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According to registries there were only 8 (or 10) RHD factory built Mangustas. VIN 1288 (ealiest identified) thru 1302.

Odds are those were done / finished in Germany. The factory (rscorse) or Roland Jaekel (he purchased all left over inventory from the German distributor) may have individual car build sheets but even those are sketchy at best.

Are you at liberty to tell us the VIN?

8MA1284 and 8MA1300 are lost in Australia

Here is what I know about 8MA1284; formerly owned by Ken Messanger in South Australia till around 1995 (was Blue), then passed on to Neil Ashmead who did the Targas in it, he did the mods to the car and when the gearbox failed it went to a company to have work done, he then commited suicide and the car has remained in bits with the company since, so who actually owns it is in dispute. It is now Yellow and in pieces awaiting rebuilding, the gearbox is in a bad way and it has some body damage as well as many mods done to it for Targa work. (it ran a couple of times in Targa Tasmania and New Zealand and South Australia)

As far as RHD Mangustas the 2 best guys to contact in Australia would be Terry Griggs or Peter Bell.

***Addendum: 8MA1300 found in Australia , Purchased by JamesA in June '13 from OldTimerClassic Car