Monday, June 05, 2023
Capri Ad – color adjusted by GoLocal
EDITOR’S NOTE: This column is written in response to Dr. Ed Innnuccilli’s column titled “A Sexy European with Four on the Floor.”
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My dad penned another great GoLocalProv piece, this one on his 1973 Mercury Capri (“A Sexy European with Four on the Floor”). I’d like to offer a different side to the tale: what it was like to get that car in 1982 when he handed it off to me.
Of course, I was thrilled to get a car, any car, and my Dad is right when he says that zipping around in a 4-speed with a leather shift knob was pretty cool. But by the time I got the Capri, its better days were in the too-small rearview mirror. And there was nothing European about it – just a mud-colored, clearly…
