[DeTomaso] 5,639 Panteras 71-74 ??

[Vinh Ly]

I just got a reply this morning from Mirko Guolo at RS Corse in Modena for
information on my Euro #7445.  He wrote that he could send me the info for
€ 110,00.  My initial take was that it was a little on the high side.  Has
anyone else received copies from RS Corse and been satisfied with the
quality of information that they received?

Thanks,
Vinh Ly
'75 Euro GTS #7445



On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 2:20 AM, <MikeLDrew at aol.com> wrote:

>
> In a message dated 11/4/13 18 51 10, michaelsavga at gmail.com writes:
>
>
>
> Not when almost all other marques have lists that are date, time, color,
> option specific with a signature of the final quality check foreman.
> It would be nice to know and not speculate which is all that any of us can
> do at present.
>
>
> >>>According to Ford records, my car was one of 2,131 Panteras produced
> for Ford during 1972.  I assume that's the 1972 model (not calendar) year.
> It was one of 445 produced in July, one of 558 cars painted yellow in 1972,
> and one of 123 that were ordered from the same DSO.  It was released for
> sale on 3/15/1973, serialized on 3/30/73 (whatever that means) and sold for
> the first time on 8/7/73 by Merriam Motors in Wallingford, CT.
>
> It actually entered the USA in Baltimore, on a ship named Mare-By-Sea,
> having been shipped from Italy on August 5th, 1972.
>
> This kind of data is available for every single Pantera sold by Ford in
> the USA simply by ordering a Marti report.  Although the data is normally
> VIN-specific, simply by getting one report for each model year, additive
> numbers can be established to show the total number of Panteras imported
> (probably not counting the pre-production prototypes etc. used for
> crash-testing and federal certification, although I know the VINS of those
> cars because I have the testing reports).  In fact, by getting Marti
> reports for a car of each color, from each year, it would be very easy to
> know exactly how many cars (both by year, and for all four years) were
> produced in each color, etc.  All you'd have to do is ask them for the
> information.
>
> And as I said before, all the records are available for the non-US-market
> and post-Ford cars from De Tomaso in Modena.  While they don't have any
> statistical information, they have everything you would want to know (to
> include very specific information on the various modified engines that many
> cars were equipped with) for each individual car.  Invoices,
> correspondence, engine build data sheets, etc...it's all there.  I've seen
> them with my own eyes.
>
> Don't speculate that records don't exist just because you haven't
> attempted to access them, and journalists have been too lazy to do so....
>
> Mike
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