[DeTomaso] Euro Pushbutton #1150 for sale

[LEVITT1946 at aol.com]

Nice car indeed 
 
 
In a message dated 12/21/2013 4:49:32 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
MikeLDrew at aol.com writes:


In a message dated 12/21/13 13 09 15, guson at home.se  writes:




Nice pictures indeed.   I noticed that it has  round edge front bumpers and 
flat edge rear bumpers and they are blacked  out.  Like most Panteras I 
assume this one has had some updates  made.



>>>I suspect the front bumpers  were changed.



>Some things in the pictures I haven't seen  before.  Are these typical of 
PB cars?

>Rear deck lid badge  says de Tomaso, not Powered by Ford or the Detomaso 
V8 badge.  Never  saw that badge before.

>>>Nor have I.



>Hand brake is located on the driver's side next to  the console forward of 
the seat.  I wish mine was located  there.

>>>That's an interesting  modification.  I don't think it was original.



>What's the push/pull knob next to the driver's seat  near the rear 
console?  Manual choke?

>>>I think you're exactly  right.



>What's the pull handle next to the panel light dimmer  knob on the 
instrument console?  Emergency front hood  release?

>>>I don't think that's a  push/pull switch.  It has a flat paddle shape, 
and I think it goes up and  down.  It looks a little bit like the four-way 
turn signal switch that  was fitted to the earliest RHD Pantera known.  That 
is probably the  original turn signal switch this car came with, and it was 
retrofitted with a  standard column-mounted switch later?  That's just a 
guess  though.




>The round Isis crest next to the Pantera script above  the glove box looks 
like the emblem that is on my Momo steering wheel (that  I've never seen 
another like it)

>>>That is a stock steering  wheel emblem liberated from the remains of the 
rubber pad.  It has gold  trim.  On this car, a wheel center emblem has 
been kluged into the steel  wheel.  Yech!



>One slot wheels in front and two slot wheels in  back.
High placement of the Pantera and Detomaso script on the rear panel  (looks 
unbalanced)

>>>They are replacements; the  original early cars like this came with 
extremely fine, delicate emblems, much  smaller than the later style we are 
accustomed to.  Those looked okay in  this location, whereas these don't.



>Hood vents?  I assume these didn't come from the  factory.

>>>True dat.



>Has three color tail light lenses.
Shoulder  harness belts mount on the flat part of the bulkhead and not in 
the raised  edge.

>>>Yes, there is a box welded to the firewall  that accomodates the seat 
belt mounting bolts.

These early cars are  filled with unusual features that differed from the 
production  cars....

Mike


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