vettebuyer6369

2 of 'em!

The13Bats

Thanks for sharing, you know you want one,

Those both appear to be the bohannon versions of the silva kit,

vettebuyer6369

Guy with the black car has had it since 1984. Nice guy.

Yes, I do want one. I think I got the wife onboard today.

Is the bohannon version different from the Silva on the rear deck where the lines meet the rear spoiler? I'm not informed enough in the design differences.

Guy with the black car said it should have Cragars. I agreed and said I had 4 with me...

The13Bats

I had the good fortune to get to talk to john bohannon the other day over the phone, he made it known he is 75 but still in the shop working,
A very nice fellow,

Bohannon took silvas mako and restyled a few things to please his taste better and in his opinion look more like the gm show car,

More on that in a few but,

There are a couple design flaws i dont really like on the silva / motion makos,

If you Google up pictures you will see most makos have too much air over the front wheels, in the day they just dropped them into the weeds but ride and handling suffered,

Some makos have bodywork there to lower that opening so the car doesnt look like a 67 pro gasser taking off,

The rear louvers, many makos just have plexi glued into place from the inside under the louvers,
Making cleaning the outside of the window a real pita, my ocd would go nuts,

Some placed little thin strips of plexi or glass between each louver, i guess it works, but seems cantankerous,

I would have liked removable louvers over a fixed window, real glass,

Bohannon, didnt go into details but did say he reworked the rear deck a little,
Many of his kits have side windows or scoops on the rear sugar scoop,

Here is a picture i did a while back showing rears that started with mako sugar scoops,


Bohannon removed the somewhat pointless bird bath deep dips in the front clip and gave it tasteful style lines, he raised the scoop a little and i wish he didnt but he extended the hood so no wiper door. I like wiper doors,
His runs 73 to 79 side scoops,
He reworked the grill chin area,

Flares seem to be hit or miss, some makos have nice flowing flares others have ones that just seem to jut out, ugly to me,

In general I really like bohannon stuff better, and i own a silva / motion front clip, irony,

Bohannon also told me he is working on a special wide mako, 2 inches wider each side and would be pulling molds,

There were a few silva makos with short tails, they seemed too short to me, silva ran cowl and l88 scoops on some
and silva also did a few where the rear flare overlapped the door or door cuts into the rear well ( however one describes that ) , like the gm show car,

So combine all that with almost every build having custom builder tweaks and it gets pretty wild,

ntfday

Sure like the courtesy/side marker lights on the blue one.

The13Bats

A lot seemed to use 60s mopar markers,

One of the motion built makos had front mid year corvette signals molded in,

The13Bats

Here is one showing that air above the wheels that bugs me,

1bdvet

Thanks for sharing!

3JsVette

Thanks for the pictures.
I really like the black Mako.