According to the auction people, in 1977, this car was found at a car dealership in Pennsylvania by the legend Tom Hoover, who tipped off Mancini about the car, which at the time registered just 19.5 miles on the odometer.
It had an amateur paint job, but was virtually unmolested otherwise.
Mancini bought it with the intent to resell it, but ended up hanging onto it for a few years.
During his time of ownership, he did install a Dana rearend and applied the Lemon Twist paint, and he replaced one door after needing a quick replacement on one of the Mancini Racing team cars.
Then, in 1982 it was sold to a Canadian buyer. It returned to the states some years later and was stowed away as a collectors item, unraced and unaltered. Mecum’s listing notes it has been “driven only on occasional, unauthorized street jaunts since ’77,” but to this day it still shows only 3,799 miles.
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