ever see one like this?

 

Interesting what is it? I know its a vette but whats with the modification? Copy cat Baldwin Motion T2?

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Jim

 

Are you going to buy it?

 

It's a day-[only] mobile!

 

 

No. And I'm kinda glad I haven't.

 

Dont know i am going to check it out today, ad says its a 1970, i guess you dont drive at night though!!

 

With all the leaves and dirt on it, looks like it's been sitting for a while. The frame & bird cage could be pretty bad.
Looks like the head lights are down in the grill area. You can see the corner of one.

 

I guess what the rest of it is will determine if it should stay 'un-found'.
Regards,
Alan

 

Never seen that one before. Got more pics?

 

looks like a motion or replica mako front end....please let me know if you arent going to buy it i would like to contact and see if i could just buy the hood. thnx

 

My 68 had the same flip front. Save it and build you a rod out of it.

 

Take a look at this link from Corvette Fever. http://www.corvettefever.com/feature...ray/index.html

 

 

 

The Blue car in this thread is a Mako kit, or Maco as they spelled it to keep Chevy lawyers away,
They had the headlights in the grill, yes, 50 state illegal, but you could drive it at night,

Hit rewind for a moment,
Around 65 Chevy released a show car called the Mako shark 2 to show what the all new 67 would look like, just like with no 83 model year, things went wrong and the mid year style was held over for 67 and the so called shark body vette ( the c3 68-82 ) a reworking of the showcar was released is 68


So anyone who loves the c3 would pretty much have to like the Mako 2,


Very soon after the release of the production 68 Corvette an enterprising and talented body man named John Silva decided to create a kit to look more like the original show car,





At the time custom vettes were more popular than stock and the Mako kit was a big hit
Silva built and sold many Macos & kits in the day the number has to be in the 100's and then many others jumped in pulling molds from Silva parts to produce their own Macos,

Motion never built parts or cars they farmed it out,
For a spell Silva teamed up with Motion supplying parts and or turn key Macos,
For reasons that will be left as personal business between the two of them they soon parted ways,
Motion offered their "own" Maco stuff that was always of far less quality than the Silva built parts.

The Yellow Moray,
The yellow car as you learned is the Motion Moray built with modified Mako shark body kit pieces, it has changed many times over the years,
The rear bumper on that yellow Moray is the Ecklers GT style,

It makes it sad to me that only the documented Motion built cars fetch the high dollars and people seem to not know or care who Silva was and overlook that he is the mind behind the design,

The real Moray can be had, last I looked for right at 6ooK

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Chevr...fCarsQ5fTrucks

If a person isn't that bucks up and would like to build a clone of the rare and uber dollar Moray
They are in luck as Keith is offering that front clip for a fraction of that price,

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Baldw...Q5fCarQ5fParts


Admitted the Silva Maco kit was no where near a clone of the GM show car but more of a cartoon caricature, I have seen some taken further and looking pretty sweet,


Almost in the same vein as the Corvette Summer car the Maco is either loved or hated with few finding a middle ground,
I have loved it since the first one I saw back in the mid 70's and plan to build my own version on a C3 Convertible,

Cheers
P.

 

Thanks for the info, really interesting!

 

The maco kit has a small cult following,

While I don't call it a kit car it is a rebody, many were super nice some were hack jobs and it seems the tu%ds always stand out in the punchbowl,

They were very popular and many were made in the day but so many were made on cars that were worth more restored and original the maco kits got removed and discarded,

The original kit had many flaws and I plan to rework the problems with mine, hopfully taking the car to the next level

 

My first comment is that they should have waited until '69 to get it right.

I've always thought the Mako II show car was just about the finished product perfected. IMHO it was "done" and all they did later was "tame" it for the masses. It has sharper lines, and higher peaks. To me it's what the C3 could have and should have been.

-W

PS: I'll note that the model posing with the car also has nice peaks... and points of her own, so way up high.... way up firm and high.....

 

The mako 2 had all kinds of unheard of innovations that just could not have fit into the cost budget to manufacture it as a production car,
Here are a few for example, the fixed seats and pedals that moved,
The stereo speakers in the headrest did make it into production 20 years later in the Fiero,
It had what might have mutated into third brakes lights, in panels that popped up and reflected the brakes lamps from up on the rear deck,
The targa top opened when you opened the door,
The clam shell front end found it's way into the production 84 corvette,
However,
I wish they had keep the production car for 68 more like the show car, at least in the body styling,

Also the Mako 2 rear window louvers were hated by the GM designer who was obsessed with making the "new" corvette have a euro flare and that is how it got the rather 4-R-E Dino looking rear cove window,