[DeTomaso] First drive of #1267

Mikael mikael_hass at mail.tele.dk
Sat Feb 25 12:24:24 EST 2012


Being a fellow Dane, I've seen the car. Kristian and I go back 25 years,
mostly through a mutual friend, back then he raced Clevelands, I had it
easy, I raced Chevys. No flames please. Guess he won in the end, I now have
two Clevelands (one of them 600HP) and only one Chevy (none of my Chevys
went past 550HP).

But back to the car. I was there when it should be lifted onto a trailer
after paint, I thought it was a really good paint job. Kristian later sent
the car back to the painter, something in the engine room not perfect. He
also had a welder working for him, didn't like the quality, found another.
Kristian is a bit of a perfectionist, which is great for the cars he
restores. I haven't seen the car for months, but I expect it to be put
together really well. It's an interesting mix of orig looking parts, like
the wheels, but it's improved all over.

The colour is truly unique, haven't seen any Pantera in that colour, and
right now I can't think of any car with 10 miles that has that colour.
Optimum colour for a sale? Probably not. Optimum colour for being different?
Damn right :-)

He's planning to go to LMC this year, those that come will have something
special to see...


Mikael

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Emne: Re: [DeTomaso] First drive of #1267


In a message dated 2/24/12 17 57 51, michaelsavga at gmail.com writes:


> Nice looking car, I like the color.  Tell us about the wheels, looks 
> like single slot 17" with an extra deep dish?
> 

Kristian isn't on the forum.

They are standard Pantera East Campagnolo replicas, except they were
custom-made to be replicas of one-slots instead of the normal two-slots.

I actually shipped the wheels to him; here's a photo of one of them in my
driveway:

http://www.poca.com/index.php/gallery/?g2_itemId=25568

Mike




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