Has got these little raised nodules on the back as well, just to help you, The front wheel runs all the way around just to hold it right here and these recaro seats with the opal blitz logo repeated on them actually holds you pretty well particularly around the sides here its a very narrow sort of chair. So in here, what marks it out as a 400, well we've got the opal sports steering wheel here, which is a lovely size. Steering, and then juxtaposed against these really quite light, flimsy plastics. It runs, really quite tough mechanical feel of a car. In here you instantly got that feeling of, well, intimacy that you get with older cars. We're gonna put a few more miles on her today. It looked like it had come out of the factory like that. This conversion was done by a proper Voxel dealership, and it was inspected in 1986, so in period, and they said it was unrecognizable as being anything after market. They didn't go rallying all around the rest of the world.
OPEL MANTA 400 DRIVERS
It was imported into Ireland by Tony who was the director of motor sports for Opel at the time, and converted because lots of righty cars in Ireland and the UK were Right hand drivers based left hand drive, cuz they stayed in Ireland. So distinctive on this car as well, but the big thing that makes this car unique is that it's right-hand drive. The wheels, five spoke five stunts versions by Ronen the polygraph I should have said is by showing you can see that stamped on the inside of the three piece right away, which is obviously. This has the original Steel bonnet unmolested under the bonnet we've got the 2.40 straight 4 engine naturally aspirated but he had about 144 brake horsepower just over 5000 RPM.įuel injection system hasn't been converted to carbs, which is what most people didn't stretch weight because that's how you got up to the sort of more near the 277 brake horsepower, that the rally cars. So that's why The bonnet frequently, you have the rally intake here because they want to make it more like the rally car. Group B you had to build 400 to satisfy the FIA.īy the time this came along it was only 200. Well the Skoda that came before when that was being humiliated.
Well, this is one of just 245 road cars built to satisfy those FIA Group B Homologation regulations.Īnd as if being one of just 245 cars wasn't enough, this car is particularly special.įor a start, it looks as you would expect an Opel Manta 400 to look, or at least how I think they should look.īecause this has the wide arched body kit is fantastic.īox arches here which amazingly only 60 cars of the original runner 245 came out of the factory with.Īlso this is just one of 12 to be painted an silver all the rest were white.ĭoors 400, incidentally why is it called the Open month of 400. The hundreds hit for high speed and famous. Nonetheless the real drive Opel still finds success in European stages. was originally destined for the world stage, by the time it was ready the group B era had moved on with a four wheel drive and turbo charged power of cars on the Audi quatrain. The opening Manta 400s of Jimmy McRae and Russel Brooks was sideways and spectacular. In the mid-1980s, two people and one car captivated fans at the British Rally Championship.
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