[DeTomaso] New Ford Engine Race Car

[Dave Londry]

Mark,
We should have the piece from that listing available for reference when 
we see the **dumb** quotes.
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In 1981, Popular Mechanics magazine conducted a test with 16 of the 
world’s most exotic cars. The cars were run on a 17 mile loop in 
Southern California, including country roads, freeways, stop and go 
traffic, dirt roads, and medium speed sweepers. They also took the cars 
to Ontario Motor Speedway for performance testing. At Ontario, they 
spent two days running acceleration, braking, skid pad, and slalom 
tests. The results? The Pantera was the overall winner, and by a wide 
margin. It was rated the most consistently excellent car in the test.

Phil Hill and Stirling Moss were two of the test drivers. Of the 
Pantera, Stirling Moss said:

“It really is a sharp looking machine and quite nicely appointed inside. 
I like the gated ZF five speed gearbox, and the engine really delivers a 
tremendous amount of torque. It’s a real boy- racer. The road holding is 
quite good, and the brakes are superb.”

Phil Hill said:

“The Pantera is very good when you’ve missed an apex through 
overindulgence, or in some other emergency. You can do little tricks 
with it you couldn’t do with a front engined car and actually cut 
yourself a new apex.”

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I'm going to find the original (maybe)
dave

tmshinro at aol.com wrote:
>  I see that there was a Pantera listed under the Race Cars For Sale (see link)
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> http://www.motorsportsmarket.com/pages_new/car_detail.asp?car=35
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> Tom
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tom Borcich <tborcich at msn.com>
> To: Pantera REALBIG forum <detomaso at realbig.com>; Pantera Michael Short <michael at michaelshortt.com>
> Sent: Fri, Aug 6, 2010 1:30 am
> Subject: [DeTomaso] New Ford Engine Race Car
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> Michael, that's a great idea. A new formula car or a closed body sports 2000 
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> type race car would be awesome and inexpensive.
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> It reminds me of the original 68 CanAm series when small blocks were used...that 
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> new 5.0L putting out 480-500 hp 
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> in a 1300-1500 pound car would be quite a drive.  A sealed motor like formula 
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> Atlantic would be very dependable and keep
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> Below are some interesting formulas of the past....imagine the car in the wave 
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> movie below at the hill climb with
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> two more cylinders(I think that is a BMW straight 6 powering the car)
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> http://testudladry.free.fr/jcc_videos2005/2005_gemenos_castellana.wmv
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> http://www.motorsportsmarket.com/pages_new/car_pics.asp?car=124&picnumber=114
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> http://www.motorsportsmarket.com/pages_new/car_detail.asp?car=66
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> http://www.motorsportsmarket.com/pages_new/car_detail.asp?car=133
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> http://www.motorsportsmarket.com/pages_new/car_detail.asp?car=11
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> http://www.motorsportsmarket.com/pages_new/car_detail.asp?car=9
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> Best Regards,
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