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Originally Posted by Mike Bell
AFAIK that’s just the chassis number off the line. In the UK Ford did allocate ‘batches’ of chassis numbers to the Boreham built Escorts, so it could be that the same happened in Cologne. What evidence is there that the Capri was a race car from day one, and not sold as a road car, then converted later?
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Hi again Mike, sorry I didn’t explain myself very well. The point I’m trying to make is that a quick internet search has come up with the chassis numbers of four confirmed Cologne Capris and they are
GAECPY 19999
GAECPB 19997
GAECNA 19997
GAECLJ 19997
There are others out there that end in 19998 so if the only thing that changes is the letter that defines the month and year. Does this mean that all race cars built at the factory had chassis numbers ending in 97,98 or 99?
This car, allegedly, was raced in Europe after being built in 1971 and then it was exported to the Ford East Africa Importer in about 1973, used at a couple of circuits in Kenya then was laid up for 40+ years.