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Aug 29, 2006 20:49:15 GMT
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I have been tempted by someone very cool sounding early Opel Manta after looking at a stock blue model at a museum and am getting the twinge again. Can you lot please be complete bar-stewards and feed my impulsion by posting some pics up of them that you might have?
Any info on them would also be appreciated, good or bad.
Cheers folks,
Smiler. ;D
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www.Auto-tat.co.uk'96 Range Rover P38 DSE (daily driver) '71 Reliant Scimitar SE5 GTE 3.0ltr Jag V6 Conversion '79 Reliant Scimitar SE6A 3.0ltr 24valve Omega Conversion '85 Escort Cabrio 2.0 Zetec - Sold '91 BMW 525i - Sold '82 Cortina 2.9i Ghia Cosworth - Sold '72 VW Campervan - Sold '65 LandRover 88" - Sold
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Aug 29, 2006 20:58:00 GMT
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Smiler
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Aug 29, 2006 21:00:26 GMT
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Hmmm, I wonder how many of the coupes have been turned into 'General Lee' replicas? ;D
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www.Auto-tat.co.uk'96 Range Rover P38 DSE (daily driver) '71 Reliant Scimitar SE5 GTE 3.0ltr Jag V6 Conversion '79 Reliant Scimitar SE6A 3.0ltr 24valve Omega Conversion '85 Escort Cabrio 2.0 Zetec - Sold '91 BMW 525i - Sold '82 Cortina 2.9i Ghia Cosworth - Sold '72 VW Campervan - Sold '65 LandRover 88" - Sold
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Aug 29, 2006 21:09:46 GMT
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Smiler
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Aug 29, 2006 21:12:46 GMT
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ooh, there cool! I like the racing striped cars! That green one is pretty cool! Cheers for the pics ministrone.  |
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www.Auto-tat.co.uk'96 Range Rover P38 DSE (daily driver) '71 Reliant Scimitar SE5 GTE 3.0ltr Jag V6 Conversion '79 Reliant Scimitar SE6A 3.0ltr 24valve Omega Conversion '85 Escort Cabrio 2.0 Zetec - Sold '91 BMW 525i - Sold '82 Cortina 2.9i Ghia Cosworth - Sold '72 VW Campervan - Sold '65 LandRover 88" - Sold
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Aug 29, 2006 21:15:10 GMT
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Smiler
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Aug 29, 2006 21:24:05 GMT
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Oh stop it you tease! Oh it's no use, Ebay here I come!
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www.Auto-tat.co.uk'96 Range Rover P38 DSE (daily driver) '71 Reliant Scimitar SE5 GTE 3.0ltr Jag V6 Conversion '79 Reliant Scimitar SE6A 3.0ltr 24valve Omega Conversion '85 Escort Cabrio 2.0 Zetec - Sold '91 BMW 525i - Sold '82 Cortina 2.9i Ghia Cosworth - Sold '72 VW Campervan - Sold '65 LandRover 88" - Sold
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Aug 29, 2006 21:25:13 GMT
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Last Edit: Aug 29, 2006 21:25:52 GMT by Ministrone
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Aug 29, 2006 21:34:09 GMT
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Aug 29, 2006 21:35:13 GMT
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I love Manta A's! Beautiful shape with every detail perfect, and even my rough-as-guts one drove nicely.   Lovely one owned by RRer 1900mantasr (?).  My old heap, owned back in 1991/92. It eventually died in 1998 I believe, though I discovered through this forum that its registration lives on gracing a V6-powered A. |
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Smiler
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Aug 29, 2006 21:42:48 GMT
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God, I haven't even got the Scimitar or Dolly Sprint I had planned next yet. Looks like they might have to wait!
So, lots of pics, what's the deal with them? Good? Bad? Cheap? Steep? Modable?
Feed me!!!
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www.Auto-tat.co.uk'96 Range Rover P38 DSE (daily driver) '71 Reliant Scimitar SE5 GTE 3.0ltr Jag V6 Conversion '79 Reliant Scimitar SE6A 3.0ltr 24valve Omega Conversion '85 Escort Cabrio 2.0 Zetec - Sold '91 BMW 525i - Sold '82 Cortina 2.9i Ghia Cosworth - Sold '72 VW Campervan - Sold '65 LandRover 88" - Sold
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Aug 29, 2006 22:01:02 GMT
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Pic I took at CARS  |
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Aug 29, 2006 22:08:33 GMT
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A very nasty looking one from Raby Castle show this year  And this one from Raby show last year  |
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Aug 29, 2006 22:09:50 GMT
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^^^^^^^^ Its amazing how much worse they have made the same car look in one year   |
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Last Edit: Aug 29, 2006 22:16:36 GMT by PhoenixC
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1900sr
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I like Mantas me!
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Aug 29, 2006 22:22:56 GMT
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WST is my car, an almost standard 1900. The blue one in PhoenixC's post is a rather nice Rover V8 conversion. The biggest problem with the A is finding a good one. They do come up for sale quite often, considering how few there are left, but most tend to need a lot of work. Panels are scarce in the UK, but most things can be had from Germany (at a price). Mods wise, there's plenty you can do, from bigger CiH engines (2.2 from a Carlton, 2.4 from a Frontera) to modern GM engines like the XE, Ecotec or LET. There are a few with 6 pot engines from Monza/Omega etc, and of course the Hilmerson one pictured above with Volvo power. then there's the Rover V8 option, or a few are running yank V8s. As for price, basket cases have sold for a couple of hundred, this one sold on ebay today for £830 cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ih=016&item=260022654983&rd=1&sspagename=STRK%3AMEWA%3AIT&rd=1 and this 16v conversion has just sold for somewhere around £2500 www.mantaclub.org/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=8935I recently valued two genuine Broadspeed Turbos for a club member at £10,000 each. |
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Last Edit: Aug 29, 2006 22:29:13 GMT by 1900sr
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Aug 30, 2006 13:39:24 GMT
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Aug 30, 2006 14:53:54 GMT
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hey 1900sr, the guy with the turbos wasnt from the north east was he?
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"quote hairnet"
I'm not paying nine pound for a pi$$!
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1900sr
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I like Mantas me!
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Aug 30, 2006 18:24:58 GMT
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Last Edit: Aug 30, 2006 18:36:27 GMT by 1900sr
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Smiler
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Aug 30, 2006 21:31:50 GMT
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This one please, with a modern engine on fully mapable EFi and polybushed underpinnings. ;D
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Smiler
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Aug 30, 2006 21:33:17 GMT
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Ok, that didn't work, was supposed to be a pic of that black one above with the gold stripes.
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