[DeTomaso] Clock & Gauge Refurbishment - Vendor Report

Sun Mar 28 15:11:29 EDT 2010

Do you have to be a real life "Rocket Scientist" just to refurbish Detomaso
Clocks and Gauges?

Probably not...but he is one!  Day Job, an engineer who builds Tomahawk
Missiles.

Evening and Weekends - Fixing Fiats and misc Clocks and Gauges for other
enthusiasts.

Check out the pix I took earlier today  (
http://www.michaelspantera.com/Photos.html ,  scroll to the bottom ) , super
nice guy,

He will be cleaning mine up in the near future and making a few other things
that I'll reveal later.

Meanwhile, highly recommended vendor based on what I saw today.

Michael Shortt
1971 DeTomaso Pantera
#1660
Savannah, Georgia

On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 8:08 AM, michael at michaelshortt.com <
michaelsavga at gmail.com> wrote:

> That address is like 3 miles from my house, I'll contact him and report
> back.  Michael Shortt
>
> On Mar 27, 2010 11:32 PM, <tmshinro at aol.com> wrote:
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>  I had asked the group during the winter where I might get my analog Veglia
> Borletti clock refurbed.   I received several suggestions and contacted a
> couple but got no replies.  I was only half motivated to pursue it any
> further and I started looking for clocks on eBay.   I saw an auction for a
> refurbed Veglia clock from a Fiat and sent a question to the seller to see
> if he offered refurb services.   The seller deals in Fiat parts.  He
> responded by giving me the email for the person that refurbs his clocks.
>
> I contacted the clock guy (Nick) and he confirmed he refurbs Veglia clocks
> and offered a link to the Ferrari forum where several owners were discussing
> how pleased they were with the clocks they had refurbed by Nick.   There
> were a couple of testimonials that his work was equal to Palo Alto
> Speedometer but much cheaper.
>
> Nick's quote to clean/repair the works of the clock, clean the
> bezel/face/hands and replace the yellowed/scratched lens with an optical
> acrylic lens was only $25 plus $6 shipping and $3 insurance.   I sent him my
> clock and I got it back in less than one week.   My clock was in very good
> shape but did have a yellowed/scratch lens and was very noisy when it ran.
>  The clock I got back looks brand new and runs very quiet now.   I had no
> idea I would be able to fix my clock for so little money.
>
> There has been some discussion about clocks recently, so I thought I would
> pass on Nick's contact info for anyone that my be interested.
>
> Nicolas Rios
> 14 Silver Oak Court
> Pooler, GA 31322
> nrios at earthlink.net
>
> Nick was very quick to respond to my emails when I had questions.   We even
> emailed back and forth when he indicated that my Veglia clock was different
> in appearance from the Fiat and Ferrari clocks he had seen.   He suspected
> it might have been from a Maserati to which I confirmed that DeTomaso owned
> Maserati for a time.
>
>
> Tom
> #5186
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Michael L. Shortt
Savannah, Georgia
www.michaelshortt.com
michael at michaelshortt.com
912-232-9390

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