sutty2006 Posted March 31, 2019 Share Posted March 31, 2019 Thought I’d started a thread about this but hadn’t. So here goes. I was looking for an engine for my red hatchback when Fordperv called the bat phone and told me about a car for sale in some arsehole end of stoke in a garden. I’ve lost a lot of early photos but we went over with my Mondeo, an A frame and a couple of spare wheels. Prized £80 out of my wallet and pulled it out of the guys garden. Or was it £60? I can’t remember. But it only needed 1 tyre swapping. The 1600 engine and 4 spd box was missing, haha, ironic, so it was hooked up and hauled away. I’ve had it since 2008. Started welding it myself in 2009 then came into some money and payed someone to finish it off.... well the main stuff. New rear panel, inner and outer sills, front nose, battery try, rear lower quarters, front foot wells plus other bits n bobs. Then it sat it in my unit for ever. Over the last ten years I’ve been collecting parts ready to rebuild it and I recon I’ve got 90% of bits to finish, just need time to do it. This first pic is of it in the shed where some guys did the welding. Then it came home back to my unit, where it still is. WHY SO SIDEWAYS? Bloody uploads them right then flips them over! Grrr. More incoming. scdan4, Scruffy Bodger, Sigmund Fraud and 16 others 19 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sutty2006 Posted March 31, 2019 Author Share Posted March 31, 2019 Another sideways photo of some of the welding to chassis Burnside, scdan4 and Joey spud 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sutty2006 Posted March 31, 2019 Author Share Posted March 31, 2019 So. Skip forward a few years and now it’s tax exempt I want to get it on the road so I can take the hatch off and restore that. I wanted to paint the engine bay, then fit the front axle, engine, wiring loom etc in that order. First coat reacted. Sanded down, retry, reacted again. Sanded it back to bear metal almost then painted a third time. Not so bad this time. And some laquer I’m happy with it for now. So everything that isn’t seen is going chassis black. Joey spud, Burnside, spike60 and 13 others 16 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sutty2006 Posted March 31, 2019 Author Share Posted March 31, 2019 Front axle is at home being rebuilt. Sudsprint, Uncle Jimmy, Burnside and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spottedlaurel Posted March 31, 2019 Share Posted March 31, 2019 Looking forward to seeing this progress - I like the early B very much, almost as much as the A. They look good and drive nicely. Sudsprint 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
holbeck Posted March 31, 2019 Share Posted March 31, 2019 Love it. I hooned around in a blue one of these back when it was acceptable to have a highlighted mullet. Burnside 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Longbridge Posted March 31, 2019 Share Posted March 31, 2019 Lovely. Munter B’s are definitely from the era of pretty Vauxhalls. Good man for sticking with it, too. Looking forward to seeing the finished paint job! Love it. I hooned around in a blue one of these back when it was acceptable to have a highlighted mullet.No. Despite what your friends may have told you, it was never acceptable. Even Pat had to kid himself. Burnside, holbeck and mat_the_cat 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sutty2006 Posted March 31, 2019 Author Share Posted March 31, 2019 A side angle shot hopefully not flipped 90 by the forum Once the paint was dry, I fitted a bonnet catch given to me by a club member that had been powder coated, and the new bonnet cable I bought a few months before Xmas as the old one snapped, no surprise there. Temporary bonnet fitted (old one off the hatc). For now. It’s buggered so I’ll need a replacement anyway. But it all works which is great. It’s not been on the road since 1990. With 70k up it. No history or paperwork, only a logbook. MRM 22P will hit the tarmac again. Maybe not this year, but hopefully soon. Original engine would have been a 1.6 cam in head, I’ve got a 2.0 sat waiting for rebuild and 1.6 engines are fairly hard to come by as they are usually chucked away . So that’s where I’ll go regards engine. dome, scdan4, Braddon81 and 8 others 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bren Posted March 31, 2019 Share Posted March 31, 2019 70's vauxhalls are ace. Somebody on here please buy a royale saloon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dome Posted March 31, 2019 Share Posted March 31, 2019 Ooft I have a very, very unhealthy love for Mantas. The Locost will hopefully be replaced by one. Carry on, and don't mind me. I'll be the one in the corner frothing mildly Sudsprint 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sudsprint Posted March 31, 2019 Share Posted March 31, 2019 Lovely. Just lovely. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bangernomics Posted March 31, 2019 Share Posted March 31, 2019 I have access to very many spares if you need anything weird just shout. BiL will have about 20 cars worth in a week or two Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matty Posted March 31, 2019 Share Posted March 31, 2019 Oohh loved my GTE. Lovely revvy engine and just good clean fun Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tadhg Tiogar Posted March 31, 2019 Share Posted March 31, 2019 ....a car for sale in some arsehole end of stoke in a garden. ...Stoke seems to have all sorts of interesting oul shite hidden away in it. Two of my cars came from Stoke. Maybe all the engineers live there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wuvvum Posted March 31, 2019 Share Posted March 31, 2019 Every day's a school day - never knew the Manta B came with a 1.6, always thought the 1.8 was the smallest. You say CIH so presumably a completely different unit to the 1.6 in the Mk1 Cav? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sutty2006 Posted April 1, 2019 Author Share Posted April 1, 2019 Every day's a school day - never knew the Manta B came with a 1.6, always thought the 1.8 was the smallest. You say CIH so presumably a completely different unit to the 1.6 in the Mk1 Cav?Smallest available engine in the B in later years was a 1.3 ohv engine but don’t see them over here. I know of 1, ex Belgium car. The 1.6 in the MK1 cav is the same cam in head engine. The 1.3,1.8 are both ohv engines. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir Snipes Posted April 1, 2019 Share Posted April 1, 2019 Smallest available engine in the B in later years was a 1.3 ohv engine but don’t see them over here. I know of 1, ex Belgium car. The 1.6 in the MK1 cav is the same cam in head engine. The 1.3,1.8 are both ohv engines.Not to be confused with the 1.8 OHC they fitted to later Mantas! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sutty2006 Posted April 1, 2019 Author Share Posted April 1, 2019 Not to be confused with the 1.8 OHC they fitted to later Mantas!The 1.8 they fitted to manta’s never changed. From the early to late ones. Same engine basics to the mk2 cavalier etc etc bangernomics 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir Snipes Posted April 1, 2019 Share Posted April 1, 2019 But you said 1.8 ohv? Or was that a typo? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
holbeck Posted April 1, 2019 Share Posted April 1, 2019 Mine was a 1.9 CIH (just to confuse things). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sutty2006 Posted April 1, 2019 Author Share Posted April 1, 2019 But you said 1.8 ohv? Or was that a typo?Apologies, yes meant to be ohc (over head cam) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle Jimmy Posted April 1, 2019 Share Posted April 1, 2019 This is look you need to rock if you're a Mantaman. holbeck, Sir Snipes, Kringle and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir Snipes Posted April 1, 2019 Share Posted April 1, 2019 Apologies, yes meant to be ohc (over head cam)Ah I see. I'm not so familiar with Manta As/early Bs! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wuvvum Posted April 1, 2019 Share Posted April 1, 2019 A Manta B 1.8S is the only car I've ever crashed. Lost the back end coming off a greasy roundabout - probably didn't help that I was trying to turn up the demister at the time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sutty2006 Posted April 1, 2019 Author Share Posted April 1, 2019 This is look you need to rock if you're a Mantaman.Why do I wish I could grow hair like that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andy18s Posted April 1, 2019 Share Posted April 1, 2019 Loved my Mantas,hence the 18s on my username...Lost the love after my last got stolen and then recovered a year later,just wasn't the same ....Actively looking for 1 over here now thoughFound a few Asconas but the Mantas seemed to have dried up Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sutty2006 Posted April 1, 2019 Author Share Posted April 1, 2019 Loved my Mantas,hence the 18s on my username...Lost the love after my last got stolen and then recovered a year later,just wasn't the same ....Actively looking for 1 over here now thoughFound a few Asconas but the Mantas seemed to have dried upI remember when that got nicked, didn’t you find it in a scrap yard? Where are you living now? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tooSavvy Posted April 1, 2019 Share Posted April 1, 2019 This is look you need to rock if you're a Mantaman...... Sleeping with the Enemy ..... Got the eyes 100% looking! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joey spud Posted April 1, 2019 Share Posted April 1, 2019 Here is my old Manta B that i owned in the mid 90's.MOY 136P was a 1900 auto in pastel de turquoise and was originally owned from new by What Car magazine and was a long term staff car that regularly featured in the mags pages.The previous owner to me had fitted a 3 litre essex and auto box to her that necessitated a Capri bonnet bulge grafting into the Manta hood to allow it to clear the carb and k+n air filter.I ended up selling the heavy breathing Essex to a banger racer and broke a 2 litre Cavalier for its engine and 4 speed box to return it back to standard.I wish i still had it today. JeeExEll, mat_the_cat, danthecapriman and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joey spud Posted April 1, 2019 Share Posted April 1, 2019 Sorry for the pants images but i owned these GTE's (one manual,one auto) at the same time around 2002,back then they were peanuts to buy.KLA the manual one was a great car,again should of kept it but i sold them both to buy this one owner Datsun 120a coupe. mat_the_cat, sutty2006, Dirk Diggler and 4 others 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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