Thanks for buying the book.
I do not even want to see the modified mangusta. Your description of the modifications are bad enough.
Herb Grass, then a designer at Ford, bought Cassius Clay's Mangusta. He found his managers business card under the dash when he was having it painted. Three days after he bought it, about 1963, the steering got hard and a front ball joint broke. he was three blocks from home and called a flatbed, The driver decided not to tie it down as he was so close to the drop off point and on the first turn it slid off the truck.
A bad beginning. Herb later took it to Australia and, I think, India.
Grase those ball joints!!!