[DeTomaso] QZF Ratios - was Rare De Tomaso Parts?

[David in Durango]

Interesting and important to know.

No doubt increases the value of a Pantera by  . . . what?  .8 or so?
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <MikeLDrew at aol.com>
To: <JDeRyke at aol.com>; <mbefthomas at comcast.net>; <detomaso at realbig.com>
Sent: Wednesday, December 31, 2008 6:46 PM
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] QZF Ratios - was Rare De Tomaso Parts?


>
> In a message dated 12/31/08 16 22 45, JDeRyke at aol.com writes:
>
>
>> Supposedly, post-'80 wide-body cars had an option of 4.22 or
>> a 3.77 ring & pinion.
>>
>
> Another option on the 80's cars was a 4.00.
>
> I know one original owner of such a car, who paid big extra bucks for his
> 4.00 ring and pinion in his GT5-S.   The top of his gearbox case is 
> stamped
> "4.00".   Yet a few years later he drove side-by-side down the road with 
> another
> GT5-S, with a standard 4.22 ratio, and they turned EXACTLY the same RPM.
>
> So, De Tomaso charged him about $3000 extra for the "4.00" stamp on the
> gearbox, but never bothered to switch the ratios!!!!
>
> He was famous for that sort of thing; Colin Bradshaw paid extra big bucks 
> to
> get a tricked-out motor, but when it finally blew up, he opened it up and
> discovered that it was a bone-stock 351W truck engine; all the aftermarket 
> goodies
> and custom work he had paid for evidently got left behind in Modena
> somewhere....
>
> Mike
>
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