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

[shawkins777 at comcast.net]

I would guess it's because no one has wanted to know bad enough to do the research. 

Steve 

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From: "michael at michaelshortt.com" <michaelsavga at gmail.com> 
To: "Mike Drew" <MikeLDrew at aol.com>, detomaso at poca.com 
Sent: Tuesday, November 5, 2013 6:14:50 AM 
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] 5,639 Panteras 71-74 ?? 



Why are you so angry? 

Unless of course it was a pushbutton 1972 pre-L. 
(Out of sequence serial number, built one year, side aside and titled the next year 1,600 cars later) 

Or one of TWO known cars in the 8,000 series of numbers which may mean that 998 serials numbers were skipped. 

Or unless it was a two pod dash 73. 

Or one with a flat deck lid. 

Or a 2000 series chassis built in 1973. 

Or built by Amerisport, etc. 

So if all of this is known, why is it some sort of state secret? 

Exactly how many Panteras were built in total and if possible by year and or model? 

I think a lot of us would like to have a definitive answer and not be told to go look it up because the respodent also does not know. Like asking my Mom for help with Trig homework. 

You know, like 39 Ferrari GTOs, 

Lamborghini Countach 
2,042 

Sunbeam Tigers - 7,083 

Shelby Cobras 
Leaf Spring Cobras:260 ci engine Street Cars - 62 
260 ci engine Factory Works racers - 4 
260 ci engine Factory-prepared racers - 1 
260 ci engine Independently-prepared racers - 7 
260 ci engine Dragonsnake - 1 
Total 260 ci engine production - 75 
289 ci engine Street Cars - 453 
289 ci engine Factory Works racers:-Standard Competition - 2- 
Sebring race cars - 3-LeMans race cars - 2-LeMans replica racers - 3- 
427 Prototype Flip-Top - 1- 
289 FIA cars - 5-Daytona Coupes - 
6-USSRC Roadsters - 6 
Total 289 ci Works race cars - 28 
289 ci engine Factory-prepared competition cars:-Standard Competition - 2-LeMans prototype - 1-LeMans replicas - 3- 
USRRC roadsters - 5 
Total Factory prepared competition cars - 11 
289 ci engine Independently prepared competition cars - 21 
289 ci engine Dragonsnakes - 4 
289 ci engine bare chassis for Mercer Cobra - 1 
289 ci engine Willment Racing Coupe - 1 
289 ci engine COB/COX Street Cars - 59 
289 ci engine COB/COX Race Cars - 2 
Total 289 ci engine Cobra - 580 
Total Leaf Spring Cobra 260 & 289 cars - 655 
Coil Spring Cobras: 
427 Street Cars - 260 
427 Prototype Competition Roadsters - 2 
427 Production Competition Roadsters - 19 
427 Semi-Competition Roadsters (S/C) - 31 
427 Daytona Super Coupe - 1 
427 Chassis only - 3 
289 COB/COX Cars - 27 
(427 Paramount Film Cars - 5, have been removed from the original Cobra totals) 
Total Coil Spring Cobra - 343 
GRAND TOTAL Leaf and Coil spring cars - 998 

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



In a message dated 11/4/13 18 51 10, michaelsavga at gmail.com writes: 



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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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