[DeTomaso] front hood headlight buckets rubber grommets on 1972 detomaso pantera
MikeLDrew at aol.com
MikeLDrew at aol.com
Sun Aug 1 02:03:28 EDT 2010
In a message dated 7/31/10 9 56 17, boyd411 at gmail.com writes:
> The
> fenders were hand made . They were hammered on wooden forms.
>
>>>Not at all true. The fenders, and all the body panels, were stamped
just like any other production car. The late-model cars (GT5-S etc.) used a
mix of leftover stamped parts and hand-made parts.
> >That's why the
> headlight buckets are marked with the serial numbers of the car.
>
>>>That part is true. Although the parts were stamped, they were still
hand-fitted to each car. The fenders and the buckets were tweaked, hammered
and filed to fit, then serial-numbered to keep them from being mixed up.
On the early cars, the serial number appears all over the place, as the
window trim, emblems behind the windows, and all sorts of other bits and bobs
were all hand-fitted. On the later cars, the parts were standardized enough
that it wasn't as necessary.
Mike
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