[DeTomaso] Another Registry Milestone

[Julian Kift]

I have to be the first to stand up and admit that when Chuck started on his endeavor (not so long ago) I was one of the sceptics, but I'll happily eat my words and tip my hat to you Chuck, what you have achieved in a relatively short amount of time is bordering on incredible. I'm sure it has been at some great sacrifice personally to keep up with it all and the community is indebted to you...... don't go off on an ego trip just yet though ;>)

Whilst on the praise, I have to also thank you for the "For Sale" section; #5645 is listed there and I have had 5 calls in the past couple weeks, 4 of whom mentioned seeing the car on Provamo. I have 3 (maybe 3) people coming this weekend to view, one from as far away as Holland.... okay, he is actually viewing a couple while he is here, but nonetheless the website is reaching a wide audience.

Of course as a late series GT5 owner it wouldn't be right to not also acknowledge the work Peter Havlik has done to document and record the 9000 series Pantera's.

Keep up the good work,
Julian

> From: MikeLDrew at aol.com
> Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2011 20:20:56 -0400
> To: cengles at cox.net; detomasoregistry at gmail.com; detomaso at realbig.com
> Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Another Registry Milestone
> 
> 
> In a message dated 9/14/11 17 14 20, cengles at cox.net writes:
> 
> 
> >                 Well deserved congratulations on this significant 
> > milestone.
> > Egad, I have opined that there were no more than about 3,000 Panteras that
> > had not turned into rust or scrap and I appear to be wrong. 
> > 
> >>>Well, don't forget that the registry incorporates all De Tomaso cars, so 
> 4000 entries doesn't mean 4000 Panteras.   But the number of Mangustas, 
> Longchamps etc. is very small so we're still getting pretty close to 4000 
> Panteras.
> 
> The sad thing is, there are still lots and lots of Panteras that are 
> rotting away in garages or barns, neglected and unknown.   And there are others 
> that are on the road, but their owners are sort of anti-social, and thus don't 
> belong to any clubs, forums, and certainly don't participate in the 
> registry.   So as significant as the 4000 number is, I would hazard a guess that it 
> represents far less than 80% of the total number of cars that are still 
> surviving.   That's just a guess of course, but just in the past few weeks I 
> have learned of two barn-find Panteras that have been rotting away in garages 
> (one in northern California, one down south) for more than 20 years.
> 
> They're out there....
> 
> > >  Well done,
> > sir.
> > 
> >>>Indeed!   It's an often thankless job, but everyone who owns a De Tomaso 
> car of any kind should be grateful that there is somebody willing to devote 
> the time and energy to document them thusly.
> 
> Mike
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