I first saw my Hooper Consul Capri back in 1988. It was parked in a derelict garage down a small unbuilt lane in Speen, a small village near High Wycombe in Buckinghamshire, UK. The garage and the capri belonged to a couple that lived on the plot in a mobile home. I used to see the car everytime I drove down the lane as it was too big to fit in the garage completely and the boot stuck out with the garage door closed down on it.
Back then, I didn’t know much about the Consul Capri, let alone what a Hooper was. Over the next few years I learnt more about the Consul Capri and decided that I had to have one. I went down the lane on a regular basis to visit the owners of the Capri to see if they wanted to sell it but there was never anyone in, or there was but they never answered the door. When I eventually got an answer at the door, the response wasn’t quite what I was expecting…
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