[DeTomaso] stationary head lights

[Will Kooiman]

There's a Pantera down here that has what the seller called a "Mangusta
Kit".  The stock headlights are removed and filled in. The front bumpers are
gone (I think).  The headlights are mounted about where the turn signals are
normally mounted.  The turn signals are mounted in the grill.  It looks
sorta like a single-headlight Mangusta - hence the name.

The description sounds like a hack job, but this car is well done.  It looks
pretty nice.

Will.

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From: detomaso-bounces at realbig.com [mailto:detomaso-bounces at realbig.com] On
Behalf Of michael frazier
Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2008 3:52 PM
To: Ken Green; jderyke at aol.com; dyogi at hawaii.rr.com; detomaso at realbig.com
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] stationary head lights


I would think the Breathless Performance parts would rise above the fender
line in streamlined covers like those of the C5R Corvettes.
They do several parts from vacu-formed plastic.  I don't see much need for
this as the lights are up when it's DARK.  I also like the light
output from the big round Marchal units I used to use.  I say this while the
current car has the VaderPantera Performance headlight kit installed
.....when I bought it.
Michael> Date: Thu, 8 May 2008 13:42:15 -0700> From: kenn_green at yahoo.com>
To: JDeRyke at aol.com; dyogi at hawaii.rr.com; detomaso at realbig.com> Subject: Re:
[DeTomaso] stationary head lights> > I think the diameter of headlights has
drastically deceased in the past 3 or 4 years. I would suspect that the
original cut in the fender may offer sufficient vertical extent for a modern
light. One option might be to trim the leading edge of the cut parallel to
the nose of the car to get a little more vertical extend.> > I think Goran
has something like this, it would be good to ask him how well his works.> >
Ken> > JDeRyke at aol.com wrote:> In a message dated 5/8/08 12:39:02 AM,
dyogi at hawaii.rr.com writes:> snip....> > One of our members is looking into
putting stationary head lights on his > > Pantera. > > > Note that of the
few that have done this mod in the past, to get adequate > lighting
distances at night from the rather small available space on a Pantera > and
using road-legal lights, it was found necessary to cut the fenders from the
> front of the headlight buckets down to the break-point of the front of
each > fender. The resulting bodywork and repainting necessary has stopped
many (myself > included) who might otherwise be interested. I'm interested
in any road > results on moonless nights after these lights are mounted in
uncut fenders- at well > above 55 mph, of course. THanks, Dennis- J Deryke>
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