled tip on their Ford so this is fairly subtle by Ford standards
@@paulwisdom5383 if it hasn't got a 4" rolled tip it's not a cossie or an rst 😂😂
No!!!
The twin can 4 inch was the must have of the day
@@gavinrichardson3918 it really wasn't. The boxes are too large and hang too low.
Beautiful looking Capri 👌🏻
Great car, great video and an excellent salut to its creator Rusty. I was personally never into Capris and never thought of combining Sierra 4x4 technology and the Capri III’s definitely good looks. What a wonderful outcome! Now I’m reevaluating the Capri in my mind . . . but now it would have to be 4x4. Thanks for all the effort, cost and dedication you put into researching, planning and producing these very exceptional and for me sometimes inspirational videos.
I absolutely loved the Capri, My folks had one, My brother had one.... And this one is in epic condition.... Well done that man 👍
Fantastic, never saw the Clarkson video but very much remember the magazine right up of this fantastic bit of engineering. Combined my three favourite things at the time, the Capri (mate had a 1.3L!!), the ford 4x4 system (work mate had the XR4x4) and of coarse the Cosworth engine (well , what we all wanted!). Thank you TTEC for the video and your very obvious passion for the car and the person behind it
Rusty was a legend round them parts he built my mates sapphire cosworth and that was some machine. He was the man to go to for ford's( RIP Rusty you legend cheeRS for the memories x) good video buddy
Met him once at a mad cruise, top bloke stood talking about the car for ages 👌
What a legend he was and what a legacy to leave behind 👏👏👏
I remember this fondly, I used to buy all the clarkson specials, thank you so much for this 👍🏻
Our pleasure 👍🏻
Blown away to be honest, the car is unbelievably stunning the paint the interior its beautiful then the performance and engineering invloved, then a story good enough for a movie.
Thankyou cracking information 👍
You rescued a legend,I had all Clarksons dvds back in the day and remember this capri. I'm sure it was put against a cerbera too
Lovely glassy paint. She looks amazing👍🏻
Im a local lad and met rusty up at his unit as my old boss was building a 4 door saffy. Really nice bloke and very interesting. I to saw Woo in the back garden and couldn't believe it.
He had a really nice xpack rally spec Sierra from memory.
Great job mate !! I had a Laser 1.6 in the 80s as couldn't afford a 2.8 injection, although that was the one I really wanted. A corporal colleague of mine had a black 2.8i when I was in the RAF, I was always jealous of Leroy "Blakey" Blake back then. I managed to blow my Capri up on the M40, Leroy came and saved me in his 2.8i, never forgotten that day !! Yours looks amazing.
Wow! Absolute machine 🔥
What a legend he was never meet him would have loved to thanks for posting. RIP Rusty.
That's a beautiful car! Rusty did a fantastic job on that. RIP Rusty!
I remember your corsa from back in the day on corsasport forum and shows and meets. Keep up the good work. 👍 Regards KITcorsa
I'm probably one of the first to MOT this car back when Rusty first built her approx. 1993/94.... if my memory is correct🤔 🤔.
I was foreman at Rick Whyman's Saddleworth Motor Co Ford.
I seem to remember it being a lighter metallic green post build ?
However, could be wrong.
Great guy Rusty, I couldn't believe he brought it in for me to look at it, he was super proud of it 😎🤟 Union Garage Mossley.
York drag strip, there's another great memory..... first time I saw a Transit Cosworth built by a bike builder, I seem to remember to transport his bikes🤔🏍.
Great days, great memories, RIP RUSTY until we meet again 🙏😎🤟👍
I will still have the MOT, Rusty kept all the documents
met the guy a few times hi fitted me a torque convertor in my supra in early 2003 or 4 that single post car lift he had was a bit dodgy lol used to drop 2 inches when he was working on cars. we once went on a cruise with him back in the day with my mate in his white r33 gtr and i was in mk4 supra cars bring so many memories same with like minded car nuts rip Rusty
Holy F that is so cool what a build that is as the plaque says "legend".
Just about the rarest car in the world really and done so well,better than factory really.
RIP Rusty that build is mechanical beauty.
Pure Cool from start to finish and clearly the guys life also
Nice video. Very respectful to Rusty his friends and family.
Oh geez that sounds so beautiful. You are so talented and so very lucky. Being a big fan of the Capri(having owned 4 through the 80's & 90's). I remember the video and I remember being in awe at that car.
What a lovely beautiful outstanding car the capri was the one for me . I loved the 2.8 capri . Keep that car safe RIP Rusty
What a Beauty!! I’m in love ❤❤ Thanks to God it’s been restored and now will be around for many years to come!! Hip Hip Hurrah what awesome friends!! Thanks for this video, even your musical score 🎼 is banging ‼️
What a stunning beast of a car 👌
Best paint job ive seen for many years
Paintwork is amazing
What a machine i bet the capri handles now👍
Like she is on rails
What a great story big 👍up, gotta love an old ford
Remember years ago when i used to go to car cruises with my skyline r33 mate called lee from leeds. he had a mechanic mate over on moors on m62 he was called rusty he had a capri 4x4 cosworth powerd he built the car. he had a thunder saloon cosworth shell in his garage. He used to race in lots of events against other escort cosworths. Rusty the guy fitted me a uprated torque convertor for me in my supra. many years ago round about 2002 to 2003. Sad news to hear he passed away he was a very humble guy from the few times i have met the guy. will always remember his garage with the single hydrolic car lift that when he was working on the car would drop 2 inch. glad to have met the guy and salut his skills producing a iconic car. R.I.P rusty
Respect ❤
I am around the same age as you, remember the car well, and love what his mates are doing with it.
Possibly the nicest build iv seen for many years 💪🏽🇬🇧👍🏽
12 mins 34secs. The clocks are out of a sapphire cosworth but mounted in the capri housings. Absolutely love this car, first saw it at a max power event, clearing very fast, then it’s on Jeremy clarksons dvd. Always wondered what engine was in it, now I know, thanks so much for doing this video. RIP rusty
Thats in Superb condition. Amazing
This car is legendary. Love the video Beardy. Does anyone else here remember a black 5 door Sierra with a red drivers door and grey bonnet that used to do the rounds on the Oldham and Rochdale car scene. It had a 2.9 cosworth engine with a turbo technics and 4x4 conversion and was running well over 500hp. For a time it annihilated anything it went up against. Don’t know if Rusty worked on that car too? The owner wanted to buy my sapphire cossie shell but we couldn’t agree a price.
Thank you for this. I'd never heard of this car and I love Capris. I'm quite emotional over your video!! 💯👌🤘💖
I remember that DVD i had one
I remember this Capri too
Good to see it’s still alive!
What a car and great story mate very cool !!
Beautiful motor Beautiful story! Rip rusty may his legacy forever roll on👍
Loved the carpet on the floor of the garage the most. The car wasn't to bad either.
What a cracking video. Brilliant work bud.
Ford Capri Mk3 4x4 Cosworth is Pure Class, what a Motor leaves the 1000hp Toyota Supra, Holden & Brabus for dust. Clever Man Rusty hat's off RIP 🎩🙏
Remember this in max power..beautiful machine so glad it's still here
Old Fords never die - they just go faster.