Me new car

[Lopez]

Been looking for either a Manta, Chevette or Viva since Christmas with little joy. Everything was either overpriced barn finds, overpriced rot boxes, or cheap rot boxes. Not many genuine tidy road cars.

Narrowed down my choices, decided the Viva was no good as it's a saloon and we need a hatch really for practical reasons, and as all the good Chevette's were too much money I plumped for a Manta

Here she is. It's a 1.8 (which allows easy swap of the 2.0 16v redtop engine, if you put the redtop in a 2.0 8v Manta lots of bits need swapping) GT/E Exclusive.
It got repainted a couple of years ago but not fantastically well so the paint is a quite dull.

But it has no rust, no rot, it's never been welded - not even the inner rear edge of the sills or chassis rails which is miraculous on one of these!

Anyway, here's a couple of quick pics