[DeTomaso] Pantera 2862

[MikeLDrew at aol.com]

In a message dated 5/23/08 9 08 55, thedrol at pobox.com writes:


> Does that mean that there are 13 Gr4 cars and one car masquerading as a
> Gr4 car (#2862)?
> 

Well, there are LOTS of Pantera race cars that were converted from ordinary 
street Panteras to nominally meet Gr4 spec.   There's the three cars that were 
racing in Denmark, Jim Saxton's car, the former Colin Haney car that ran 
Sebring in 1975, 5855 which was a Gr3 car later converted to Gr4 spec by the 
factory, 3314 (the Racing Legends Pantera) which was another Gr3 car that was 
privately converted to Gr4 spec (both coincidentally currently for sale in France), 
and on and on.

And add to that, the L-model road car masquerading as one of the genuine 
cars, falsely wearing the 2862 number.

But the factory only built 12 genuine Gr4 lightweight chassis race cars in 
period, and they are completely unique in dozens of ways from ordinary Panteras. 
Of them, only one was destroyed; the rest are still kicking around in one 
form or another.

Mike


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