![]() ![]() We didn’t find solid resale value figures for the 1986 Capri online, but a Mustang of the same year, engine, transmission and number of doors tops out at between $8-12,000 according to Hagerty. A tag under the hood says the air conditioning has been converted to R134a. The seller mentions that the door and hatch seals have all been replaced, perhaps due to cracking and leaking after 35 years of service. Everything looks in order including the areas of the interior we get to see. Other than a few scratches on the passenger side right front fender, nothing glaring pops out in the photos provided. We’re told the car is rust-free and we suspect the paint is original. This ’86 GS with all those attributes has a reported 76,000 miles on the odometer and is a machine you could take to Cars & Coffee without having to do a thing to it. So, the seller’s car could be one that was produced in hundreds of copies, not thousands. Another 2,980 GS models had the pop-up sunroof, and 2,859 Capri’s were painted Medium Red Metallic. ![]() 3,850 came with a 5-speed manual transmission, like the seller’s car. Mercury built some 20,869 Capri’s in 1986, with 17,029 of them being the GS edition. The Capri was offered in up to four models, including the GS like the seller’s car. In addition, the wheel openings were styled with slightly less flaring and the fenders themselves were widened. Those differences were that the Capri was only offered as a 3-door hatchback, it had its own front fascia and a vertically mounted grille, came with and dark-tinted taillights with horizontally ribbed lenses. In technically its second-generation (and the first produced in the U.S.), the Mercury Capri was a Ford Mustang, which a few exceptions. When not in use, it stays in a garage in Willow Grove, Pennsylvania and it’s available here on eBay where the no reserve auction has had only one bid of $7,000. The seller’s ‘86 Capri looks to be a nice survivor and a turn-key car that you could get in and go anywhere. But they shifted gears in 1979 and the Capri became a pony car based on the Ford Mustang Fox-body platform and that association would continue through 1986. Initially, in 1970, the Capri was a European import that gave Mercury an entry into the sport compact market. ![]()
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