[DeTomaso] Just the facts survey

michael@michaelshortt.com michaelsavga at gmail.com
Thu Mar 1 16:01:44 EST 2012


I thought all 74's were really left over 73 models after DeTomaso and Ford
fell out with each other?


Michael



On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 3:58 PM, Jar Von Ritter <flashbangpop at yahoo.com>wrote:

> 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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> In a message dated 3/1/12 10 14 46, grayjim at att.net writes:
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>
> > 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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