another goose at BHCC

Soooo many things weird with this car. Some "rodder" tried to make impovements. Good point is floors look decent and strait.

why is the green 4 headlight Mangusta still not sold ?

for me it's a good start for a restauration.

Simon

Simon, I'm with you--I think the green one for sale is very attractive...even, to not restore in any big way, just to drive (as the last owner did for 40 years). Its funny, for those of us who are polishing every bolt on our own cars (maybe because we had to...yeah...) whether the car is at 50 years old and at 75% of what it should be is not really different than a car like this at 50 years old and 60% of what it should be--meaning, they both need new leather, every piece of rubber and heim joint booties and shocks and replating everything and unsticking brakes and always a "who knows what" with the engine/trans...Both the red car and the green car don't show signs of previous big damage (though I'd cross my fingers tighter on the red car...).

But the green car looks like a good score on the 'frustration index,' both cars can be restored by the green car is just old, the red car probably has more stories to tell...

I've never seen the twin gas tanks before...  are there others out there?

MH

@mkeh posted:

I've never seen the twin gas tanks before...  are there others out there?

MH

I've not heard of this before. One is plenty big. Maybe this guy was going on the Cannonball Run! Heh.

@leea posted:

Simon, I'm with you--I think the green one for sale is very attractive...even, to not restore in any big way, just to drive (as the last owner did for 40 years). Its funny, for those of us who are polishing every bolt on our own cars (maybe because we had to...yeah...) whether the car is at 50 years old and at 75% of what it should be is not really different than a car like this at 50 years old and 60% of what it should be--meaning, they both need new leather, every piece of rubber and heim joint booties and shocks and replating everything and unsticking brakes and always a "who knows what" with the engine/trans...Both the red car and the green car don't show signs of previous big damage (though I'd cross my fingers tighter on the red car...).

But the green car looks like a good score on the 'frustration index,' both cars can be restored by the green car is just old, the red car probably has more stories to tell...

I'm surprised the green one hasn't sold. But also, I have a feeling there is some rust in the bottom of the doors, and the color is off-putting to some.

@scifi posted:

I've not heard of this before. One is plenty big. Maybe this guy was going on the Cannonball Run! Heh.

I wonder if they moved the fuse box...   Pulling the tank to check a fuse would be a pain... 

MH

M!ke, definitely a 'no' on the second tank, I joked about this being a rare dealer option (which seems to be limited to the Ferrero steering wheel without leather, that is on 100% of the Mangustas around the loop in Houston)...but it seems that the owner was more interested in weight balance or living out a canonball run fantasy than putting a bag of groceries there to the left...

But strange me, that piece of carpet over the left tank seems to be a real match for the type of carpet used, and the cut is so strange its almost as if it is a borrowed piece (it has the vague outline of the carpet used on the passenger side inner wheel well...

Strange how the chassis water tubes must have been omitted at some point!  But that's clearly a moot point if that extra tank is actually a remote radiator in disguise.

i dont think there are any half shafts in this car

Oh, or a rear sway bar or upper (ladder style, bridging the top of the rear shocks) cross member....I had noticed that the cross-member for the spare wasn't there, but missed the strange, huge gap between the bell housing and the diff-supporting cross...Nate, I didn't see the missing water tubes. So the engine seems to have either been coming or going...

..and the accessory drive pulley on the jackshaft is strange--esp, either all 3 sheaves should be the same diameter, or the final one (smog pump) is bigger. But here, it looks reversed (I suppose, just flipped...causing a misalignment with the AC compressor...)