[DeTomaso] Hewland in a Pantera

[jderyke at aol.com]

The only exception I know of to what Les said was Warren Tope's non-factory Pantera racer that used a Hewland. It was pretty blatant given that he competed against Hugh Kleinpeter's Pantera- that was required by IMSA to run a ZF. It was a big deal at the time because a Hewland's gear ratios could easily be changed for different tracks while the ZF's took hours to change and available ratios were few. Kleinpeter was the ZF rep for the eastern U.S. and even then he couldn't get the ratios he needed. There were several protests over Tope's car but nothing ever came of them. Kleinpeter said it was because Tope's father was a Ford vice-president and at the time, Ford was still in all kinds of racing.... 43 yr old dirty laundry.
 

-----Original Message-----
From: L GRAY <tipo874a at msn.com>
To: Julian Kift <julian_kift at hotmail.com>; detomaso <detomaso at poca.com>
Sent: Sun, Feb 2, 2014 10:31 am
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Hewland in a Pantera




     Julian,
          The factory Group 4 race cars were required to use the ZF transaxle. I'm pretty sure that the Adler's Group-C car used a Hewland originally.
                            
                                                                Les Gray


From: julian_kift at hotmail.com
To: detomaso at poca.com
Date: Sun, 2 Feb 2014 09:43:06 -0800
Subject: [DeTomaso] Hewland in a Pantera


I came across a Ford to Hewland LG bell housing, and got wondering did all the GP4 and other racers of the period ran ZF's or did any use a Hewland?


If my memory serves me I have seen a photo of a Hewland in a Pantera at some point.


Julian

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