[DeTomaso] Just the facts survey
MikeLDrew at aol.com
MikeLDrew at aol.com
Thu Mar 1 13:08:35 EST 2012
In a message dated 2/29/12 14 02 16, michaelsavga at gmail.com writes:
> I'm looking at my copy, and on page 6 it gives the following example:
> THPNLS01859
>
> T - DeTomaso
> H - Assembled at Modena, Italy
> PN - Pantera
> L - 1971 (Calendar Year)
> S - July
> 01859 - 1859th unit built
>
Note that both the Ford AND De Tomaso books are wrong on one critical
point--they fail to account for the fact that Pantera VINs began not with #1, but
rather with #1000 (or #1001?). So if they start with 1000, 01859 is the
900th built, not the 1859th built. (The math looks weird, but this is
because the first car was effectively "number 0", the second car was "number 1"
and so on.
Steve Wilkinson tells me he owns the original prototype (still in Italy),
but I haven't actually confirmed if it's #1000 or #1001. So it's possible
that serial numbers started with #1001, in which case #1859 would be the
859th Pantera built.
Mike
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