• By Murilee Martin
    Aug 8, 2008 2:00 PM 2,293
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    1976 Capri II Wants You To Know It's Not A Mercury, Even As It Awaits Crushing

    While Lincoln-Mercury dealers sold the European-made Ford Capri in North America, the cars themselves had no marque. Just to make things more confusing, Ford branded the later Fox Mustang-clone and Mazda 323-based Capris with Mercury emblems. Anyway, none of that matters for this car, which I spotted in an East Bay wrecking yard last weekend, because it has a date with the cold jaws that will get it ready for another spin of the steel-reincarnation wheel.

    1976 Capri Down On The Junkyard



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