I've been doing a lot of research lately, and I have heard that the first few Silva cars were actually hand laid. Also Silva put his hand print underneath on the back half. Don't know if it means anything, just could be a unique item to show people.
There are so many variations on these cars that it would be hard to verify just exactly who built the kit and when. Its a neat car. Wish I had the bucks to attain it!

I TOTALLY must get a third gen VETTE after Grad School. They are so awesome looking. An L88 would be nice (LOL) but a running small block car is more what I'll probably be looking for, not a total resto project. I wish I could ID this car as a Motion Maco, sounds like it would be worth a ton of money. I didn't see any little plates inside the door jamb though. I'll look again. Any other tips would be quite welcome.

Thanks,
Frank

Tyla,

I'd be more than happy to burn all the pics I have onto CD rom and mail it to you. I have a crummy 24k dial up connection and it would take a really long time to email them. I probably have 20 pics and the average size is like 250K each. I can also take more if you want to see anything in particluar.

If you want to send them to me on disk that would be super cool,
Davids site makoshark2 supports uploading pics, if you don't have time or feel like doing it I would be pleased to so we can let everyone get a look at this car.
email me for my address tyladamour@aol.com

I doubt it's a motion car, could be motion parts like my front clip is motion, the silva/motion business union made between 3-5 turnkey cars no one has proved with paperwork the true number of silva/motion cars out there, but I believe all motion cars did have the motion trademark flip top gas cap.
where silva put the little vent at the base of the rear louvers.

Motion pulled his own molds off silvas parts after they parted ways so that's how motion built more makos, and sold kits, again only paperwork proves numbers made.

before I get the horse ahead of the cart is this the one for sale on eaby?
Cheers, P.

How do I contact Mr Motion? What are the chances that this car is an early motion prototype? The glass around the supports was definitely applied by hand. The oddest thing about the car is it has no bumper or provisions for mounting one. It has no headlights either. If you look carefully at the fiberglass, you can see where two circles are in the nose, like they were meant to be cut out for headlights there or something.

The more I hear the more I wanna see pictures,
here's mr motions email
joel@motionmodels.com
Joel Rosen,
He might give you a general idea if the car is could be his but to document it he charges a rather high fee.
P.

Hi Tyla,

Yes, I decided not to buy the car and listed it on eBay instead for my friend on commission. I could have bought it myself for a fair price but I decided it was just too big of a project for me. He offered me 20% if I sold it for him on eBay which I found more than acceptable. I'd be glad to take any photos you want of the car.

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Do you have the link to the ebay page for the car?
please post it here...
P.

Cool that worked. I emailed Joel Rosen and sent him one pic. I need to get to bed now. My email is frankiesaysrelax@excite.com. Goodnight all.