I will just say this thing is very cool!
Wow, very cool - I love it!!
Those 15″x 8″ BBS wheels look great - wish the Raders used for the Gs were a more aggressive size and dish. And without the manufacturing flaws 
- Phillip
Looks like an IMSA car for the street. 
Thats a sweet ride. I love the capris of that era.
I actually preferred the Capri over the same year Mustang.
It may not be legal for the street depending upon what state you live in.
Agreed
Ok, I don’t get it… 
The flared wide body kit is cool but beyond that it’s a poor executed attempt at a track built car even when you consider it was built in 1980. Way under powered around 120 hp I would guess for a DBA engine. Stock brakes with rear drums but yet cooling ducts are functional? Why what are they cooling 
I see no ducts actually going to the brakes. Who puts heated seats in a race prep car? I guess I put it in the category of a young kid that has a Honda civic that installs different wheels and a rear wing and pretends it’s a fast race car. A Miata would even beat this on the track. The bid is up to $28,000 
I guess I might be out in left field on my opinion of it.
Brian, I don’t necessarily disagree w/your assessment, but looking at it from a collector’s point of view it’s an early fox body tuner build: an interesting styling and engineering exercise that involved some well known folks & got press back in the day. They didn’t take the car as far as they could have, but I don’t think the goal was to make a track beast. I bet that Cossie is good for closer to 200 hp @ the crank.
Slap on a big stinkin turbo, 5 lug axles & big brakes and get after it.
but really who wants to drive a miata 
Just so happens I have a Miata, With the 6 speed and 4 wheel disc brakes this little 2400 pound bomb is a blast to drive. Just a PIA to get in and out of.
I almost bought a new 124 for the same reason. It was a blast to drive but I get a much better deal on the Camaro.
you know I have always heard from guys that have them. Its a love hate relationship I think, 
This is a prototype, and a lot of the work was done by Ron Fournier (if the listing is truthful).
For those who may not know, Fournier was an extraordinary fabricator and welder at Kar-Kraft and did a lot of work on the GT40s, including welding many of the “bundle of snakes” exhaust systems. He left KK to go work for A. J. Foyt.
- Phillip
I guess I always error on the side that you buy the car and not the story. I would want some good documentation such as pictures of them working on it during the build. If you take the story away all you have is a half ass attempt at building a track car. A google search shows the motor was made for the Ford Escort at 120hp. later version with fuel injection alum bigger block got it up to 280 hp. If Neal put some race slicks on his Miata he would embarrass that car on the track.
https://www.ridgewayraceengines.co.uk/ford-cosworth-bda-bdg-engine-history
- Somewhere in the pics is Ford literature that says it was good for 185 hp. Not bad for a street car in 1980.
- Yesterday, someone found 47,500 reasons to buy it.
- No disrespect to Neal, but I would take that challenge. Slick are right out: both run shaved street tires & upgrade the brake pads/fluid.
- Anybody know the new owner?
Chris I see the one picture it states 185 Bhp, must have missed that. That extra 65 hp would definitely help it out going around the track if that power is in a usable rpm range. The brakes on that would over heat in less then five laps and Neal would wave 
at you as he continued around the track. Your only hope in beating the Miata would be to get enough gap on the straights that you didn’t have to push it and brake hard in the corners.
The 185hp puts it closer to my Cobalt SS at 260hp without the tune on. I bet I could lap it during a 20 minute track secession with street tires and stock brakes. Still not really fair comparing 2008 tech against 1980 tech with the hp difference.
Heh, it would be fun to find out, but the new owner will probably be taking this thing on & off the trailer vs. chasing Miatas & Cobalts around.
I can see it now: We get the new owner interested, & TireRack to sponsor the car prep & open track shoot out. Neal in his MIata, you in the Cobalt, & some hot shoe in the Cossie. We’ll put those RoadKill hacks right out of a job, LOL.
It’s a 1980 Capri. Pretty sure it would smoke anything Mazda made when it was 1980. Sure modern crap is faster but see what your 1980 Mazda sells for today and then compare to the price this one got. And your modern Miata will be a bunch of shredded plastic and aluminum when it is 40 years old.
Set it up Chris I’m in… that would be lots of fun 