[DeTomaso] Miura tools

["Jürgen M. Wilms"]

Please, don't throw us ISO guys in with the Ferrari crowd: we don't wear loafers and most of us do our own wrenching.

Cheers from Germany

Jürgen
(Mangusta and Grifo – own both, love both)


On 06.02.2013, at 21:26, MikeLDrew at aol.com wrote:

> 
> In a message dated 2/6/13 9 31 20, lashdeep at yahoo.com writes:
> 
> 
>> If they are correct and original...yes.
>> 
>>>> I once had just one piece of a stock Pantera tool kit.   it's the bit 
> that engages the lug nuts on one end, and is turned by the ratcheting handle 
> on the other, and has a plastic disc that you hold to support it.   It was 
> kind of rusty and crappy-looking.
> 
> Turns out the Iso Grifo and Bizzarrini both use the same setup.   A guys 
> restoring a Bizzarrini found out via the internet that I had this thing 
> floating around, and bought it from me for a hundred bucks or something like that!
> 
> It astounds me that a full, original tool kit can add $5-10K to the value 
> of a high-end Ferrari, Lambo, Aston Martin etc.   I think the tool kits were 
> purchased as a kit, and thus the Pantera kit might be identical to those 
> used in some of those other Italian cars.   Imagine buying a nice, stock 
> Pantera, lifting the tool kit out of the trunk and selling it to some Iso guy for 
> $5K!
> 
> Mke
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