Japanese event pics.

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Alan,

Thanks as always for your insight. To go a bit off topic with regard to the Ford Capri. About a year ago Classic and Sports Car published an article comparing the Capri to another early seventies Coupe, the Opel Manta. The article was peppered with a bit of sarcastic humor when describing "seventies man" and what he would have chosen to dress up the Capri.

Your comments were spot on when the life cycle of Capri was mentioned. It is curious that the Z would have gone through the same process.

Do you think the E type went through a similar process? In the U.S. there was a period of time in the mid to late seventies when E types could be purchased for relatively small dollars but, the "hooligans" were probably scared of the maintenance bills for the six cylinder unless they swapped in a Yank V8.

Again, thanks for the insight from the Japanese and British perspective.