Pics from the town of Man car show.
I didn’t trust it to actually drive the 4 miles to the show seeing how it has only been running about 20 minutes total. It was a good thing I put it on my jeep and towed it there. I drove it on the trailer fine and backing off the trailer it made it another 30 ft and died. I haven’t looked at what is wrong with it to see what killed it but from looking around the engine while it was sitting at the show I know the distributor mechanical advance is stuck and the carb is leaking and half working, it needs rebuilt bad. The car show was ok it was kind of funny watching people look at the car as they walked by from the front then they noticed the engine and you could just see the strange look on their face as they tried to figure out if that was a real engine stuck in the back of that little car 🙂
The interior actually doesn’t look that good yet, the seats aren’t bolted down and the carpet isn’t glued down it is all just duct tape and zip ties holding it together.
This seems to have been quite a project. Interested in knowing about availability of Mantas, originals vs kit cars, your experience with putting the big block engine in the car and which transaxle handles the increased power best without problems.
very good project ,lot of work you did. i like your frame ,not an easy task .nice site .thank’s