Manta Ray kit in Sweden
 

I found these pics in a Swedish magazine from the mid seventies. I believe someone bought parts, possibly from Motion, and built his own Manta Ray. The sidevents in the front fenders are not typically Motion. Any thoughts ?

I´m just waiting for the first Motion or Baldwin-Motion car to be found in Sweden, since so many New York hi-perf cars were sent here, but I guess I´ll have to wait a little longer.

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Front

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Part of right side.

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Inside.

They say it´s a -69.

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Another Motion-related Corvette. This one is said to have a Motion-built engine.

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Inside.

They say it´s a -69.

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That interior doesn't look like any '69 'Vette I've ever seen.

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In the seventies Motion had a dealer in Sweden, Musclecars in Malmö. I have never heard if they sold any cars or parts.

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I wonder if the photo of another cars interior was accidently included in that article. Looks almost like an early Chevelle dash.

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This is a picture of a dash from a Vega.

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------Anders,,,The side scoops are 67 corvette style. They may have been right out of a 67 fender and been grafted into the fender pictured. I have seen it done before.....Bill S

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Yes I guess they accidently used the wrong picture.

Here is a Mako Shark Corvette in 1983 built from a Motion kit. They ordered it in 1978 and didn´t get it until 1½ year later. It fit terrible so he hade to make a lot of small changes. The author believed there were two more in Sweden and two in Norway, built before this one.

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Here is another Mako-kit in 1983 owned by mr Dragracing-the-Corvette, Jan "Juan" Johansson. He used to dragrace his Corvette with a L-88, but also had a ZL-1 motor.

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And here is another one in Norrköping in 1983 with the headlight conversion. There were no pictures of the rear.

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And here is another one in Norrköping in 1983 with the headlight conversion. There were no pictures of the rear.

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Could this one and the one from the first posting be the same car? They both appear to have '67 side gills, Maco rear clips and the exposed headlights.

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Dave I was going to say no because of the different hood and I didn´t think the rear was the same, but you are right. The licencenumber is the same !