[DeTomaso] The Fake Pantera Lives????

[Asa Jay Laughton]

Here is an example of the VIN stamped in the metal of top of the pedal 
box.  In -this- case, the metal tag that normally surrounds the VIN is 
gone.  I don't know it was every there.  This is a photo of -my- car, a 
1973 L, I purchased it from the original owner and have all 
documentation to say it's original.  It doesn't have the plate, I don't 
know why.

But I -do- know the plates exist on other cars and there is a cutout 
that would normally expose the VIN like in my photo.

Asa Jay

Asa Jay Laughton, MSgt, USAFR, Retired

& Shelley Marie
Spokane, WA

1971 Mach I Mustang  [ASA JAY]
1973 Pantera L 5533  [ASASCAT]
    
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http://www.asajay.com
http://www.teampanteraracing.com
  



MikeLDrew at aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 10/7/09 16 50 36, boyd411 at gmail.com writes:
>
>
>   
>> I checked all the Vin numbers on my car , and the body tags and no where 
>> did
>> I find a  surround with the place for the Vin # cut out. . My car is a 
>> 1973
>> L and may be different from the model you cited . It has the Vin on the 
>> dash
>> in the corner of the windshield, a partial Vin on a Detomaso tag near the
>> master cylinder and the full Vin on a plastic tag with additional info ion
>> the drivers side door jamb. None of them had a cut out section with a 
>> plate
>> over the Vin #.
>>
>>     
>>>> Your cutout plate, like mine, has probably been removed when somebody 
>>>>         
> reupholstered the front trunk.   There is only one real, official VIN on the 
> car, and the others are just copies for convenience.   The official VIN is 
> stamped on the top of the box that supports the brake vacuum booster, the 
> carpet had a rectangular cutout there, and the the plate with the cutout section 
> goes on top of that.   Do you have carpet on top of your brake booster box, 
> with nothing else?   If so, peel it back and you'll find your car's actual 
> VIN underneath--hopefully it matches the others!
>
> And your friendly Pantera vendors will gladly sell you a reproduction 
> cutout plate, so that you can trim your carpet, and then you can affix it in the 
> appropriate spot to return your car to its original appearance. :>)
>
> The 'partial VIN' on a tag next to the booster is almost assuredly your 
> Body Service Number--a five-digit number, beginning with a "5", and having no 
> relationship to the VIN whatsoever.   It's sort of a secondary VIN, a number 
> used internally by Ford to identify the cars sequentially, because although 
> the bodies were numbered sequentially at the Vignale factory in Turin, by 
> the time they were trucked to Modena, and shuffled in and out of storage lots 
> etc. before they ran down the final assembly line, the cars were no longer 
> in numerical order.   The BSN allowed Ford to document changes, with 'all 
> cars after BSN such-and-such now have this feature', something that was 
> somewhat impossible to do with the VIN, unless the change was one that took place 
> in Turin, and not Modena.
>
> Cheers!
>
> Mike
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