[DeTomaso] What a collection!

[Charles McCall]

Ah, that would explain it. I wrote you off-line that the interior looked
like a stock 5-S and not an Si interior. Now we know why.

Also explains what "happened" to the SI taillights - they never existed.

OK, I can sleep tonight knowing that there are still only 4 targa Si's.

On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 6:21 PM, <MikeLDrew at aol.com> wrote:

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> In a message dated 1/11/11 8 41 36, charlesmccall at gmail.com writes:
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>
> Hmm. It has always been said that there were only 4 Pantera Si targas.
>
> I think I can count 5.
>
> The gold one in this Alexander collection.
> Franz Krump's former Blue targa, now living in Monaco
> I have photos of a burgundy targa that has something like 11 kilometers on
> the clock. It lives in Switzerland and still has the plastic on the door
> panels. I have photos so I know it isn't just a rumor.
> I would swear that PI had an article regarding a yellow Si targa perhaps 5
> years ago registered in France. I would even go so far as to say that the
> last two numbers of the license plate were 42.
>
> That's 4. If this guy has an Si targa, that makes 5, which is more than I
> have ever read.
>
> So what's the deal?
>
>
>
> Confusion on my part, as it turns out.
>
> The red one that belongs to the fellow that I just 'met' is actually a
> GT5-S, which has had Pantera Si sheetmetal grafted onto the nose and tail.
> That's why it wears the original 15-inch GT5-S wheels and has a GT5-S
> interior.
>
> An interesting amalgam of parts!  I'm trying to get the full story.
>
> Mike