[DeTomaso] Just the facts survey

michael@michaelshortt.com michaelsavga at gmail.com
Thu Mar 1 13:23:24 EST 2012


What about the one or two that were CRASH TESTED?


Michael



On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 1:08 PM, <MikeLDrew at aol.com> wrote:

>
> 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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