[DeTomaso] Pandora's next 15 minutes of fame...

[Ken Green]

VIN 2324 is an early 72 (single rear ZF mount) and has a flat deck.  But I've heard that changes were not allways orderly and later cars could have earlier parts if they found some paying around.
 
Ken

--- On Fri, 12/17/10, Rob Dumoulin <rob at dumoulins.net> wrote:


From: Rob Dumoulin <rob at dumoulins.net>
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Pandora's next 15 minutes of fame...
To: "Christopher Kimball" <chrisvkimball at msn.com>
Cc: "Pantera List Serve" <detomaso at realbig.com>
Date: Friday, December 17, 2010, 10:46 AM


My son found it and downloaded it before I had the chance to tell him.  He
wanted me to let you know that it runs and sounds fantastic and he can blow
the doors off of GT2s.  He also wanted me to ask you if your insurance would
pay for him to wreck it :)

One comment he made was that the trunk had the ridge, unlike my '71.  When
did the split trunk start to appear?

Rob

On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 2:06 AM, Christopher Kimball
<chrisvkimball at msn.com>wrote:

>
> Today my sons excitedly announced that the video game, "Forza
> Motorstport 3" had finally released a download-able content package
> which contains my Pantera!  I couldn't wait to see it (and drive it),
> especially since if one wrecks a car in a video game, the car instantly
> gets repaired to "good as new" condition.  The cars chosen for the game
> came from a survey of subscribers to an on-line car magazine called
> Jalopnik; they chose the "most voted for" cars on their site, and
> apparently had some kind of affiliation with Microsoft.
>
> We got
> the car ready to race, and I was interested to see if it really was my
> car.  There were certain things that were incorrect, for example, it is
> listed as a 1971 DeTomaso Pantera while mine is actually a 1972 model.
> Also, they don't offer dark metallic green as one of the available
> colors the player can choose for the car (although my sons assure me
> that green should be available soon).  On the dash, the bottom "dummy"
> switch that I had replaced with a cruise control switch was shown as a
> courtesy light switch.   Finally, the wheels depicted in the game
> version of the car are the original Campagnolo wheels and not the
> after-market ones I use.
>
> What made me most doubt that it was actually a depiction of my Pantera is
> that..........in the game the Pantera always starts!
>
> So I was beginning to wonder if it really was my car after all.
>
> On
>  closer inspection, however, I noticed that the radio is the same one
> that is in my car.  "Well," I thought, "there must have been other
> Panteras from the that era that used the same radio as the one I have."
>  Then I noticed on the rear deck lid that the edging around the opening
> was chrome instead of the stock black (interestingly, it appears the
> game makers put a window there, which is, of course, not correct).  Some
>  time ago I replaced my black surround with chrome.  Still, maybe
> someone else had done that, too.  Looking closer I saw what looked like
> two rectangular speaker grills on what should be the engine cover.  In a
>  real Pantera putting speakers there couldn't work, of course, but what
> could
>  work is to have, say, a couple of fans mounted to vent hot air out of
> the engine compartment--exactly what I added--and the fan grills I use
> are black and rectangular!
>
> But what finally made me realize it
> really is Pandora, is that on the dash just above the light switch is a
> row of three LEDs.  These are found on no other Pantera, since I
> installed them to monitor my three radiator fans.  I wanted to be sure I
>  knew when power was getting to each one, so that if there were an
> electrical problem and the fans weren't working, I would know to stop
> driving.  Or continue driving over 100 miles per hour to keep the engine
>  cool...
>
> Anyway, it's pretty cool to know that a bunch of crazy
> kids will be driving my Pantera into walls, other cars, spectators,
> etc.  No, wait--that's a nightmare!!!
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Chris Kimball
> President, Panteras Northwest
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