Does anyone know anything about a 74 Motion Can Am Spyder Corvette?

[bowtie3168]

Rayburn Pennington is the man to speak to. I met Ray at the reunion this past summer and he knows alot about Motion Vettes. He owns the 1973 Manta Ray Vette.If you e-mail me a way for him to contact you I will pass it on to him (he does not go on the computer). I found the photo article (that Joe C. posted) to be very interesting. Here is the reason why: I was looking at Vette this summer that was racing (in a street class) at Raceway Park (NJ) on "Vette Magazine Day"and it had the same hatch and a wide body kit. I asked the owner what the history was on the car and he told me that the hatches were made only for Corvettes (I wondered if they had been taken off of a Monza Spyder but they had not). I will try to get a photo (if one was taken) to post to compare.

Andrew

[Fhakya]

Does it look anything like this?
http://www.sharkwerkes.com/sharktank...o/motions.html
This one has been for sale for over a year.


[Edited by Fhakya (12-19-2000 at 02:32 AM).]

[Edited by Fhakya (12-19-2000 at 02:36 AM).]

[COPO]

clickable

http://www.sharkwerkes.com/sharktank...o/motions.html

[JoeC]

Fhakya - thanks for the link. That is a good Corvette web site. I was looking through it and found another interesting Corvette on there. It's a 1968 with a prototype ZL1 stripe done at the factory. Here is the link.

http://www.sharkwerkes.com/sharktank...o/68proto.html

[bbdon]

I found a color pic, I thought I might as well post that too. This is not the same car as the other one, and the spider is not on the hood of this one.
Don.


[Edited by bbdon (12-22-2000 at 07:35 PM).]

[mahoy78spyder]

<<snip>>I asked the owner what the history was on the car and he told me that the hatches were made only for Corvettes (I wondered if they had been taken off of a Monza Spyder but they had not). I will try to get a photo (if one was taken) to post to compare.<<end>>

To bowtie3168: You're half right about the back hatch coming from a Monza Spyder. The gentleman you spoke to was correct in stating the hatch was made only for the Corvette, but the glass used in the hatch is indeed from a Chevy Monza 2+2 hatchback.

The fiberglass hatchback conversion was an offering by Ralph Eckler of the famed Eckler Industries out of Titusville, FL and could be purchased as an entire back half replacement piece, or as the econo hatchback kit that retained the stock rear bumper.

Interestingly enough, Eckler's also produced a "Monza" one-piece tilt front end, but in reality had nothing in common with the Chevy Monza except for the name and the recessed "Monza-like" quad rectangular headlights that replaced the stock hidden headlamp assembly.

Ken

[bowtie3168]

Ken,
Thank you for the reply. I knew that I was not imagining the fact that they looked alike.

Andrew