[DeTomaso] ZF-can you imagine?

[michael@michaelshortt.com]

Not only does the ZF equipped Pantera burn rubber *On the asphalt,* our
transmissions are built so tough, we flattened the asphalt as well.

Get rolling today, the DeTomaso Pantera, tough enough to flatten asphalt
today and fly over at at 170 mph tomorrow!

Michael "Mad Man" in Savannah


Hauling as...phalt in 71 Pantera




On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 1:35 PM, Kerry Maguire <kmaguire at landrovermiramar.com
> wrote:

> Can you imagine the difficulties a GT40 Marketing Team would have trying to
> sell a high performance car with a transmission that came out of a steam
> roller? How could you possibly put a positive spin on that?
>
> On the other hand, the steam roller peeps can use a Saab car commercial
> type spin:
>
> "Fendt rollers-built from Lemans racers"
>
> In a message dated 3/6/09 6 48 39, cengles at cox.net <
> http://list.realbig.com/mailman/listinfo/detomaso>  writes:
>
>
> >
> > Tell me if this is right:
> >
> >  The ZF was not originally designed for agricultural nor road building
> > machine purposes. It was designed specifically for the GT40 and then
> later
> > modified for Fendt rollers. Racing came first and the mundane application
> came
> > second.
> >
>
> That is my belief, yes.   The ZF manual supports this indirectly in that
> the
> description of the roller doesn't appear until the Dash-2 manual came out,
> i.e. 1971-ish.
>
> Mike
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Kerry M. Maguire
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