My Desultory Blog

RichC | February 1, 2024

Contemplating classic cars after seeing a good looking late 1960’s Pontiac Firebird 400 while filling up at Costco. I posted a comment on X.com and it gave me a ThrowBack Thursday #TBT excuse to repost a couple old black and while of photos of my first junkyard rebuildable … my 1974 Capri (it was pea […]

Category: Automotive, Memories, Photos, Social Networking, TBT | No Comments »
Tags: capri, costco, firebird, honda, mercury, odeyssey, pontiac, rebuildables, twitter, x.com

RichC | December 15, 2022

First up, is a rainy photo of the second car that I rebuilt … but this 1974 Capri was really my first car since I bought it with my own money (paid $600 at a junkyard in 1978). The car I think of as my first car would be a 1967 Ford Custom 500 (link […]

Category: Archive, Automotive, Friends, Memories, Personal, Photography, Photos, Sailing, TBT | No Comments »
Tags: 1974, ada, archive, capri, ford custom 500, founders hall, jeffp, kiser lake, mercury, ohio, old photos, onu, rebuild, sailboat, sidney, TBT, thistle

RichC | January 28, 2020

As a German car guy from way back (VW, Mercedes, BMW), there was time I really wanted to also have a Porsche. When I was looking for my first car, it was an economical 914 with a Targa top … but ended up with a 1974 Mercury Capri (probably a smart move). Later in life […]

Category: Automotive, Memories, Photos | No Comments »
Tags: accessories, boxer, capri, flatnose, hemmings, luggage, mercury, porsche