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Old 03-20-2023 | 09:53 AM
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From: Douglas Aerospace post production Flight Test & Work Around Engineering bulletin dissembler
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Originally Posted by beernutt
Mine was a 1975 Manta. Bought it with a cracked head, got another from a junkyard and did the valve lapping myself. Clearance specs were in the owner’s manual. Now they tell you ‘don’t drink the battery’.

I wanted the GT.
From underneath they were the same car.

Mine had Manta parts on it because for as beautiful and German as they were, the iron began to revert back to oxide faster than the “Heil Honey I’m Home” sitcom got canceled, featuring Hitler and Eva Braun juxtaposed with Jewish neighbors.

If I had only known about superleggera then I could have gone for “superleicht” as it rusted away.
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