[DeTomaso] Just the facts survey

michael@michaelshortt.com michaelsavga at gmail.com
Thu Mar 1 16:27:15 EST 2012


Thanks, another one bites the dust...temporarily anyway

On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 4:22 PM, <MikeLDrew at aol.com> wrote:

>
> In a message dated 3/1/12 13 03 14, michaelsavga at gmail.com writes:
>
>
> I thought all 74's were really left over 73 models after DeTomaso and Ford
> fell out with each other?
>
>
> Again with these rumors that were unfounded when new, and just refuse to
> die.
>
> It's true that all 1970 Shelby Mustangs were leftover 1969 Shelbys; they
> were changed for the new model year with different striping.  However,
> Panteras were produced by Ford well into the 1974 calendar year, and they
> even explored the possibility of creating a new 1975 model with different
> front and rear ends and different styling; a prototype was made on a
> 6000-series Pantera body.  But Ford axed the program partway through the
> 1974 calendar year and that prototype remained a one-off (and was sold to a
> Michigan dentist who owned it for many years until he died, and it was sold
> off and now resides in England, although I don't know the owner).
>
> The last "Ford" Pantera was #7380; it was made in (or after) June 1974.
>
> Mike




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