My photo but sadly not my car!
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Doesn’t get much cooler than a GT40 in Gulf colours!
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It is all about business and their control of vehicle supply to the market. I suspect with the component availability restrictions, the car makers couldn’t have it all and understandably they chose to get the components for the more profitable vehicles. The decline in Fiesta sales I suspect was more to do with the restriction in supply of Fiestas - they simply were not available to buy and customers either stumped up more cash for the likes of the Puma, or had to look elsewhere.
The business thing may well come to bite Ford on the backside as others esp from the east fill the gaps they have created. Magnificent own goal at a time when the cost of car ownership has significantly increased.
Peter
Incredible - I’ll let Ford off with this classic reinvention!
Peter
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I wonder if the Capri was marketed as Classic Capri then MK1 and MK2 etc.
This is the first I remember although a mate did have a MK2 3 litre that was rapid in a straight line. 
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Classic…?
To me, yes, and while not in the same category as @Guinnless Granada, marked the end (to me) of a classic deign period when Ford Introduced the Ford Edge/Kinetic Design.
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There was no connection between the Classic Capri (which was kind of a coupe version of the Classic) and the Capri launched in 68. Just reuse of names which Ford has always done to some extent. The Classic was also known as the Consul Classic and the Consul name was also used with the Mk1 Cortina and the Mk1 Granada.
The current Puma is another example of name reuse (originally a small coupe) all very confusing.
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I was wondering about the Puma chat I remember it being a very small car.
Certainly not Classic like my old 1600E MK 2 Cortina. 
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Loved the 1600E all that wood. My first car was a MkIII 2000E.
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Mine was a 1974 Cortina MK 3 1600 XL Square Headlights in that sweeney copper colour.
How long ago. 
There was a really fine looking metallic copper brown Capri 2000 GXL at the same meet last Sunday. I got chatting with the owner, and had Louby on the lead, so completely forgot to take a photo.
By the way @Guinnless , the Granada is looking really great!
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I had a TDCi but it was a proper workhorse
Clocked up a few miles over 14 years, got to 220k before some expensive repairs came along.
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Following up from comments made under the thread containing your Cossie engine rebuild photos.
I mentioned my All Car Equipe (Charlie Whiting fettled) Escort. Well after searching for the only photos I have of her for much of the past few days, here she is!
My first true love (!) started life as an ex. insurance company car, a 1970 Escort 1300L, sold to a member of staff in 72 & then on to me in September 74. By the time I got her the following changes had been made by the previous owner:-
1300 GT head
High-lift cam
Webber 28/36 DCD twin choke carb
Four branch exhaust
Lotus distributor
Ford alloys & super wide 165 tyres!
Bilstein shocks all round from a written off 1800 Twin Cam
I added the glass fibre Mexico wheel arches (bought from All Car Equipe for £13 a pair if I remember correctly), partly for looks but mainly as the rear arches were rusting quite badly. It took ages to do as I did it all by hand, including the spraying. I did a pretty good job as you had to get within a couple of feet before you could begin to see that they weren’t original.
I owned the car until January 1978 & took the mileage from 50 to 90 thousand. It never let me down & I only sold it when I got my first company car, a brand new Austin Allegro which felt 8 years old & made my Escort feel like new.
I bought it for £400 & sold it for £465. How times have changed in the second-hand market! I got married in October 1978 & the £465 was the deposit on our first house!
Great memories, she didn’t owe me a penny!
The photos aren’t exactly best quality as they were taken with a 110 Instamatic (the future of photography at the time!) in February 1977:-
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Great stuff, just what I like 
The tyres on the Cossie are only 205 wide but the tyres are much better then the ones available in the 1970s although Michelin XZX tyres were a bit of a leap forward at the time and most likely the best road tyre available.
You do realise that your Escort would be worth 20k now 
partly because it is the desirable two door body shell. 
The pics are really good for 110 film!
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This is the oldest pic I have of “Old Faithful”. That is my dad in the photo and I am now older than he is there. We drove from Manchester to Oxfordshire to see a mate of mine to do some emergency welding on a suspension point. This was done and a load of other corrosion was found 
so I did a rolling restoration (learning to weld as I went along) whilst using it to go to and from work.
Once all the welding was done my mate did a cellulose respray for me and the end result looked like this. This was the mid 1990s.
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This is my 2005 MkI Ford Fiesta ST. I bought it when it had 19000 miles on the clock and kept it for ten years, selling it when it had 95000 on the clock. I loved it throughout my ten years of ownership and only parted with it as increasing mobility issues meant that I could no longer look after it as I wished. I really miss that car!
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Im waiting for a 1980 " W" reg XR3 to appear. A good mate if nine had one when it was 6 years old. He thought he was king of the road.
“W” would still be on carbs and a four speed. My mates brother had an “X” plate one with the five speed fitted but still on carb’d - sadly this car appears to have been gone since 1993.
I had a Y reg company Escort 1.1 Economy. It was the most gutless car I have ever driven, very slightly improved by fitting a £20 electronic ignition system from Halfords!
The best bit about it was, being 6’2", I didn’t really fit in the small, non-adjustable seats so the company allowed me to fit an adjustable rally seat which looked good & was extremely comfortable. The icing on the cake was when I fitted an original XR3 steering wheel which both looked the business & felt great in the hand.
But that car was slow with a capital S!