Quick update.

She rolls so easily now that I pushed her outside and gave her a good bath. My wife was rather amused watching me. Between all the media from the body being blasted, the glass from the broken 1/4 window and just stuff from the welding and body work it needed a lot of cleanup.



I also removed the 'foam' from the roof around the rusted area, sanded down the rust and put the Eastwood Rust Encapsulator on it. Also found some more rust under the cross brace where the light attached and did the same there.

Did find more rust after cleaning it good. Little stuff so no big holes to fix.

Rolled her back in the garage and called it an afternoon. Not bad for 2 hours of work.

Back home!

First, my wife has a strange sense of humor. When I came back from Church this was in the yard:



(My daughter calls my 06 Mustang GT 'Lightning McQueen' from Cars, so the Capri is Sally.)

I left it there for when Jason and BJ brought the car over.

Here she is on the trailer.



It was a heck of a lot easier to roll off than on! Of course no glass, no hatch, no doors and working front suspension

In the garage:




I also picked up a T-5, a bell housing, clutch, pressure plate a 2.3T short block (separate head and block) and a full long block (minus the exhaust manifold and turbo).








The short block needs to be looked over, but the motor had new pistons, looks like ARP rod bolts. The pistons show some wear on the side skirts. Apparently the wrong rings were put it and it burned a lot of oil so it was pulled. The long block came out of a running xr4ti. (Pictures of the long block next weekend. It's a little heavy so I didn't get it today.)

Here is what the underside of the roof looked like when BJ cut it out. And at first all I thought was it needed a few pin holes welded shut. Wow.



Finished roof:






One area on the fender that will need a lot more attention. There are some ruts from the rust but otherwise both are pretty smooth. The whole car in general has a lot of ruts on it.



Another reason I love my wife. Friday night at dinner I asked her to pick up 4 or 5 new, big bath towels when she was out shopping with our 13 y/o. Without missing a beat she said 'for the Capri I'm assuming?'. Of course I told her I was going to offer to trade her for some of the more beaten up towels we use. Her response "sure you were".

Everything is now nicely tucked back into the garage, waiting for some warm weather, and time!