Roger Clark Capri  Which of course the Capri has bags of

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  A 3000 GXL Capri badged on the rear with a very famous name in the world of Rally - a Roger Clark Capri Roger Clark Capri

             Unfortunately before I had chance to have a good chat to the owner as dark clouds started forming and he ‘ran’ for home.
I have searched the internet for more information but have drawn a blank. So does anyone of you know anything about these cars, is it an historical rallying car or a commercial business venture by Roger Clark? if the latter are there more out there, or was it one of his personal cars or belonged to a members of his crew?
Given time the story will unfold.
Roger Clark is probably the name that springs to mind when talking about competition Capri’s, though there were many famous named drivers. It’s possibly because he drove the debut Capri on February 8th 1969 at Croft - and won. This specially prepared Capri was a V6 and had 4WD as well as automatic transmission and anti lock braking, but Roger Clark insisted that the latter was removed immediately. After this one and only outing the Capri was mothballed until the 3000 version was launched.
Roger Clarke's V6 engine had modifications by Weslake the company that Fords used for their modifications. Power increasing were said to be 210 - 220 bhp these were obtained using Tecalemit Jackson continuous port injection, larger inlet and exhaust valves and a 300 degree camshaft working in association with an 11.2.1 cr
It was normal to use modified cast iron heads for rally cross but Weslake had a set of aluminium heads similar to the ones used on the Ford V8—they had to be well modified to fit but the outcome was that the heads were fed by straight tube Lucas fuel injection. The engine now measured 3.1 the engine size that was to be later found in the British RS version. To complete the conversion fuel injection trumpets Can-am style meant that a new housing had to be made in the bonnet. A purpose built head with bigger valves and porting put power up to 252bhp at 6100rpm.
BBC Grandstand was THE sports programmed to watch and regularly attracted audiences of 5 million and so it was that they were at Caldwell Park to see the six round Castrol series. The outcome was Capri 1st, 2nd,3rd. They were later to be given time penalties. The cars suffered high drive shaft joint failure during the races and often lapsed onto five cylinders, add to this overheating as mud blocked the radiator (they had a secondary radiator) and coping with a mud covered screen - not a lot of fun.
Roger Clark was noted as saying that the handling was difficult - “a great car with a lot of reaction, not the easiest drive I have had”

We have been asked to remove the picture as the car is copyrighted.