Comments on: VW Manta Montage on eBay

By: Doyle

Doyle — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 04:18:08 +0000

Yup… I have heard the same kind of story about the manta supplies….

What I can tell you about the Sterling glass is that I recently contacted sterlngsportscars and David Aliberti told me he had stock on both coasts and could ship asap… so thats a good sign on that end. -doyle

By: Bats

Bats — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 01:19:59 +0000

If you look for the Manta forum on Yahoo! track down david the owner his also owns Mantacarsdotcom, replace the “dot” with a “.”
David has been saying he is building the Mirage and I heard even the Montage, he offered all the glass and windscreens for these cars, at least a while back,
There are a few issues that may have been worked out since I last dropped by there, but seems he was building things in Canada and having problems getting stuff out or into the states or something like that,
Seems it is down right political or personal who he will deal with or sell to.
Or perhaps the company isnt really selling stuff as of yet, it’s hard to do this type thing as a business.

I owned one of the first Sterlings built, drove it from Vegas to Fl Cannonball run style in the 80’s, they are one of if not the best built of all the VW based kit cars and I never should have sold mine,
I didn’t believe it was much easier to get Sterling glass, I know the company is selling a new kit but I was under the impression windscreens were still hard to get, perhaps that too has changed since I last looked at them.

By: Doyle

Doyle — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 03:07:15 +0000

But nobody makes the windshields anymore right? That is the only reason I don’t bid on things like this. I am going the sterling route because the parts (esp glass) are more avail… unless things have changed from your sep2008 posting…

By: Shannon Larratt

Shannon Larratt — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 20:08:18 +0000

Grafting a windshield like this into a Laser 917 would make it an entirely new class of car, that’s for sure.

By: Bats

Bats — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 20:03:01 +0000

The biggest thing to me that took the Mirage and even the VW based Motage from being so much just another kit car and into being something more special or “real” as you put it is the custom windscreens, looking like all the 60’s racers used, just imagine how much better a Laser or Avenger could look if styled around a custom windscreen not a screen from a donor.