[DeTomaso] Claude DuBois Pantera

[MikeLDrew at aol.com]

In a message dated 1/2/09 10 12 47, JDeRyke at aol.com writes:


> All narrow-body Panteras sold in
> Europe were called 'GTS' by DeTomaso clear thru the mid-'80s
> 

Not true.   Look at the Euro sales brocure.   The GTS was the top-of-the-line 
specification, but plenty of people bought the Euro Pantera L, which was 
nominally identical to the USA-spec Pantera except for the front bumper 
configuration, i.e. it didn't have all the goodies (aluminum intake, Holley 
double-pumper, GTS exhaust, uprated interior, etc. etc.) of the Euro GTS.   I do believe 
the GTS was more popular however, and thus they are more likely to be 
encountered.   But I know plenty of people who have Euro L Panteras as well.

One, in fact, was sold by Claude Dubois in Belgium, later exported to 
Connecticut, and then sold from there back to England?   So it certainly got 
around....

Mike


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