(jut following the car), sold for $580k at Gooding (Monterey) this weekend. Brother was in the room, and noted the lack of filler over the spot welds (which like the 'ball peen hammer' markings on original paint Mangustas on the spot welds for the front fenders, says a lot about how perfect the fit/welding was at Ghia)...
Looks like it’s got Mangusta wheels on it!
...and a Mangusta chassis and seats and turn signal stalk and...yeah, its at the core, a Ghia 5000 Mangusta underneath. Its good to be King, but I guess being Count Volpi had its advantages...!
Wow... Backup lights... Fancy... 🤪
Love the exhaust pipes... Looks much more refined than the Ansa straight pipes
...goose, goose, Duck! I was too busy looking at the statues in the background, nothing screams "Not France" more than heroic marble statues...
And noticed those tips and thought "I'll bet thats loud"--at least, no apparent muffler behind the tips. But interesting, as restored now with something that looks like the constricted tips on the "Bordinath" car, but looking for a muffler in the pictures on the Gooding site (and none are in view), an old picture with, hmm, then round tips...!
And in the old picture, I'll admit, I'm looking at the shoes and not whatever the marble guy in the other picture is killing...
But to prove how old I am, just this crazy frustration to match the carpet there over the gas tank, next to the chassis/body supports that slipped into Mangustas around 8ma1050, underneath the Benelli fuel cap, on top of so many pieces that are like jazz music variation on a Mangusta...even if you'd swear, whoever put the car together again confused the front and rear grille (metal cloth).
wow, and in green !
I like the exhaust on the green one best...
Those are all the same car aren't they? I thought there was only the one ever built...
MH
Yeah, are there more of those things?
I know there are other Serenissmas, but different
