Wednesday, May 13, 2009
I was on my way home, when I saw somebody driving a car I'd always thought was an eighties Mustang out to his yard to sell. On my way past, I saw it had a different grille and said RS on the side and the hood. The possibility of it being a Mercury Capri crossed my mind, but I'd never heard of any RS version of the Mercury Capri. I began my search when I got home, searching for "Mustang RS" and even "Escort RS" on Google Images. I knew there had been an Escort RS since the first-gen European Escort in the sixties, but this car was too Mustang-like that it had to be a Mustang or a Mercury. So I finally searched "Mercury Capri RS. And what do you know, many 1980's special edition RS Capris pop up! So I found the identity of the car, and I also knew it wasn't actually the signature RS engine, a 2.3 turbo, because it had the optional 5.0 and all the badging that goes with that. The photo above is from ascmclarencoupe.com. You can figure out what it is by the screaming letters.