Author Topic: Solved -PJ315- Dutton Mantis 1969 (Read 4064 times)

It's Tim Dutton's first car, the Mantis, built in 1969.
It was based on a Lotus 7 chassis and originally had a Coventry Climax engine, which was replaced before he sold it by a Sunbeam Alpine motor. Noboby want to buy any so he moved on to making a Lotus 7 style car; the rest, as they say, is history...

Your image seems to have got itself reversed. It should look like this, below, with another picture I found:

Arunas · « **Reply #43 on:** June 01, 2017, 01:37:22 AM »

Quote from: Carnut on May 31, 2017, 01:31:55 PM

It's Tim Dutton's first car, the Mantis, built in 1969.
It was based on a Lotus 7 chassis and originally had a Coventry Climax engine, which was replaced before he sold it by a Sunbeam Alpine motor. Noboby want to buy any so he moved on to making a Lotus 7 style car; the rest, as they say, is history...

Your image seems to have got itself reversed. It should look like this, below, with another picture I found:

Bingo! Well done, Carnut!

I intentionally reversed photo, I have to confess....

Djetset · « **Reply #44 on:** June 22, 2017, 12:27:59 PM »

Just to add a little more information here, Tim Dutton built this car specifically for his cousin Tony Addison, with the car being built in a garden shed behind the Buckingham Arms pub (which Dutton's parents ran) in Shoreham-on-Sea, Sussex. The pub still exists today, but the garden shed fell down years ago (rather like many of Mr Dutton's cars!)

el_monty · « **Reply #45 on:** March 23, 2018, 06:43:56 AM »

This is a repost of https://www.autopuzzles.com/forum/2010-38/solved-pj315-dutton-mantis-1969/

Wendax · « **Reply #46 on:** March 23, 2018, 07:22:16 AM »

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Author Topic: Solved -PJ315- Dutton Mantis 1969 (Read 4064 times)