The long-nosed, two-door fastback coupé Ford Capri (1969-1986) had a swagger that marketing budgets could not buy. Popstars chose to pose inside the car on their album covers, including reggae superhero Gregory Isaacs on his 1974 debut LP In Person, while TV stars enhanced their characters’ secret-agent status by driving them, namely Bodie & Doyle in the British crime-busting drama series The Professionals (1977-1983). The old Capri had an affordable cachet – as Ford’s European answer to its US Mustang muscle car – and held great appeal among a certain mainstream male customer base, if not always mega sales success, across three decades.
