[DeTomaso] What Do You Tell People??

[Sean Korb]

I'm with Mike, though many times it does become a conversation and that is best.

For people that imagine it as an American car, I tell them the truth:
The Pantera was designed and built in Italy by Ghia and Vignale.  Ford
made a deal with DeTomaso to supply him with motors and Ford would
receive a portion of the vehicles built to sell in the US.  They were
sold at Lincoln-Mercury dealers from 1971 to 1974 and continued to be
imported to the US throughout the '70s and '80s.

If they seem in good humour about it, I can just go on and on :)  But
if I've already bored them to death, I think that's the essential
information.  Pretty much what I tell people even if they only ask
"What's that?"

sean

On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 9:09 PM,  <MikeLDrew at aol.com> wrote:
>
> In a message dated 3/13/13 17 56 9, lashdeep at yahoo.com writes:
>
>
>> Out of pure curiosity...when someone walks up and looks at your Pantera
>> with a comment similar to  "cool, it's an American Countach..."
>>
>> What do you respond with?
>>
>
>>>>A simple, polite, gentle correction, a one-sentence synopsis of the car.
>   If they want to know more, I'll then speak with them for as long as they
> would like, but I won't bludgeon them with information if they are only
> casually curious.
>
> But I won't allow their misconceptions to go unchallenged either....
>
> Mike
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Sean Korb spkorb at spkorb.org http://www.spkorb.org
'65,'68 Mustangs,'68 Cougar,'78 R100/7,'60 Metro,'59 A35,'71 Pantera #1382
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