[DeTomaso] R&T Article

[Charles McCall]

Keep practicing Julian - it's not THAT hard and you'll get it eventually!!
;-)

Wings are plane parts, and babies wear bonnets... 

Charles McCall
Raising Pantera Awareness Across Europe
1985 DeTomaso Pantera #9375
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From: detomaso-bounces at poca.com [mailto:detomaso-bounces at poca.com] On Behalf
Of Julian Kift
Sent: sábado, 06 de julio de 2013 16:58
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Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] R&T Article

Never mind, reading on through the thread Charlie's post made sense of it
all, you are referring to the wide body cars inner fenders.... I still can't
get used to American English!
Julian

From: julian_kift at hotmail.com
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Subject: RE: [DeTomaso] R&T Article
Date: Sat, 6 Jul 2013 07:50:03 -0700




Mike,
Interesting comments, when you say wide fenders formed over a wire clamshell
which ones do you refer to? GT5 (like factory GT4 flares) were a fiberglass
add on with the standard fender being cut to accommodate them. Factory GT5S
fenders were stamped steel.
Julian

> The later cars (i.e. GT5-S) were closer to the 'handmade' side of the 
> spectrum.   Bare chassis were made in small batches by outside contractors

> (mostly Embo) and then provided to Carrozzeria Campana (across the street
from the 
> Maserati factory, in downtown Modena) where they were painted and trimmed.

>  Then they were hauled to the De Tomaso facility on the edge of town, on 
> the outside of the Tangenziale, where the mechanical bits were installed
and 
> the cars were finished off.
> 
> The wide fenders were made by hand using two-piece clamshell wire formers 
> (which have been sitting outside in the rain, rusting, for at least 15-20 
> years, I just saw them again in October), and then grafted to the sides of

> standard Pantera fenders by hand--thus there is a lot of car-to-car
variation 
> (and side-to-side variation on individual cars) as a result.
> 
> But if there is dimensional variation on an early Pantera (like mine has),

> it's normally a result of having had accident/bodywork history (like mine 
> has).
> 
> Mike
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