As we now have two bubble CBs, I feel the need to up my Greek stereotype game

[Herbert Augustus Chapman]

Capri 2.8i. Black, it was. A beautiful car. It was later stolen from outside a different lady's house while I was engaged in certain intimate activities, this one in Welling.

Next came a brand new Capri 2.8i Special - the one with the fancy alloys, limited slip diff and, in a revolutionary move, a five speed gearbox. Disappointingly, this gearbox entirely lacked the snick-snick switchlike quality of change so beloved of 1970s Ford afficianados.

Escort, Capri, Cortina or Granada, those gearboxes fairly clicked into place. One's first Ford (and usually last) with a woolly indecisive gear box was a major blow to all of us I think.