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Puzzle 12 from Pieter SOLVED Marcos Mantis XP
« on: April 18, 2007, 06:38:43 AM »
This is prolly too easy for the pro's, but Graywolf has given the rookies  enough to keep them busy.
What is it?
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Re: Puzzle 12 from Pieter
« Reply #1 on: April 18, 2007, 09:34:17 AM »
Sorry, I kind of got carried away and nearly blew my whole wad!
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Re: Puzzle 12 from Pieter
« Reply #2 on: April 23, 2007, 03:37:47 AM »
I thought it was going to be solved within hours...
Here's another view:
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Re: Puzzle 12 from Pieter
« Reply #3 on: April 23, 2007, 10:17:05 PM »
Marcos Mantis, the very first car that had that name. Some call it Marcos XP, but it is the same car. This mid-engined Marcos was built to compete at Le Mans in 1968, but the car was probably demolished before it arrived, it never showed up. It had a 3 liter Repco V8 engine and a pressed plywood monocoque construction.
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Re: Puzzle 12 from Pieter
« Reply #4 on: April 24, 2007, 02:16:51 AM »
I found a website with a little info on this car.  It seems that the only time it ever raced was at Spa, in the 1968 1000km event.  It still exists and is in the U.S.

The link: www.1600gt.freeserve.co.uk/Main%20.Juniors.htm

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Re: Puzzle 12 from Pieter
« Reply #5 on: April 24, 2007, 03:49:06 AM »
Correct. Marcos Mantis XP. Even though the number plate on the car now reads 'Manta', it is a Mantis (the one is a fish, the other an insect). There were production Marcos Mantis' which were very different cars. It raced the once at Spa and it seems it now is in the US.

http://mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/marcosmantis/index.html


(Could not get into Tifosi's link)
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Re: Puzzle 12 from Pieter SOLVED Marcos Mantis XP
« Reply #6 on: April 24, 2007, 07:41:53 AM »
Got Tifosi's link to work - it's the full stop in front of the J that's the problem.

http://www.1600gt.freeserve.co.uk/Main%20Juniors.htm
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Re: Puzzle 12 from Pieter SOLVED Marcos Mantis XP
« Reply #7 on: April 24, 2007, 12:40:36 PM »
Quote from: pieter on April 24, 2007, 07:41:53 AM
Got Tifosi's link to work - it's the full stop in front of the J that's the problem.

http://www.1600gt.freeserve.co.uk/Main%20Juniors.htm
I must've copied it wrong...late-night and bleary-eyed...sorry.  I thought it was interesting that Corgi made so many models of the car.


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Re: Puzzle 12 from Pieter SOLVED Marcos Mantis XP
« Reply #8 on: April 24, 2007, 01:31:56 PM »
I was trying to remember where I saw this car. I knew it wasn't the web, but a book, magazine... where?

My neighbor across the street owned one. Corgi number 312.
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Re: Puzzle 12 from Pieter SOLVED Marcos Mantis XP
« Reply #9 on: May 02, 2007, 02:32:25 AM »
In the 1980's & early 1990's, I collected slot cars from the 1960's and found a clear vac-formed body of this strange car...

You talk about something hard to identify in the pre-internet days!!! - I think it took me several weeks to find anyone who could identify it and several more to find any pictures of it...  Thank God for the Internet!
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