[DeTomaso] Fantastic fiberglass Pantera parts score

[John McKee]

A carbon fiber Mangusta........
I can see hours of day dreaming coming on.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: <MikeLDrew at aol.com>
To: <detomaso at realbig.com>
Sent: Friday, March 07, 2008 6:32 PM
Subject: [DeTomaso] Fantastic fiberglass Pantera parts score


> Hi guys,
>
> I got an excited phone call from Larry Stock last week.   He just got done
> buying two 18-wheeler loads of fiberglass molds for Pantera parts.
>
> A LOT of parts.
>
> Although he didn't know it at the time he was negotiating the purchase, he
> wound up getting all the original Long & Newman molds, so he can make a 
> complete
> fiberglass Pantera.   He also got dozens and dozens (maybe even more than 
> a
> hundred???) of additional molds for everything you can think of--multiple
> variations on front hoods, decklids, every bumper style you can imagine,
> dashboards, Pre-L, L and GT5 center consoles, etc. etc.
>
> He also has complete flare kits--Gr4, GT5 and GTS.   Plus things like a
> complete nose piece (the whole front valance), and etc. and so forth.
>
> He can also make anything you want out of carbon fiber instead of 
> fiberglass.
>  No, it won't be "real" carbon fiber, i.e. the kind of super-strong stuff
> that's made in an autoclave.   But it will be basically the same as 
> fiberglass,
> except using carbon fiber cloth instead of fiberglass as the material.
>
> It turns out that the fellow who makes all the 'carbon fiber' parts for
> Wilkinson and PI is actually located in Reno, just a few blocks from 
> Larry's shop,
> so now he will be using Larry's molds to make Larry's parts too.   The guy
> makes everything one at a time, with no volume discount.   In fact, Larry 
> told me
> the guy's technique is to simply make a part and keep it inside the mold;
> then when the owner of the mold calls up and requests it, he pops the mold 
> open,
> ships the part right away to the vendor, and then makes a new part at his
> leisure, waiting for the next order.
>
> So, if you're just burning to have a set of carbon fiber door handle 
> buckets,
> Larry Stock is your go-to guy.
>
> Les Gray and I are planning on going up there to inspect the molds, and 
> I'll
> be doing a feature on Les (who was one of the dudes behind the Long & 
> Newman
> project) in the next few weeks.
>
> In the meantime, here are some of the photos of just some of the molds, on
> the website of the outfit that Larry bought them from:
>
> http://hotrodscustomstuff.com/Pantera%20Molds.htm
>
> Oh, and BTW, not pictured here but included in the score was a complete 
> set
> of *Mangusta* molds too!   If you ever had a fantasy of having a 
> tube-frame
> chassis with a Mangusta body on it, you're set.   In fact, you could have 
> the
> whole body made of carbon fiber if you wanted.   Imagine the looks on the
> rice-burners when a fire-breathing carbon fiber Mangusta turned up at the 
> cruise
> night!!!!
>
> (The long pole in the tent for a Mangusta replica is the windshield, and
> Wilkinson told me last week that he's having 25 Mangusta windshields 
> produced in
> Finland in the next few weeks....)
>
> Mike
>
>
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