[DeTomaso] Rebirth of #9375

Sean Korb spkorb at gmail.com
Wed Jun 2 17:05:01 EDT 2010


Want!

Oh er-  Nice job with the paint and all.  I have to get a mop now for
all the drool that overflowed from my keyboard.

sean

On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 4:51 PM, Charles McCall <charlesmccall at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
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> In September of last year I brought my car in for what was to be a quick
> respray to fix some annoying defects that had bothered me for some time.
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> The quick respray, like most things DeTomaso, quickly spiraled far beyond
> time and budget. But I feel a lot better knowing that the cancerous parts
> were identified early, allowing them to be fixed before they became more
> serious. They were serious enough as-is!
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> Anyway, today the last part (the exterior mirrors) was installed around 4pm.
> What a coincidence - I just happened to be in the area at 5pm! (the car is 8
> hours from my home..)
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> So I stopped by to see it. It really turned out very well - I'm quite happy.
> The hardest part was matching the factory original pearl white paint. The
> DeTomaso factory was unable to help, Campana was unable to help other than
> to tell me the manufacturer, so I turned to the manufacturer  to try to
> reproduce the color. I brought them my delta wing and let them experiment to
> try to recreate the original. It's lacking just a shade of pink-purple in
> the pearl recipe they developed, but it is pretty darn close.
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> Before I knew that my paint budget was going to be completely blown out of
> the water, I commisioned new wood veneer panels for the doors, with the
> DeTomaso inlays, and a new veneer center behind the ashtray area. Boy they
> turned out well, but I still have to install them. The car is here, and the
> door panels are in my garage at home.
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> I had new decals for the rocker panels made up before having the car
> painted. I really think the 5-S cars look better with those decals, so they
> will be installed over the next couple weeks.
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> Exactly one month to the day tomorrow we head off for Le Mans Classic and
> several thousand kilometers, so the timing is really pretty good. I would
> have liked to have had some more time to debug - the pulled the engine,
> installed a new clutch, flywheel, pulled the suspension and installed all
> new bushings, etc. But the hard part is done, and next week it will be back
> in my garage.
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> The latest pix may be found here:
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> http://www.poca.com/index.php/gallery/?g2_itemId=21126
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> Then simply click on "next" to see the rest of the photos.
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> Mike Drew will be happy to know that I had the exhausts cut apart are they
> are now level! ;-)
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> http://www.poca.com/index.php/gallery/?g2_itemId=21147
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> Charles McCall
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> 1985 DeTomaso Pantera GT5-S #9375
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> "Raising Pantera Awareness Across Europe"
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>  <http://www.poca.com/index.php/gallery/?g2_itemId=2323>
> http://www.poca.com/index.php/gallery/?g2_itemId=2323
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Sean Korb spkorb at spkorb.org http://www.spkorb.org
'65,'68 Mustangs,'68 Cougar,'78 R100/7,'60 Metro,'59 A35,'71 Pantera #1382
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