[DeTomaso] Beautiful stock green Pantera in Maryland....

[MikeLDrew at aol.com]

In a message dated 4/1/13 13 18 20, jb841 at cox.net writes:


> >>>According to that Marti Report, that count (actually 57 cars...my 
> typo) was for 1971. 
> The car had a build date of 9/71, and the VIN was very close to the end of 
> the '71 "model" year.
> That color was only available on the '71 cars.  Actually, all three of the 
> greens that were offered on the '71 cars
> were only available in '71.
> 

>>>It depends on how you define "1971".   At least the medium green was 
offered on the "1971"-spec cars (flat bumpers, flat decklids) that were built 
through Feb/Mar '72.   They were technically considered 1972 model-year cars, 
but in all respects (including paint choices) were built to 1971 standards.

Searching the registry didn't help much, as the colors are listed 
incorrectly (it shows no cars for medium green, and the three it shows for aqua green 
are painted medium green; one was a repaint over a red car, and was not 
originally that color).   Plenty of other cars (well, a few) are in there that 
are painted that color, but it doesn't seem to track them properly for some 
reason.

Rather than drawing a line at 1 January, I prefer to distinguish the cars 
by their characters; the late March-August '72 Pre-L cars were fairly 
distinct from the cars that went earlier, and of course, from the August-December 
L-models, which in turn were different from the January '73-on L-models, and 
so on....

Mike