[DeTomaso] 5000. car

michael@michaelshortt.com michaelsavga at gmail.com
Fri Jun 25 13:08:09 EDT 2010


Sad that the Pantera has met that end, did you get the serial Number for all
concerned?

Any potential for a race car only starting point?

Michael Shortt

On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 12:57 PM, deserttwist at juno.com <deserttwist at juno.com
> wrote:

> Hi Guys, Susan in Oregon here. Well I was the second person in line to buy
> the car.  After Boyd dropped out the owner called me back and we hooked up
> the car van to our Ford F-350 and headed to Calif. on Wed. morning. We got
> there 13 hrs later and the next morning Thurs., made arrangements to view
> the car. We got there at 9:00am and the car was in something like a sea
> train container.  It was a tight fit and hard to see the rear or under the
> rear. We asked him to push it out of the container and he had said it was to
> heavy and wouldn't let us push it out. My husband got under the car as best
> he could. The front cross member is pulled into a V ,must have towed it from
> there. The interior is gutted, most of the dash is gone, ther are two seats
> from something else just sitting loose in the car.  The seering wheel is
> broken in half. The remaining dash has been altered to but in after market
> guages. The flare kit is fiberglass, tore and ripped in spots.  The fit is
> very poor and would have to be refitted.  It seems he cut out too much of
> the fenders and fiber glassed to match. All is cracking apart. There are no
> air conditioning hoses or parts, the radiator and fans need to be junked.
>  All extra parts in boxes he has are worthless. Someone had fiber glassed
> over the back deck lid. Need I say more! We left and headed back to Oregon
> and stopped at every fruit stand and filled the car van with tomatoes,
> strawberries and apricots. $500.00 in diesel  and 60.00 for fruit and one
> hotel bill later we feel very lucky to get the car we have. Even with my
> husband doing all the work, it would just never pencil out. Too easy to buy
> someones for 20,000 or so and change things to the way one wants. If anyone
> has more questions feel free to ask and I will get my husband on this
> computer to tell them what he saw. I just saw dollar signs.Too many dollar
> signs!  Sue
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