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

Tue Nov 5 07:22:00 EST 2013

That's about the same ballpark price ( depends upon detail) as a Marti
Report for a Ford Mustang.

http://www.martiauto.com/secure/report_chart.cfm

Michael Shortt
On Nov 5, 2013 6:38 AM, "Vinh Ly" <vinh.d.ly at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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