I also, have put a $6,000 deposit on a Porsche 996 Twin Turbo that I was going to move the body off of the VW chassis on to the Porsche – The Porsche Is also for sale, but for an additional $6,000 and then the NEW owner of this vehicle can take over the Porsche payments….BUT NOT REQUIRED FOR ME TO SELL THE MANTA. The square headlight photo, was how I got it, I had the LeMans style fiberglass headlight wells put in, and I also own the lens covers ($350) as well as the fiberglass front air scoop ($800) I still have the rear window(bubble style) and will include that in the sale, If the new owner wants it. This was a project car for me, but my fiberglass guy moved away, It is VERY hard to find someone good who knows fiberglass….Therefore I am abandoning this project. VIN – DR137616MO This a low production high end exotic that did not use a standardized VIN This vehicle is the basis for the 80’s T.V. Nothing but a bunch of tire kickers wasting my time…Here is the original ad, and yes it’s still for sale… I’m Mark, the owner of this car….The eBay auction expired. Our impression is the price is rather high for an oddball like this, but perhaps some fans of the original television show still exist who might need this car in their lives. Frankly, I can’t imagine even a trashed 996 Turbo wouldn’t be worth intact than hacked up for its chassis. Here’s where it gets even more complicated: you can buy the Coyote X by itself, or you can buy the kit car and take over payments on the Porsche if you’re intrigued by the seller’s swap plans. All that said, the seller had some unusual plans make the Coyote X a formidable performer that could live up to its swoopy body lines: he put a down payment on a Porsche 996 Turbo to swap the kit car onto the Porsche chassis.
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The car in the television series supposedly used a Porsche 914 mill for motivation, but if you listen to any number of YouTube clips, you’d swear it had a blown V8 under the rear engine cover.
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However, all it takes is watching five minutes of highlights from the show’s stunt drivers to realize this is like any other kit car: parts flying off, axles collapsing, and plenty of fake engine noises dubbed in to create the illusion of power. The cockpit looks slightly better than some of the other fiberglass creations of the era, and the trimmings appear a bit higher grade. This, like many other kit cars, is based on a VW chassis. Find it here on eBay in Boca Raton with an $18,000 Buy-It-Now. The seller claims he’s lost interest in the project due to his preferred fiberglass shop shutting down, and based on the description of a Porsche 911 Turbo donor car he’s purchased, it sounds like there were big plans for this kit car oddity.
More commonly known as the “Coyote X”, this Manta Montage kit car rose to fame in the 1980s ABC television show, Hardcastle and McCormick.
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