D120 TRN - 1986 Manta B GT/E
Modified
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Owner:
David Newton
I'm the
second owner of this car and I've had the car for about
12yrs. When I first bought the car the colour was Carmine
red, it was like new and had only covered 28k miles. I've
added bits and pieces to the car over a period of years
but it's only been the last three years that I've started
doing major alterations.
The car has
been resprayed Imperial Blue, the colour scheme came from
Ford specifically from the Escort Cosworth range. It 's
taken me the last 18 months to get it to the condition
you see now. I managed to get it on the road just before
Billing, and I've enjoyed driving it for about 5 months
and I've just taken it off the road again as its far from
being finished. I reckon so far I've spent in the region
of 6k and it's still far from being finished.
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At the moment
I'm tinkering with a 2.7 V6 Honda engine I've got my old
engine out I've tried the new engine in position it fits
just about, but this is just the first stage I'm still
not sure this is going to work! As this is a transverse
engine the gearbox from this engine is of no use so I'm
going to use my existing gearbox. The other major
modification I've done is to cut out the existing sunroof
which had rotted away as they do and replaced the roof
panel with a roof from a Ford Fiesta I took a profile of
off my roof went down the scrapyard and a Ford Fiesta Mk3
was the nearest match as it has a double curvature and
that matched in quite well.
I've had the
car lowered and uprated the suspension; it's also got
willood callipers. The wheels are currently 16" TSW
Stealth.
The interior
is still the standard grey, I'm not too happy with this,
so I'm looking to change the interior, I shall probably
change that to a blue theme.
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