[DeTomaso] DeTomaso Digest, Vol 36, Issue 14

Thomas Tornblom Thomas.Tornblom at hax.se
Sun Jul 15 10:30:59 EDT 2007


Dagny Kristine Bakken skrev:
> Motorsports test of a GT5S in November 85,say the car was
> a"cleveland"powered car,while Performance Cars had a test in May  87,of a
> GT5s saying that "until recently the cleveland was the engine for the
> pantera,but the factory now have switched to the windsor engine.I dont know
> any thing on the GT5 and GT5S,that could not be adopted to the narrowbodied
> version,and if done properly,it will be hard to see that it was orginal a
> narrowbody.I guess your best chance to get a original GT5,is like Mike Drew
> say,to control the VIN so that youre quite sure its from the right
> period,and then check its VIN up against the registry to see if it says
> something about the car.Im not sure if the narrowbody got the same "huge"
> brakes as the widebodies,if it didnt i guess if you find these brakes on the
> car it will likely bee a widebody,as they are quite costly to buy and my
> guess is that one wanting to convert rather choose one of the aftermarket
> brake systems.:)

All late cars had the fat brakes.

> 
> Øyvind Baken

Thomas




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