They were a favorite of our Mulholland racing buds in the mid seventies. 7 x 13 Libres with race slicks, lose the big bumpers, install an Interpart suspensions kit (Brock's trick set up), a race seat and they really went.
The factory in Cologne even built an RS version for Yurup
. 2.6 mfi motor, chin whisker front bumpers, lowered suspension, race style seats, other goodies in the effort to homologate them like the 911 2.7RS.
The V6 was torquey, but not a lot of beans compared to similar weight 389/302 V-8s (which some figured out would fit just fine)
In South Africa, the car was very popular and Olthoff built a small run of V8 powered ones called Pirana. I think one of them won a big African Rally too.
Hard to find these days as rust and neglect have claimed the majority of them.
did you know that NASA race group was originally the Capri club out of Nor Cal ?
