[DeTomaso] Three for the Registry

[MikeLDrew at aol.com]

In a message dated 8/21/10 15 58 50, wkooiman at earthlink.net writes:


> 2036 was a yellow Pre-L.  It had original Campy's and what appeared to be
> original seats.  They were upholstered differently from mine.  My seats 
> look
> like they have 67 Mustang seat covers.  The seats in this car are pretty
> similar in size and shape, but the seat covers have seams that are (sorry
> for this desc), parallel to the direction of travel. 
> 
>>>Standard 1971 seats, those.


>  It had chrome
> bumperettes, 
> 
>>>Proper 1971 style, flat inner corner--and a flat decklid too.


> >a non-factory windshield that was chipped, and an L driver's
> gill (gas cap door).  It looked like it had Hall big bores, but they might
> have been mind train. 
> 
>>>Definitely not Hall pipes--they have chrome slash-cut tips.   The photos 
make it difficult to tell what they are.   They appear to be stock mufflers 
with upturned tips to me?   The Mind Train Pre-L exhausts had a pair of 
cherry-bomb glasspack mufflers with chrome tips sticking straight up (that is, 
the tips are perfectly in line with the mufflers) and these appear to be 
tilting up somewhat.   But it's impossible for me to tell from the photos.


> > There's not much else to say on this car.  Oh yeah,
> it had a delta wing.
> 
> >>>Easily removed, thankfully. :>)
> 
> >4965 was a black L with nicely molded-in GR3 flares.  It has a 4.6 32V 
> Cobra
> engine (96-98) with an Isis symbol on the intake (probably Wilkinson's) 
> and
> Corvette seats.  It looked like it had Marino Perna's Grp 5 10-spoke 
> wheels.
> I didn't check the fronts, but it had Wilwood brakes in the rear.  Had a
> nice delta wing and stock style mufflers.
> 
>>>That car rings a bell.   There was a black GTS-style car in Dallas about 
ten years ago, owned by an AA pilot, and I think he did the 4.6 thing to 
it.
> 
> 
> 
> >4465 (might be 4405 - sorry, my zero looks like a 6) was a Red Grp 5
> conversion with louvered hood, stock painted 351C, polished ZF.  I don't
> recall the seats, but it had lowered floors.  This car was on ebay a few
> years ago.  It's the one with a plexi-glass (see-through) bulkhead.  It 
> had
> a fair amount of chrome on the front of the engine.  This one had a delta
> wing and big bores or mind trains.  The owner apparently has a thing for
> wings.
> 
> >>>Those are Hall big bores.   You don't often see them with chrome tips; 
> note how they aren't slash-cut.
> 
> >I liked 4965 the most.  It was a very nice looking car.  A guy in the 
> shop
> said it was the slowest.  He said the 351C had much more torque down low.
> 
> >>>There ain't no substitute for cubic inches--except for supercharging.   
> A blown 4.6 might go a long way towards eradicating the huge displacement 
> deficit....
> 
Mike