Have you ever seen a body like it? We can tell it was made in a permanent mold, so someone was planning to, or did, make several."

"Great site!  Just a bit of info on the Bob Mosier's 5-11-05 photo... Revell models made 1/32's of this car.  They came in red or blue as best I can recall as my brother and I had one each.  Unfortunately, one day we had a terrible dispute and both models were destroyed.  (I guess boys will be boys now and then.)  May I suggest contacting Revell for a history of products vintage 1971-1976?"

(5-10-10)  From Chuck Lantz:

"I noticed the Bob Mosier Manning Special photo, and recognized the car body pictured. The caption was correct where it guessed that the body appeared to be from a production mold.  Though I cannot recall the name of the thing (it will come to me sometime in the middle of the night.), it was a kit-car body sold in the early 60's. It might have been made by Kurtis, or was at least a knock-off of their bodies.

I think the company was based in either Northern California or Northern Nevada, and they ran a few small ads in Sports Car Illustrated and possibly Road & Track. At least two of them were purchased by guys from the San Francisco Bay Area. I saw one of them in the early build stages in Oakland, in a friend of a friend's garage. I recall that it was fiberglass, and while reasonably "clean" in the glass layout, it was heavy as hell. I think they were designed to drop onto a Corvette chassis, but that's a very hazy guess. 

The faux Testa Rossa cutouts behind the front wheels, and the very wide and flat nose were what gave it away. Both were the most distinctive features of the body."