More owners manual - Manfred Mineif

Guess what, I obtained another manual. It's a reprint though, thus more affordable. And it arrived today by post with a nice stamp:

The reprint looks quite Original though with a patina look:

The first page reveals it's a copy though, they wiped out the actual owner details but the dealer stamp was kept:

On the left top it does mention the written year 1978 and on the right corner it does show 3653

I figured the nr 3653 might have been the actual VIN. Meaning this must be a manual belonging to a Safari. I have not been tracking Safari VINs but do have two in archive: VIN 4711 (1978) and VIN 5074 (1980).

More of interest is the actual dealer stamp, which appears to be Autohaus M. Mineif in Neustadt (bei Hannover):

I could not find much more about this dealer, I suspect it no longer exists. As for M. Mineif, it appears he was a racing driver in the past. But again, not much more information could be retrieved on the internet.

See also my other blogs about some other Monteverdi dealers:

http://monteverdisierra.blogspot.com/2018/05/monteverdi-sales-brochures.html

http://monteverdisierra.blogspot.com/2018/04/brochure-monteverdi-safari-sierra.html

When doing some additional checks I found this article in the Auto Motor und Sport magazine (nr 6 1977):

For those who does not master the German language, apparently his garage was more well known as anticipated. In fact in 1976 he sold the most Ferrari's in Germany (thus more then the well known Auto Becker in Dusseldorf). He sold 8 in total of 80 delivered in Germany (amongst 16 dealers). Note he was originally a Lada and Saab dealer. I wonder if selling additionally Monteverdi's as well would not have caused problems (given their history).

As for the given address 3057 Neustadt 1 / Hannover I could not find much more either.

I'm slightly suprised to see so little information and history could be found about this dealer and it's owner.