Artist Matthew Harvey Posted June 1, 2015 Share Posted June 1, 2015 For sale is my late fathers 1987 Hatchback, he bought it in 1998, taxed it, drove it home put it in the garage and it's been in dry storage ever since. Over the years he gathered all of the bits to work on as a 'project' including a brand new n/s front wing + sill, 1lt matched paint, new front discs and full service kit. From memory he was hoping to put 45 Weber carbs on it. It is a typical Manta with the usual areas of rust. Currently has a good spark but wont start (injector issue maybe). Sensible offers of around £2000.00 and desperate for it to go to a good home. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evo3000 Posted June 1, 2015 Share Posted June 1, 2015 Rare colour nice original and complete looking,another good project car for someone potentially,if a deal can be struck. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Artist Matthew Harvey Posted June 1, 2015 Author Share Posted June 1, 2015 Like I said hasn't been touched since 1998 & I remember that my father drove it into it's current location 3 years ago. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Artist Matthew Harvey Posted June 4, 2015 Author Share Posted June 4, 2015 Sadly this car is likely to be scrapped in the next week or so due to lack of storage space. If you are interested please let me know ASAP. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
plumster Posted June 4, 2015 Share Posted June 4, 2015 Sadly this car is likely to be scrapped in the next week or so due to lack of storage space. If you are interested please let me know ASAP. Sounds like a bit of a jump from wanting offers around £2000 to being scrapped, don't know what scrap value is, maybe a couple of hundred. Why don't you post the minimum you will accept & just get shut of it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spiney_norman Posted June 4, 2015 Share Posted June 4, 2015 Scrap is right down at the moment, maybe £100 at a push. I'd happily beat that and give her a good home but I don't know how soon I'd be able to get to you. I'll have a word with my old man later and see what we can do if you'd rather it go cheap than scrap it! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Artist Matthew Harvey Posted June 4, 2015 Author Share Posted June 4, 2015 There has been no 'jump', simply time has run out due to the house where the car is stored has been sold and we have no other storage options for her. As I said, I don't think sensible offers of around the 2k mark is unreasonable and if someone can take her this weekend let's talk and we can keep her safe from destruction. I am in a position to deliver at buyers cost. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MANTAMAN Posted June 4, 2015 Share Posted June 4, 2015 i am not sure i understand where you are coming from with this sale. You say £2K is not unreasonable but if you don't get that your going to weigh it in at a scrap yard where you won't even get £100. Personally i think you are asking a lot too much money, sorry if this sounds harsh but i am looking from an objective, dispassionate point of view It is possible to buy a tidy Manta hatch that is the road for less than £2K, and there is the Key phrase 'on the road' For a Manta that is not road ready the price will drop to at most a quarter of this, but this would be for one that only needs re-commisioning, you have note that bodywork needs to be done, this will decrease the realistic value even further. I am always dissapointed by the value of Manta's, particulary hatchbacks which have an unwarrented stigma of being a 'lesser Manta', Manta value's lag behind the Capri and some other contempory cars, where from the view of diehard Manta fan i believe they should at least the equal in price or better, but no matter how hard i wish i am not going to change reality, people will not pay a lot money for a Manta, shame but true. As a measure of value earlier this year i sold a Manta that i had intensions of restoring but had to admit i would never get round to, this was more rusty than your Manta appears to be but it is the more desirable coupe and crucially it is one of the oldest Manta B known to survive making it very desirable, yet it sold for £400 If you do find someone willing to pay the asking price then congratulations, but i think the best out come that you can hope for is a sale in the low hundreds at best and the satisfying knowledge that your fathers Manta will live on. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big B i200 Posted June 4, 2015 Share Posted June 4, 2015 I am in no position to buy, but I am sure there are potentially people out there who are and I have to agree with Ians comments above, the options are Scrap value or something more than scrap value and the added factor that your late fathers Manta may see the road again. This post is in no way meant as an attack, I know sometimes these messages appear that way, it is merely an opinion. If you would prefer to scrap it then it is your car and your call. Good luck with however it goes and sorry your Dad never got to complete his plans. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spiney_norman Posted June 4, 2015 Share Posted June 4, 2015 There has been no 'jump', simply time has run out due to the house where the car is stored has been sold and we have no other storage options for her. As I said, I don't think sensible offers of around the 2k mark is unreasonable and if someone can take her this weekend let's talk and we can keep her safe from destruction. I am in a position to deliver at buyers cost. Please don't be offended, this is not an attack, but if this was mine I'd rather take a low offer and know it would live on than drag it to the scrapyard and get £75. I've got a trailer and may well be able to get up to you Wednesday or Thursday next week, and as I've said I'll happily beat the scrap value by a way, but £2k is a lot of money for a car that hasn't seen the road in over 15 years and doesn't run. For the purposes of comparison a silver GTE hatch sold on ebay recently with 12 months MOT and a recent respray, all on the road and ready to go for £1950. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evo3000 Posted June 4, 2015 Share Posted June 4, 2015 to be fair you can understand the seller asking 2k for it, when on the market at the moment you have some for sale at 8-9k. Which we all know are not going to sell for that kind of money,or if they do i will eat my hat aswell The only thing i know for sure is this car has to be saved 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
®evo03 Posted June 4, 2015 Share Posted June 4, 2015 Offer placed by pm 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Artist Matthew Harvey Posted June 6, 2015 Author Share Posted June 6, 2015 In no way do I feel there has been an attack on me/my 'scrap' comment, however the responses have been what I hoped from enthusiasts on an enthusiasts forum and this car should not be scrapped. I do however feel it's a shame that the majority have focused on the scrap value of this car rather than placing reasonable offers or putting me in contact with people who might be interested. This thread started out promising and if more people were in the same train of thought as Kapitan we may have got this car to safety before now. If we based all/any items valuation on the performance of Ebay we would all look to the lowest value or for a bargain and I understand that not everything reaches it's true potential on auction sites as this is is there nature. I thought that a starting point of £2k was a sensible place to start. Sorry to be defensive but if I had asked for 'offers of around £100' would any enthusiast have given the reverse comments that I've received so far? I naively thought that a sensible price would mean this car would stay on the road and not be broken down for parts but who's going to guarantee it? Commodore & Danny D114BCW, thank you for your PM's and your offers are currently being considered. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Abbott Posted June 6, 2015 Share Posted June 6, 2015 It's a hatch so you aren't going to be inundated for the car, they take longer to sell. It looks good in the pics.. Scrap it if you feel so inclined, that will push the value of hatches up as that means there is one less.. I doubt your Father would of wanted that.. Just lower your expectations, you don't have a gold mine I don't mean to offend 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
guysat Posted June 6, 2015 Share Posted June 6, 2015 Might be worth sticking advert on Opel Manta Facebook group as well 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danny D114BCW Posted June 7, 2015 Share Posted June 7, 2015 It would be put back on the road if I got it. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MANTAMAN Posted June 7, 2015 Share Posted June 7, 2015 I do however feel it's a shame that the majority have focused on the scrap value of this car. The reason this has occured is because people are responding to the post you made - Sadly this car is likely to be scrapped in the next week desperate for it to go to a good home. Yet despite being prepared to scrap the car which will only get you under £100 you are expecting sell it for £2000, this appears to be a contradiction. placing reasonable offers or putting me in contact with people who might be interested. As i have explained £2000 asking price is very unlikely to attract any interest, sadly a Manta Hatch that needs work to get it back on the road is perhaps at best worth a quarter of this, in a perfect world i would like to see the value of them much higher, but this is the reallity, potential buyers will see this asking price and presume that like most car sales expect the seller to drop the price a couple of hundred with negoiation. This still makes the asking much higher than people will pay, perhaps there is someone who will meet the asking price, in which case excellent, but please do not have a go at the people on this forum because we have not been able to find that one person. And yes i have mentioned this Manta for sale to few people i know and they have had the same re-action, "wouldn't pay that much for a hatch needs work" if i had found someone interested and willing to make an offer i would have made sure that the two of you made contact, after all i am a die-hard Manta fan and really would like to see this Manta back on the road again. If we based all/any items valuation on the performance of Ebay we would all look to the lowest value or for a bargain and I understand that not everything reaches it's true potential on auction sites as this is is there nature. I thought that a starting point of £2k was a sensible place to start. Sorry to be defensive but if I had asked for 'offers of around £100' would any enthusiast have given the reverse comments that I've received so far? I naively thought that a sensible price would mean this car would stay on the road and not be broken down for parts but who's going to guarantee it? I do appreciate that it can be difficult to put a value on a car when you have little to base your estimation on, so a starting point of £2000 could be viewed as a sensible place to start. But the comments made by myself and others are based on our knowledge of Manta's having being involved with them for very many years, At £2000 we can see that this Manta is very unlikely to sell and to achive the outcome you desire, make a sale and see the Manta saved, then a much lower asking price as a starting point will give you the greatest chance of success. As for the price garenteeing it wil stay on the road, well it will not if no one buys this Manta and it is scrapped, sadly selling any car, which will only happen if the asking price is right, can not garantee what the new owner will do with it, What i will say about this Manta is that there is not a huge value in the parts and the restoration work needed appears to be sufficiantly light enough that bought for a price reflecting it.s current value then it could be put back on the road for a total cost, including restoration work, of around what a MOT'd Manta Hatch would sell for, which also gives an indication of what the current sale (not asking) price will be. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john p Posted June 10, 2015 Share Posted June 10, 2015 has this sold yet?is the front panel for sale for the chevette in first pic?cheers john 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evo3000 Posted June 11, 2015 Share Posted June 11, 2015 has this sold yet?is the front panel for sale for the chevette in first pic?cheers john well spotted Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Posted June 13, 2015 Share Posted June 13, 2015 I have my hopes up for this Manta (love the color by the way) and really hope it goes to a good home. It looks very nice I think Dolphin Grey is one of the rarer colors. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john p Posted June 13, 2015 Share Posted June 13, 2015 whereabouts in derby are you jack Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Posted June 13, 2015 Share Posted June 13, 2015 I live in S18 area, Dronfield. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blacksun Posted June 19, 2015 Share Posted June 19, 2015 I used to love my dolphin hatch, I didn't realise the colour was so rare. I should have held onto it as it's more solid than the purple one i have now. If only I had cash, and time. Damn wife and children Good luck with whatever you get for it, hope it goes to someone who sorts it. We don't need any more scrapped. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oliver Posted October 14, 2015 Share Posted October 14, 2015 Hi is this still for sale I'm looking for a dolphin grey or solver get hatch if anyone has one I'm interested Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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