[DeTomaso] One-owner cars

[michael@michaelshortt.com]

In seeing photos of the factory and knowing that production was very
dependent upon suppliers like Ghia, ZF and Ford,

I'm not so sure that DeTomaso could have made any more of them any faster
anyway.

Appreciate any first hand knowledge of any problems that encountered in the
supply chain back then.

Seems like that since parts like bumpers and dashes, etc. were installed out
of sequence that perhaps

that was the cause, thus why a late model 72 ended up with a 2 pod dash,
maybe they were out of the new

ones and used what they had on hand ( left overs) until more arrived.


Michael

On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 10:52 AM, michael at michaelshortt.com <
michaelsavga at gmail.com> wrote:

> and a fully loaded Lincoln Continental sitting next to the Pantera was
> about 8K.
>
> and when Grandpa and Grandma went into the dealership, they looked at each
> other and said ' What the $#@*!"
>
> Selling these through LM dealerships instead of Ford ( who had salespeople
> used to selling Shelbys, Cobras, HiPo Mustangs, etc.)
>
> was perhaps the leading reason that sales were no more than they were, they
> simply did not know how to sell them and attracted the wrong demographic
>
> into the showrooms.
>
> Remember this was before Luxury automakers had any kind of sporting image
> to the masses, a MB was a luxobarge,
> a BMW was a quirky little European car with a sparse dealer network and
> a Bavaria as a centerpiece.
> Back then, an Eldorado was a sports model, all 21 feet of it.
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>
> But I'm not so sad over it, my 71 is one of slightly over 950 imported that
> year, probably 1 of 500 that survive.
>
> Better to stand out than go to a party and see somebody wearing the same
> suit/dress as the case may be.
>
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> Michael Shortt
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> On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 10:41 AM, John Buckman <jb841 at cox.net> wrote:
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>> Bill,
>>
>> I've owned my '71 Pantera since new.
>> The '71's were $9K and a Corvette was ~$5.6k.
>>
>> John
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