Personally, I prefer the hatch. I think the lines are a bit neater when viewed from the side, not that it influenced our choice at the time. The car was offered to us, with roll cage already fitted at the right price. Couldn't even fold the back seats down with the cage in the way, but it was the only rally car on the events with a tow bar on it which was very useful at times...superchargedfool wrote:mantas are a cool old car, no doubt.
The hatches are frowned upon a bit though.
Thing is the hatches are becoming rare now as many have been scrapped to give bits up for savable coupes.
I have been told that their are less than 100 manta gte's road legal and that more are coupes than hatches. The hatch could become rare enough to become valuable as a rarity.
Actually, we must have bucked the trend as we broke a coupe for spares to keep the hatch on the road! Didn't realise they were so rare these days, but I suppsoe a lot of 80's stuff has disapeared over the last few years... Our Manta didn't survive. it was the victim of a rough unsurfaced road on an event which cracked the exaust manifold and split a fuel pipe. The smell of leaking petrol was very strong when we arrived at the next control moments before it was ignited under the tank. The fire extinguisher was in the boot, so not much chance really.
Still got the spot lights and a lot of spares though!
