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what secrets lie behind the swallow. discover new adventures in 360 degrees. and explore this amazing world heritage sites. w world heritage 360 getting up now. believe. it was the working men's sports to pay the studio it was the most brilliant thing ever built. it was simple demands of my own hopes and dreams. because you know about driving. it was a favorite among tuning fans and a star of
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a german comedy movie that's what made it a cult car. and spotless the box of jobs just to go in one ear and out the other. its heyday is long a trench are proud to be in the above all. else the man is a measuring legend of all the special comes. to. claim. her a movie called man to man made it famous in germany every character in its was a kid say even the souped up opal. this one is a replica of the man so in the 1991 motion picture. time to be
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a sob who was chasing a dream when he did he came to the original the movie gave the mantle a reputation it would never shake nor would it's drive his eyes that they were made out to be nooses was moved brainstem taste so bill has no problem with the house. of monaco and i always like the montage and old general and betty's car from want to martha was the ultra monta people also with fulfillment of a tuning up just before the montana strewing. the moment i saw it i knew i needed this in my life moment it might be fulfilling a lifelong dream with an installment for. this dream included $345.00 millimeter wide time is knowledge colleges and performance camshafts. of the customizations have been made to the comm to be exploited for instance. this project to be a solvable accompanied by trade started out with the standard production. was going
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to fly i had to take an angle grinder and a welding unit in all kinds of things to it the parts that widen the body had to be bolted on from the inside riveted and cemented on the outside in the seams played over you can't just slap parts like that on you have to put lots of work into it. to do stuff with some impressive threaded jigsaw puzzle was made of to b.s. his man with the missile at the time as the critical. sometimes to b.s. double makes is meant to available for advertising spots and to be shared it just looks when he's out on public roads but really any negative reactions i. i. i. get it all then from bennett car buffs who insist on keeping faithful to the original they're not that thrilled by a hard plastic rod like this of course but on the autobahn or in town people wait and take a picture. i only ever get positive feedback is that. the mantra is not just
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a car it's a whole life philosophy maintains to b.s. . once a mantle always a man so that's the slogan that unites magic times of many countries into one close community. well in the month of hamburg is another man's hand and the owner of the world's largest month. he things out of receiving. this isn't meant for monta driving smokers. lisicki used inflatable mansion rings like this as decorations for the mantle spring 700 minutes later bow manta rays hung from the ceiling and little postcards were pinned on them not many of these balloon race survived because the dealers pens of course for an inflatable ray that's fatal. open mountains of bullshit will advertising campaign to launch the man.
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actually the contributors got name tags with a modest slogan on them for course. trying to link there were little kites a book of cutouts a lighter match towelettes. very smart and a pen every man could become a mountain man. the man who would never have been with not for the ford capri a mid-sized to pay for the middle class with american styling along good solid engineering and room for the home small family. the markets in $969.00 with an affordable price and sold like hotcakes the mantle was conceived as a competitor. opel didn't have a model in this new segment yes but instead depended on the m.p.'s who paid to meet this demand it was
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a luxury there's nothing could it be but too small to compete with the pre. before the crash because it had the same body except with a bit more luxury of equipment but the opel buyers didn't go for it and the olympia coupe a was quickly taken off the market opel realized that its lower midrange models like the kind that had to be larger and more practical every family had at least 2 chill. 4 people packed for a vacation could barely fit in the cadets had to try it 1st and. the other classics can be admired at the comic is german headquarters in the us as . canyon is the father of the mentor in the 1960 s. he was opals deputy design and director of $969.00 he pulled off the feat of saving both time and money. and. the comic it was developing the successor to the cadets be getting changed the design made the
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comment spaces and gave it a longer front he had his new model now he needed a new name. mentor like the right. ocean images with the trained with coming close at the time. snow event in the water and hard to catch uganda mpg fun time carmakers were also keen on francis in the animal names for cars like the corvette sting ray. the plymouth barrack usual ones far sporty fish were very popular sport to show fish. in new manned. stylishly shorty with a razor launcher pick up on the stock. it's beautifully stable curves and it's
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powerful. new magic formula bio driving your man to your wonderful feeling. the target group was young families couples in their early to mid thirty's but these that it comes off and they were chief executives engineers or teachers with a wife and 2 children they were the ones who could afford the car and they didn't want to look at. or noble record either she was. trying to come to court. and then to me in northwestern germany about $100.00 men tests have come together here all men to aid the 1st generation. unlike later models these are really modified. many here both in mantis from the 1st and news in here use of them from elderly relatives they look after them like they were babies. cats coffee also pimps and princes
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970 ok good i meant. it was among the photos sold and even going to says who claim to claim it served as the basis for a model. fish model macon or a spot at the con and measured and photographed every detail including the speaker of the ring a shelf. the speaker on the rich shelf wasn't standard equipment by any means it was an optional century that the previous owner had put in i didn't know at the time but the norm of company had used the speaker for them only when the. now the speaker isn't every version of the man to the model design is put out. before to off to speak it is still on the
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ridge shelf of my car today. memphis heading is a fan with a genuine rarity a man with a turbo charged engine with a global deal is an invented manufactured in a very small edition in $970.00 poole the idea was to etch out the brawny a ford capri by offering greater performance. by the turbo charged man to guzzled guy. so. the 1st oil crisis put a quick end to it only $28.00 to the charge meant to split the bills which find nothing which have survived. that's all told it's no different car was only on the streets for 3 years when they drove it in rallies and had some engine trouble added on after that it stood in a garage for 30 years without anyone knowing about it it was sold 2 more times before i took it on if i talk off the wall in one condition under the name of. the moment it was relatively affordable for its time it became the sports car for the working class but to me is 60 who is college limited to status to its appearance
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somewhat more subtle than bias could afford the 90 horse politician old take the engine. this 975 man to is one such case. it belongs to jacqueline push she is often the odd woman out at me like this. when you're. going to tell me when a performance camshaft forged pistons in a bigger cylinder have called. now it sounds like this. one not by the normally you get 60 horsepower out of the engine would guess this one has about $75.00 horsepower and it really takes off. in the mid 970 s. young people in germany started finding and buying used mantas often they'd invest
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their entire savings in the comm thomas feels it has i don't dismantle for 25 years no. it's reflex to bomb the heart and it was really important to have this giant decal running along the side under the door with monta on and so that was an optical customisations about the small that's about this. then you needed a black hood a rear sun shade different seats whatever you could go. ahold of. those days you drive down to the jungle dealers and unscrew parts from other cars we were still doing that this was about was that you hope that they improve the junk dealer 5 doors mark and you had different seats for your car. we laugh about it today to us turning amounted to attaching least 3 parts wiper wings on to look at this washer you need. even these accessories are hard to come by today new parts were meant as a starting to get to the news dream of some left over in ministry in an old opel
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dealers basement some way. back to the rafters with manta pads is a reality for eco. he's got parts that were listed as discontinued long ago. in my mind to change parts of the total of $27.00 man to eggs and call myself some of them myself took on a much larger from an acquaintance gave up his home because he had parted out 13 or 14 among the parts harder to come by the chrome ones but i stored him by a bushel. also from christe one here is either a lot of the office molding i don't know for sure. this is red isn't it but it's absolutely a rare. exception neither is a steamed among manta fans not only for his parts. they call him the man with the
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side members these load bearing elements of the suspension of them and his weak point they're especially prone to rust and replacements are no longer made. i have traced the shape of the side members of my old man to. into a big sheet of kabul i did that piece by piece and stop the cobbled stencils onto a centimeter thick sheets of steel and cut out the shapes i did all that my father's dog shed next to the workshop took me a whole saturday but then i have the patent all i had to do was find some sheet metal millimeters thick to make even more solid metal bush. by the side members makes will survive any man to an existence he's a legend among aficionados. of course he himself. he's been driving it
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for over 20 years with utter devotion. you. mean. i was. in the mid 970 s. up to the manager had sold nearly half a 1000000 demand starts are dropping off new competitors moved into the markets the mantra was beginning to look in little out of date. ok cool down it's developers to save the day with the new model their answer was the man to be it was to be bigger and more cutting edge.
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that's the public see the study models from 973. experts describe them as the most exciting thing opal had ever designed but they were simply too complex and expensive to take into mass production. design it or scallion worked on this once. this far from signing murder drugs it was an opportunity to experiment feed would come up with calls like that many times. it was part of our jobs and we kept the story. since we were proud of what we created back this. $975.00 decided on the less adventurous option the man to be was to be thrifty and simpler than its previous s.-a. in the 1980 s. and ninety's it became a favorite object of tuning things. my
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mind. dynamic bracy sporty comfortable sight from. start off in your new mantra in mind. on how to live trust and they radek aided all the weak points the monterey had the mount to be had a bigger interior more headroom for the back of a bigger trunk more pleasant handling rater track with an a longer wheelbase they made everything slightly more comfortable and in the early 1980 s. car buyers went for it. is a real man to man. he has a model car collection every one of them i'm so be nice. also
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has 14 lives. in his garage all of them in original condition rode with me and rest for. his collection of his this classics entire production run 13 years with a man to be longer than any other opel model had ever. the boys. his 1st manta at age 21 a dog. he's still got it. but my grandfather gave me the money for it because he didn't want another old car on the premises like the o.p.'s going on had before that he said buy something decent i new car i've always known i buy myself a man time that's how i got this one here like grandfather also told me don't buy a g.t. with a top speed of 188 kilometers an hour early kill yourself it's got too much horse and that's how i ended up with a 90 horsepower model i'd like to ask about. the boss says she has had his share of
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smuts because of his infatuation with mantas to make it worse the tuning craze to cold in the 1980 s. and the man to embody it is most embarrassing extremes. to customize the mantra for next to nothing the components have been mass produced they can be found in millions of junk cars and you could just one screw them over a weekend a new engine or a new axle no problem at all plus the mechanics were easy to understand and install a real split is from clash over. the many add ons of often dubious taste made the man to the box of jazz in fact to just build entire books in germany even meant to only those who had never ever tuned anything at all will not test the devotions wasn't sped by us who knew how to defend themself. but if it got to be too much i'd say want a man to drive as ever get hammer royds because all the buff heads a city in v.w. golf so not shut them up. but the tuning craze had damaged the mantis
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image. opals set out to change that. ad campaigns depicted the man to as a sophisticated cop with a man of the world as a car for the ladies. but payne was hardly convincing hockey because the mantle was technologically long. city. opal experts hina muntari has written several books about the man. on the links i entered in front with transverse the axels rigid that was at the 960 s. . will have been doing very well with that until the late 1970 s. . but when the man to be was updated for the 2nd model cycle in 1902 people wouldn't buy this stale old engineering anymore due to the technique next to. the stale old engineering was still good for something though most useful as for
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instance the mentor 400 model brought home some big wins from international rallies like the dot com it was the most powerful of all mentos. the advertising slogan was for experts and aficionados. this meant to us and by hunting. as a rule the only dr said on race tracks it packs $280.00 watts power under the hood and weighs in at just under a ton. it makes the 0 to 100 kilometers an hour spent in less than 6 seconds. novels car is a very special. it was driven by german rally bull champion. that
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was in 1982. the manager came to answer than schnabel by chance. for syrian faults or you can only 3 of these pilot production cars were made. noyon went off put them up for sale in 1989 and a retiring in west germany bought one. eventually he couldn't use it anymore they got to be too old the car was too hard for him to drive and he sold it or. it was how the muscle man said would prop up the regular model sagging sales of the $980.00 s. bus in vain the production run was far too short so just 3 years. in 1000. $400.00 project was shelved after and the $245.00 units built.
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a very fine line separates cult and comedy with this german automotive classic. it had such an impact on the pop culture of its day that it was pushed into a museum. today the mantle from the movie called man to man is parked in the homestead ashish to devlin is the public dodge plant alongside exhibits dating back to 945. in the 1991 over a 1000000 people flocked to see the movie. 11000000 movie it was watched it on t.v. . the mantle was a success on the silver screen agree and not many cars stopped. the flow of terrorists it received the girlfriend of the protagonist betsy in the film was played by an actress who lands.
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i. have. to me it was a really big thing that was my 1st the after motion picture. the course was my vote of course. we had no idea it would be such a hit. and so many german movies were showing in germany at the time that this success was really something special. about us alaskan spends on the us and we have the internationally famous producer band i sing on board if some of us are wow then you would be working together with very prominent people especially those on the. right has been that i've been in the film business for 27 years but i only ever have to say i'm who she from month to month and at least in germany everybody knows who i'm talking about i'm so proud of that. the comedy about the naive blonde pushy and the one time in chanel meant to draw the bass he also permanently skewed the concert he takes it even so the mantra is knowledge classical music most of history
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all the jokes all but forgotten. it's all to the stuff that's what ended up giving this car status for the monterey stood alone independent of the film it was never the butt of the jokes yes that was more than must have been but today when you see a man to be on the autobahn everyone gives it a thumbs up they think it's cool to see someone driving a set of wheels like that lou and i will make you sinatra. and music again mission talk about musicians doesn't say today i'm going to write it he says today i'm going to make music move the news to me and he can hit it lucky or no one to his was a hit so not every column will be so harsh it was an interesting interview of it and once it was over it was has been for many years later i realized it had been something special. the other film and treasure it to me
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