The Capri was a surprise for me (manual transmission even, unlike the pickup), it was of course the "poor man's Mustang", sold by the same dealers. Apparently several people had already rejected driving a "standard transmission" across the country. There were a lot of UK cars in Canada in the 1970s, GM brought over Vauxhall Vivas etc which were sold as the Epic Envoy by Chevrolet dealers. In Vancouver people drive their cars all year, but in the hard winter country it is common to have separate "summer cars", which the likes of your Capri would be one of, kept garaged all winter, mainly to avoid salt on the roads, and not having winter tyres for it. I think some provinces have a special taxation category for it.
It was 1982. Approaching one small town in Saskatchewan on a lovely summer afternoon with the warm prairie wind blowing, where the CP main line was alongside the road, the eastbound daily "Canadian" was just departing town; saw it slowly coming in the distance, had time to pull over and get a good photo of it. Four F-units and the traditional rolling stock, no two consecutive ones of either locos or coaches in the same colour scheme. Got not only a wave but also a blast on the whistle from the crew. Unfortunately the photos were long lost, otherwise I could put them here.
