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Cars & Coffee 10-18-2008
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I agree on five times.
Like the Rambler, and the Corvair looks so clean in its finish too.
What is the red car that was built in OC once upon a time?
Like the Rambler, and the Corvair looks so clean in its finish too.
What is the red car that was built in OC once upon a time?
Banjo
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Whoa! can-am for the street!!! looks to be a Lola replica? My FIL would know. he raced them.
Nice TC.
Like the Corvair...
What's with the "Bouncebus" Is the oversized van next to it inflatable?
Like the white MGA with the white spoke wheels! that's classy.
But my favorite is "LBD".... Not a big fan of them, the new title just gave me a good chuckle.
I agree.. 5
Nice TC.
Like the Corvair...
What's with the "Bouncebus" Is the oversized van next to it inflatable?
Like the white MGA with the white spoke wheels! that's classy.
But my favorite is "LBD".... Not a big fan of them, the new title just gave me a good chuckle.
I agree.. 5
tony barnhill
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I always did like the AMX!
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I did NOT need to see that Giulietta! 
My current weakness. Had one way back when, and want another in the worst way!
My current weakness. Had one way back when, and want another in the worst way!
tony barnhill
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Ya'll talking about this car - there was a TV show in which one like it starred:bugimike said:
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Is it a Coyote ?
And that Corvair is pretty darn nice
And that Corvair is pretty darn nice
tony barnhill
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THAT's IT, Chris....the Coyote!! But, the one on the TV show wasn't a convertible.
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Hardcastle and McCormick.... (name of the TV show.. I used to watch it just for the car)
Quite a different looking car without the top. I used to have a 1/25 model of the TV car,
I was gonna agree with BugiMike. I bet the Coyote was a copy of the McClaren anyway.
It's really cool whatever it is!
Quite a different looking car without the top. I used to have a 1/25 model of the TV car,
I was gonna agree with BugiMike. I bet the Coyote was a copy of the McClaren anyway.
It's really cool whatever it is!
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Yup, five.
The Bouncebus is exactly that, a great, big Bugvan (macro-microbus?) bounce house. The guy rents it out for kids’ parties and hauls it around in a regular-size Bugvan.
The red car is a Manta Mirage. It looks an awful lot like a McLaren M8 CanAm car because that was the creator’s inspiration. The idea was sort of to build an M8 street car and sell it as a kit.
They also built a kit called the Manta Montage, inspired by the McLaren M6GT road car, which was McLaren’s street version of their M6 endurance racer.
I’d always heard the original <span style="font-style: italic">Hardcastle and McCormick</span> “Coyote” was built from a Manta Montage but there’s apparently room for debate on that. Just about every place you read about it says it was but the current Wikipedia entry says it wasn’t.
The Mirage was always built on a custom tube chassis. You could stuff most anything you wanted in it but as with all kit/custom cars the most common powerplant was/is a SB Chevy. (After all, they’re cheap as dirt and twice as common, although this guy’s obviously wasn’t cheap.)
The original Montages were Manta Cars’ obligatory Beetle based kits. Later, they built a custom tube chassis for it, which utilized a GM transverse V6 driveline.
Yeah, I love the AMX too.
I had to snag a couple pix of it because one of my best friends from college, this guy,
was an AMC pilot, drove a Javelin back then. He still has it too, plans to make it into a Mark Donahue replica.
We used to go down to the Manta Cars showroom and plan (well, dream) how <span style="font-style: italic">we</span>’d build one up. (Free entertainment for poor college students.)
PC.
The Bouncebus is exactly that, a great, big Bugvan (macro-microbus?) bounce house. The guy rents it out for kids’ parties and hauls it around in a regular-size Bugvan.
The red car is a Manta Mirage. It looks an awful lot like a McLaren M8 CanAm car because that was the creator’s inspiration. The idea was sort of to build an M8 street car and sell it as a kit.
They also built a kit called the Manta Montage, inspired by the McLaren M6GT road car, which was McLaren’s street version of their M6 endurance racer.
I’d always heard the original <span style="font-style: italic">Hardcastle and McCormick</span> “Coyote” was built from a Manta Montage but there’s apparently room for debate on that. Just about every place you read about it says it was but the current Wikipedia entry says it wasn’t.
The Mirage was always built on a custom tube chassis. You could stuff most anything you wanted in it but as with all kit/custom cars the most common powerplant was/is a SB Chevy. (After all, they’re cheap as dirt and twice as common, although this guy’s obviously wasn’t cheap.)
The original Montages were Manta Cars’ obligatory Beetle based kits. Later, they built a custom tube chassis for it, which utilized a GM transverse V6 driveline.
Yeah, I love the AMX too.
I had to snag a couple pix of it because one of my best friends from college, this guy,
was an AMC pilot, drove a Javelin back then. He still has it too, plans to make it into a Mark Donahue replica.
We used to go down to the Manta Cars showroom and plan (well, dream) how <span style="font-style: italic">we</span>’d build one up. (Free entertainment for poor college students.)
PC.
