[DeTomaso] Rare Colors
MikeLDrew at aol.com
MikeLDrew at aol.com
Thu Jan 12 00:12:42 EST 2012
In a message dated 1/11/12 20 01 56, detomasoregistry at gmail.com writes:
>
> Talking about common and rare colors...
>
> Does anyone have a USA GTS in the original (even a repaint) Yellow/Gold?
> (It looks like orange with the black, but the factory/Ford papers call it
> "Yellow/Gold"
> and it is only on the USA GTS.)
>
> There is a guy that was selling Pantera side script decals on eBay...
> He uses his USA GTS as the photo. This may or may not be the original
> paint and hue.
> But I don't think his car is in the registry.
>
Tim Hobley in Denmark has a US GTS that was repainted in traditional
Pantera yellow. But he pulled the doorpanels and underneath it's the beautiful
yellow-gold.
There was one that used to come to the POCA Fun Rally, years ago. I
believe that one year it was involved in a head-on collision while at the Fun
Rally; thankfully it wasn't destroyed. The owner was a So-Cal guy. I don't
remember who it was, or where it went. (The collision may have been a silver
GTS, but I think it was the Yellow-gold one).
I just now remembered that I shot a single photo of the car when attending
my first POCA Fun Rally in 1990. After a 30-minute search through dozens
of photo albums, I came up with that actual photo. It's a bit faded after
21 years, but you still can get the idea of what it looked like:
http://www.poca.com/index.php/gallery/?g2_itemId=34558
Note that it's wearing (presumably non-original) Euro GTS side markings.
Mike
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