The Tec Mec Maserati Corvette was one of those racing cars that had so much hype about it before it arrived in NZ that it has had a certain mistique about it ever since. The newspapers of the day got quite excited that Mansel was getting the latest Maserati fitted with a powerful Corvette engine and he was going to be able to blow the opposition into the weeds. Reality was quite different sadly.
When Rod Coppins refitted the single seat body, apparently after damaging the Rosier sports car body badly at Dunedin, I always thought it looked like a much earlier style 250F body, looking at photos that, from some angles, appears to be the case, but it is probably just the change in colour and the different fuel injection bulge.
I post these Sarginson and Inwood photos for reference purposes.