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"RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht" (ramblininexile) 04/07/2015 at 15:19 • Filed to: None

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I like the Capri bubblebutt.

Your boy, BJR > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 04/07/2015 at 15:22

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OMG! Same!

KnowsAboutCars > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 04/07/2015 at 15:24

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This always reminds me of SA RX-7 rear end.

505Turbeaux > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 04/07/2015 at 15:26

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my favorite. Bubble butts 4 lyfe

DAT glASS

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > KnowsAboutCars 04/07/2015 at 15:30

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Also, somewhat like the Pacer but more subdued glass and a sportier look.

petebmwm > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 04/07/2015 at 15:34

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i like the box fenders.

That Bastard Kurtis - An Attempt to Standardize My Username Across Platforms > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 04/07/2015 at 15:37

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Second. I bought one with a Mustang hatch on it, and the first thing I did was source a bubble hatch. Didn't match the paint, didn't care.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > petebmwm 04/07/2015 at 15:49

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I like them more on this than the 944. For one, the car is overall a bit more squared off, and for two, they're less obtrusive.

RallyWrench > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 04/07/2015 at 15:57

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Needs the bigger lip spoiler to look "right" to me, but I can dig it.

MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 04/07/2015 at 15:59

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LOVE ME SOME CAPRI

bubbleback baby!

Textured Soy Protein > KnowsAboutCars 04/07/2015 at 16:50

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I think the lights are more FB than SA.

petebmwm > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 04/07/2015 at 16:53

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Agreed, and you can also fit big rubber under there...

Buick Mackane > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 04/07/2015 at 18:07

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Then you will also like the Jensen Interceptor.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Buick Mackane 04/07/2015 at 18:10

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I'm familiar already, but you're not wrong.

BoxerFanatic, troublesome iconoclast. > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 04/07/2015 at 18:35

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I love Fox-body cars... but I have long hated that. It just makes the rear end of the car look visually heavy and bloated.

It may be aerodynamic, but the front end of the car isn't, anyway.

I do love the Capri's boxed fender flares, though. I have made a mental plan of what I would do to combine the best of Capri and Mustang into one Super-Fox Ford with an alternate engine, and an SVT Cobra IRS...

but then I realized, I was just building a clone of the 86.5-92 MA-70 Toyota Supra targa-top, and I might as well get one of those.

Really, in terms of aerodynamic, streamlined front-engined coupes, Porsche 928s do it far better, are better cars, and some are almost as cheap to buy, and rare to find as a clean Fox Body anymore... maintaining may be a different story...

BoxerFanatic, troublesome iconoclast. > RallyWrench 04/07/2015 at 18:49

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I LOVE a t-top fox body with frameless side window glass... that combined with the Capri boxed fenders... that is a great Fox Ford...

But I would still put a Mustang hatch on it... which Capris had anyway, before 1983. Plus, it would allow for an 87-93 Mustang GT wing... which is my favorite spoiler option on a Fox Mustang. The straight lines look right with the angular side windows and horizontal body-lines, and the elevated wing looks more interesting than the LX solid spoiler.

Although everybody else seems to prefer 93 Cobra wings (too much like Camaro RS high wing, which should have been a Trans Am wing, since it copied the '69 Trans Am) Or, they like the Saleen whale-tail wing... which I think is a bit 'too much.'

I do prefer the 93 Cobra rear bumper cover that the car I pictured is wearing, with the GT spoiler, on an otherwise mostly bare LX body and LX tail lights. The Cobra rear bumper cover has a nice shape, but isn't nearly as visually bulky as the 87-93 GT rear skirt, though, nor as plain as the LX rear bumper cover.

I would keep the 84-86 SVO/93 Cobra/83-86 Mustang center-bar tail lights, though.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > BoxerFanatic, troublesome iconoclast. 04/07/2015 at 18:53

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I'm a bigger fan of the 924 than the 944, and the 928 visually does some of the things the 944 tries on *better*. That being said, I like the Fox Capris for their brashness - it isn't what they do visually right that's compelling so much as what they do wrong, and I think that's a highlight of their "80s-ness". Nothing too galling, and lots of weirdness that doesn't *quite* work, but through which you can see sort of an Aristotelian ideal of what it could only be if it weren't for the pesky constraints of our reality. The Supra, in contrast, is too clean. Too sterile. Too well done. If I want something with lines that good, I'll shop Porsche, because they also have something of the fledgling eagle about them - a shape with power and certainty, but new born and still... fuzzy around the edges.