[DeTomaso] Just the facts survey
Jar Von Ritter
flashbangpop at yahoo.com
Thu Mar 1 15:58:52 EST 2012
To add to the confusion: My car is an L-model #5909 and is titled as a '73, although Mayberry Lincoln-Mercury (who sold it to me) said it was really a '74.
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From: "MikeLDrew at aol.com" <MikeLDrew at aol.com>
To: grayjim at att.net; rgg at gregorycook.com; cmccann1972 at gmail.com; kermit at gabbagabbahey.net; garth_rodericks at yahoo.com; detomaso at realbig.com; spkorb at gmail.com
Sent: Thursday, March 1, 2012 11:05 AM
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Just the facts survey
In a message dated 3/1/12 10 14 46, grayjim at att.net writes:
> Mike,
>
> Do we know when the the first '74 was built and what the number was?
>
>>>All that info is listed in the orange Ford parts book on Page 2, and
that information is copied over (complete with errors) into the De Tomaso parts
book that Wilkinson cooked up in the 80s and is still the primary reference
for ordering parts.
Before #2293 -- 1971
>From 2293 -- 1972
>From 4269 -- 1972 1/2
>From 4840 -- 1973
>From 5900 -- 1974
By looking up the VIN of 5900, we can see that it's THPNNA5900, which would
make it a July '73 build date. That's rather early, don't you think? It
just highlights the completely capricious nature of the model year
changeover, which was apparently dictated by Ford.
Again, these are completely arbitrary distinctions and have nothing to do
specifically with differences in the cars themselves. The cars evolved over
time separately from the model years; for example, cars built in January
and February of 1972 are actually built to the 1971 specifications, generally.
This is repeated over and over as the details changed at random times.
The L-model was a fairly sharp delineation between 'early' and 'late' cars,
but the first 800-or-so L-models received the two-pod dash, and it wasn't
until sometime in 1973 that they switched from the inside to the outside fuel
filler, etc. etc. etc.
Mike
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