[DeTomaso] Video of Italian Car Assembly...Detomaso?...Re: How cars are assembled in Italy

[LS]

Detomaso had Guerrino Bertocchi...one of the most famous engineers/mechanics/test drivers of all time.

There has to be film of him piloting Panteras somewhere!

LS

 



"But the people who said that the 289 (Cobra) wasn't a good handling car didn't know what they were talking about. Compared to what?. That FIA Cobra handled like a dream -- and was fast too." -- Dan Gurney


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 From: "michael at michaelshortt.com" <michaelsavga at gmail.com>
To: LS <lashdeep at yahoo.com> 
Cc: Bill Lewis <lotus0005 at hotmail.com>; "detomaso at realbig.com" <detomaso at realbig.com> 
Sent: Monday, January 30, 2012 12:47 PM
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Video of Italian Car Assembly...Detomaso?...Re: How cars are assembled in Italy
 

Nice video piece!

I wish we had special licenses like that of Sr. Balboni available to us, 
sure would reduce the trepidation factor when driving.

Michael


On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 12:29 PM, LS <lashdeep at yahoo.com> wrote:

The Countach and the Pantera share similarities in terms of specification and construction techniques.
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>Bill's note below reminded me of this video made in the 1980s about Lamborghini.
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>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnvJA9Xtd9I
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>I wish there was something like this professionally done on Detomaso.
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>I'll bet that 1980s era Detomaso factory practices would be very similar to what we see in this clip.
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>LS
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>"But the people who said that the 289 (Cobra) wasn't a good handling car didn't know what they were talking about. Compared to what?. That FIA Cobra handled like a dream -- and was fast too." -- Dan Gurney
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> From: Bill Lewis <lotus0005 at hotmail.com>
>To: detomaso at realbig.com
>Sent: Sunday, January 29, 2012 11:02 PM
>Subject: [DeTomaso] How cars are assembled in Italy
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>I was surfing and got into a Lamborghin website, and was reading the following paragraph, and was amazed at how exotic cars are often (apparently) cobbled together.  So, it's not only Panteras, where Luigi grabs the first part handy and slaps it on.  This car below is over $500K.
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>A Diablo VT-R used the same chassis and drivetrain as a standard VT but received a few modifications to the bodywork, apparently Automobili Lamborghini SpA had some leftover Diablo SE30 parts, therefore they mounted the complete bodywork of a Diablo SE30 on the VT chassis, everything except the side windows was actualy Diablo SE30 specifications, the side windows however remained the normal Diablo, single piece ones, they could still be opened all the way instead of the small part found in the SE30 doors.
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