[DeTomaso] Amazing video footage from the early days

Rob Dumoulin rob at dumoulins.net
Tue Jun 8 19:52:49 EDT 2010


This is absolutely priceless.  Thank you for sharing it.

On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 3:49 PM, Mark McWhinney <msm at portata.com> wrote:

> First, a bit of background info -- Claude DuBois was originally Europe's
> Shelby distributor, and in 1971,he began a journey with De Tomaso that
> positioned his dealership as the number one seller of Pantera's in the
> world.
>
> With his racing background, Claude became a privateer of one of the first
> Pantera Race Teams. His race team experienced impressive early success with
> a Pantera propelled by relatively stock 351 Cleveland as hi-po engine parts
> were initially not available for his team.
>
> Following his lead in late 1971, The Factory built 12 competition Panteras
> to contest FIAs now legendary Group 4
>
> What many do not know is that Porsche was so concerned about the factory
> Panteras' arrival, that they coerced the FIA into homologating the Group 4
> Panteras at a weight penalizing 2,755 lbs.
>
> Our very own Motorsports Journalist, Mike Drew, who has traveled
> extensively in Europe and visited the automobile factories, has cunningly
> uncovered archival footage illustrating the anxiety the Pantera's initial
> success brought to Porsche. The Pantera has been credited with accelerating
> Porsche's engineering team to turbocharge the 911 and bring out the 930.
> Now, there exists documented proof.
>
> Risking an international incident, Mike successfully ferreted this footage
> out of Germany and back to the States.  Now, it is in the public domain on
> the POCA website.
>
> The full-size video is at http://poca.com/PorschePantera.wmv  It is 67
> megabytes but well worth it.  If you have a slow connection, you could try
> the smaller version at http://poca.com/PorschePantera320.wmv
>
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