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

Tue Nov 5 14:01:38 EST 2013

Along the same lines, I finally went for it and got the Shelby World
Registry.

It was just under $200 with shipping.

It has all the Shelby's (up to the 200x GT500's), the new Ford GT's, the
original GT40's, the Safir GT40's, the SPF GT40's, etc. etc.

Huge book with lots of great information.

Plus, you get to see a picture of *your *car and a small description. They
have tried hard to have the descriptions standardized, which is nice.
Which reminds me... I have to send them an update in time for the new
registry coming out.

It does give names and locations for the known owners, but that's it. No
phone numbers, no addresses.

I think it'd be great to have something similar for the Panteras and for
that, Chuck's registry is damned close!

FWIW,
Kirby

On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 12:14 PM, michael at michaelshortt.com <
michaelsavga at gmail.com> wrote:

> What he didn't mention was that he went there (to Italy) and find his info.
>
> 6,000 people aren't going to do that, or have the resources or supplied
> resources as well as the time.
>
> If I had the information, I would post it, I can not think of a better
> sales or recruitment tool for a certificate business or registry than
> to be able to state that you have THE unequivocal list of XXXX cars. Can
> place each and every car in time and space
> and verify that your car is #XXXX out of XXXX of which XXXX remain.
>
> Of course that would imply some business acumen and marketing ability.
>
> We group buy brakes, lights, wheels, etc.   Why not Birth Certificates,
>
> I'll step up and offer a reasonable fee ( equal to a Mustang Marti report
> ), but as a part of that, I want to know
> how many there were in total, year by year, model by model.
>
> and I dispute that somebody had to go through dusty old records to know
> how many GTOs, Countachs, Tigers or Cobras were built.
> I'd say that their manufacturers kept  records in a normal manner ( no
> steno pads ).
>
> And as we discussed on the 72 Pushbutton,  ( built in 71 and titled in 72
> ) , everybody knows that left over 69 Shelby's were 70 Shelbys, etc.
> and that some, if not a great many 74 L's were built in 1973.
>
> This information doesn't make them any less of a car, in fact, given the
> improvements between the first 300 pushbutton cars and the
> 72 pushbutton that came over 2,000 cars later, I'd rather have the later
> one, you can't possibly think that the only thing left unchanged were the
> doors.
>
> Michael
>
>
>
> On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 12:39 PM, Gray Gregory <rgg at gregorycook.com> wrote:
>
>>  Exactly! As Mike has pointed out the same factory records exist for
>> DeTomaso as with the other marques you mention. There’s no state secrets
>> here it’s just that nobody has put forth the effort to compile them into
>> one easily accessible place. The Shelby info you quoted is a perfect
>> example. Those numbers didn’t magically appear. Someone did a lot of
>> digging through old paper records to compile all that info and tally it
>> into total cars produced and then break that number down into the various
>> sub totals you listed.
>>
>>
>>
>> Maybe someday someone will be so motivated to do that with the DeTomaso
>> records?
>>
>>
>>
>> Gray
>>
>>
>>
>> *From:* DeTomaso [mailto:detomaso-bounces at poca.com] *On Behalf Of *
>> shawkins777 at comcast.net
>> *Sent:* Tuesday, November 05, 2013 8:45 AM
>> *Cc:* detomaso at poca.com
>>
>> *Subject:* Re: [DeTomaso] 5,639 Panteras 71-74 ??
>>
>>
>>
>> I would guess it's because no one has wanted to know bad enough to do the
>> research.
>>
>> Steve
>>  ------------------------------
>>
>> *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:
>>
>>
>> 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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