[DeTomaso] # of surviving cars

[MikeLDrew at aol.com]

In a message dated 4/20/10 14 16 23, gow2 at rc-tech.net writes:


> I talked to Hall last year before he passed. I know mine was done there
> but Hall and those at the shop said, yep, probably was, looks familiar,
> and that was all I could get from them. Obviously they were more
> concerned about Hall at the time and I was not about to press for more
> info.....BUT......It is a real shame Hall did not keep better records or
> his own little registry. It could have been comparable to something such
> as "Yenco".
> 

Hall has fantastic records--I've seen them.   Or at least they HAD them.   
They've got filing cabinets with copies of all their invoices, arranged 
alphabetically.   You'll note that they always (or usually) ask for your car's 
serial number when you place your order--or at least they did in the past.   
So many/most of those invoices have that number annotated on them.

It's old-school, hand-written paper invoicing, and I don't know how far 
back they go.   It's possible they purged their files from time to time, but it 
strikes me as equally possible that they have every scrap of paper since 
day one.   But they are very concerned with privacy issues and emphatically 
won't share that information.   Maybe times have changed and they might 
entertain the idea today, I don't know?

Mike