~8ma800 Mangusta at Beverly Hills car club

...they probably dropped their price after 8ma750 sold last week--a running driving car that included a passenger door, for $185k....I don't know what the   1965 De Tomaso Sport 5000 Spyder by Fantuzzi | Monterey | RM Sotheby's (rmsothebys.com) bid up to---but at least, still seems the high water mark for a "standard" Goose is $400k (8ma716, the 'ground truth' car)...excepting the Spider and probably that one with a Chevy engine, it seems that around $200k can really buy a good driver still.

(and ps, though I'm glad our car was bought a long, long time ago, all in all a beat up Alfa spider convertible would still be a blast to drive...until the last 2 decades, the Mangusta was barely a collectors car!)

Apparently the car was spotted on a flat bed earlier in the week... headed for Sin City!  C4 still not motivating the car forward or rearward. Exhaust manifolds still on backwards.  Half of floor still falling out.....half still repaired.  Still some shade of green paint!  Probably very nice looking in it's day!

Would the real #800 please stand up?!

I have a note in my files that Richard Spratling owned #800 in this pic.  What I found in a search came up with this "2009 RS Design Corsa Spyder" sez it has a tube chassis, and a ZF 5 speed with CV joints.....nothing else about anything deTomaso....which matched this picture!

I don't really believe that this car was built out of an old Mangusta......unless they reused a couple of metric bolts here and there and an old -1 ZF with new CV's adapted to it???

I don't know if Spratling owned a Goose...or owns.....or how this picture came to be assigned to #800 in my files.   Could be a WILD GOOSE CHASE!!!

Can anyone elaborate on this car???

Cheers!
Steve

…someone sent me a picture this week of ‘a migrating goose…’ in Venture county… I have to admit, I didn’t see much on 8ma800 that looked like a Mangusta (!) Whatever the Sn for this car, I have to admit it looks better on the trailer…Lee

it has always been my understanding that the Richard Spratling custom car only contained a VIN stamping removed from a Mangusta. 🤷🤷

Larry

Hey Steve,

You sent me down a rabbit hole just now. I was familiar a bit with the car but I never questioned the story... Now that you mention it there's not much goose there at all. On the tube frame, you can see a faint 7 stamped underneath the 8.

Would be interesting to see how the car is registered with the DMV. I have a trick for this but it only works on California vehicles subject to smog. (https://www.bar.ca.gov/inspection)

scifi,

A 2009 would be expected to require smog....but I suspect that it is titled as a limited construction kit car...or such...unless of course the Goose tag was borrowed from the Green car, along with it's ZF and now WE HAVE TWO 8MA800 cars out there!!!!
I thought this only happened in Europe...... 

We'll see!

Steve

Again, because of the VIN tag, it’s my understanding this car is actually registered as a Mangusta. Not a kit car, or a special vehicle construction VIN.

Larry

Mangust Steve has an excellent point- BOTH cars cannot be 8MA800.

Larry I believe is correct about the registration.

Below is a snip of the VIN from the RS Corsa Spider. Sadly I can't find a photo of the green monster's VIN.

On my list of TODOs is to look up 8MA700 in the ProvaMo registry but it's having one of its signature offline moments this afternoon.

Steve, its likely that any confusion on this being 8ma800 started with me by the title--but when you found the headlight lever cable in the picture, I agreed its probably in the 8ma900 range: "But a guess for vin number is between 8ma900 and 8ma952; the switches went from down to up at 8ma956, the 2 headlight cars started at (as I can tell) 8ma902. Provamo recognizes 6 other cars in that range, so this could be any of the other ~19 or so."  The car has clearly had a lot of reconstruction already, inner fenderwells on the front and all the fan structure is fully customized.

For some reason, I'd thought this car was shipped to eastern Europe for restoration--a little after the sale, a lime green car only photographed from the left rear angle was on FB...Let me find that somehow....Lee

8MA870 could it be ?

Steve, you could just ask him. He's been a member of Nor-Cal since the '90s. Still listed in the Nor-Cal registration list as of 2023, in a NW San Francisco neighborhood

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Apparently the car was spotted on a flat bed earlier in the week... headed for Sin City!  C4 still not motivating the car forward or rearward. Exhaust manifolds still on backwards.  Half of floor still falling out.....half still repaired.  Still some shade of green paint!  Probably very nice looking in it's day!



Would the real #800 please stand up?!

I have a note in my files that Richard Spratling owned #800 in this pic.  What I found in a search came up with this "2009 RS Design Corsa Spyder" sez it has a tube chassis, and a ZF 5 speed with CV joints.....nothing else about anything deTomaso....which matched this picture!

I don't really believe that this car was built out of an old Mangusta......unless they reused a couple of metric bolts here and there and an old -1 ZF with new CV's adapted to it???

I don't know if Spratling owned a Goose...or owns.....or how this picture came to be assigned to #800 in my files.   Could be a WILD GOOSE CHASE!!!

Can anyone elaborate on this car???

Cheers!
Steve
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...my quick reference guide at dating a Goose...and why I'd locate this one to the 8ma902 to 8ma956 window (and why I'll wait for someone to scream no, but after looking at Provamo I'll proclaim this one is 8ma946.