[DeTomaso] One-owner cars

[michael@michaelshortt.com]

Could be, but remember that before the LM decision was made, the Pantera was
called the Daytona Corba Coupe.

Front Cover of Road & Track no less (I have 2 copies of it )

Cobras were derived from AC cars of the UK.
and has been mentioned, they already had the Capri from Germany

while GM brought over the Mini Corvette, the Opel GT (cute car)

Supposedly, the car was never called Pantera until the prototype
photographer labelled his film with the Pantera name,

Mike Drew?  Comments???


Michael Shortt






On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 6:15 PM, Tony DiGiovanna <tonydigi at optonline.net>wrote:

> Another thing to consider:  Ford may have considered the import/exotic
> Pantera a success risk of sorts (rightly so) and did not want to risk
> associating it directly with their primary brand:  Ford.  So they may have
> steered it to L-M.  You have to remember how foreign "Foreign Cars" were in
> America back then.  I remember when my cousin bought an Audi and my
> Brother-in-Law a Honda.  The universal question was "a what?"
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: detomaso-bounces at realbig.com [mailto:detomaso-bounces at realbig.com]
> On
> Behalf Of JDeRyke at aol.com
> Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2011 2:24 PM
> To: michaelsavga at gmail.com
> Cc: detomaso at realbig.com
> Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] One-owner cars
>
> In a message dated 10/18/11 7:57:48 AM, michaelsavga at gmail.com writes:
> snip.......
> > 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....
> >
> >
> MIchael, Ford's rationale was, L-M was selling the Capri (first made in
> Germany, then in England) so Ford thought L-M knew something about the
> foreign
> car marketplace. That wasn't the only bad miscalculation FOMOCO made re the
> Pantera.... J DeRyke
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