I know it's non-volvo but I thought a few pwople might enjoy a look at my latest purchase, a 1975 Opel Manta A. Originally a 1900SR, it now packs a C20XE from a cavalier GSi, with Yamaha R1 carbs and megajolt mappable ignition.
It has a few rough spots, and some nasty paint reactions on the roof where it had a cheap respray a while back, but it'll do for now.
Pics or it didn't happen!










To do:
Headlights and surround,
rear lights,
seatbelts,
spark plugs,
fit back window,
weld up one small rust hole.

Wish me luck won't you?

Good Luck man.
Not that youll need any with that pimpmobile.

supercoolz.

Seriously lush man! Mantas FTW!

Check this:

Is the "C" Manta going to look like this? [German news paper]

2 Fast 4 U wrote:Check this:

Is the "C" Manta going to look like this? [German news paper]

Hopefully not! It's just a new camaro with different headlights looking at that pic lol, hopefully they'll be a little more original than that, not holding my breath mind either way it'll still never look as good as it's retro brothers!

Ooh, superb retromobile The Manta A looks so much nicer than the Manta B IMHO ... Look forward to seeing more pics soon!

Tom

I was shown this by a mate in Germany whilst discussing Mantas. It's a clip from a german film, 'Manta Manta':

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yznp_vWoKGQ

It's not really dialogue driven, so it's not a problem that it's in German. A rough translation:

The girl says 'I'm too hot'

At the end, the pursuer asks 'hey, have you guys seen a blue manta'
'No, I've not seen a blue manta'

There's also some volvo 340 action at about 2min20.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yznp_vWoKGQ

Enjoy!

tommysb wrote:I was shown this by a mate in Germany whilst discussing Mantas. It's a clip from a german film, 'Manta Manta':

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yznp_vWoKGQ

It's not really dialogue driven, so it's not a problem that it's in German. A rough translation:

The girl says 'I'm too hot'

At the end, the pursuer asks 'hey, have you guys seen a blue manta'
'No, I've not seen a blue manta'

There's also some volvo 340 action at about 2min20.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yznp_vWoKGQ

Enjoy!

I watched the whole film whilst drunk.
Best manta film ever!

John's gonna need some new clothes, and a new haircut

Tom

trabitom99 wrote:John's gonna need some new clothes, and a new haircut

Tom

And a hairier chest. (probably)

Hi John.
Nice car. Good luck with it.
Cheers Mark.

Love it!

Awesome. I must confess I've been scoping out for my first (ever) non Volvo/DAF purchase recently.

cheers

James

Now what could fit in there is a lotus carlton engine...

filthyjohn wrote: weld up one small rust hole.

Looks like I underestimated the amount of rot by some margin. I got the screwdriver and went digging for peace of mind, but all I found was orangey-brown misery!

Check these holes out!
Above OSR spring:


Wheel arch/sill end:



Same viewed from inside:


Chop it out!