[DeTomaso] Si hub carrier - retrofit?

[Charles McCall]

tHANKS - I wasn't all that far. 
I knew he had the white targa and the gold targa (but didn't know that he
sold it) - but I was confused when you said that he converted a GT5-S to Si
specs, and wondered if that was a conversion!



-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Drew [mailto:MikeLDrew at aol.com] 
Sent: lunes, 24 de febrero de 2014 19:52
To: Charles McCall
Cc: Julian Kift; Mike Thomas; De Tomaso List
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Si hub carrier - retrofit?

Charlie,

Simon has a whole pile of Panteras. :)

He has two of the 12 GT5-S Pavesi Targas. You saw the white one at Spa. His
red one was modified by a prior owner with Si-look front and rear bodywork,
so he is continuing the conversion by fitting Si suspension, brakes and
wheels. 

I was wrong--the parts didn't come off the wrecked car, they were just De
Tomaso spares. 

Simon also has a black Si that was also at Spa. 

He used to own the gold Si targa that we saw at Le Mans. He sold that to his
friend Alexander Oet. Alexander actually owned it when we saw it. Simon was
driving his Iso Grifo, the orange one that was parked in the De Tomaso
enclosure. 

Simon bought a yellow Pantera L in Arizona while attending the fun rally,
but he has already sold that to a guy named Olaf Roks. Simon also recently
completed the ground up restoration of a yellow Mangusta. He just bought an
ERA GT40 last week and is looking for a Longchamp. 

Yeah, his life sucks! :)

Mike

Sent from my iPhone

On Feb 24, 2014, at 10:23, Charles McCall <charlesmccall at gmail.com> wrote:

> Simon has a white (86?) GT5-S Pavesi, and a gold SI Pavesi, right? The
Gold
> Si is a conversion and isn't one of the 4 Pavesi Sis? Or has the white car
> been converted "under the skin"? 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: DeTomaso [mailto:detomaso-bounces at poca.com] On Behalf Of Julian Kift
> Sent: lunes, 24 de febrero de 2014 18:52
> To: Mike Thomas; MikeLDrew at aol.com; De Tomaso List
> Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Si hub carrier - retrofit?
> 
> I think that answer is yes, as long as you have an earlier wide body car.
> Simon Vels has a GT5S Pavesi Targa converted to Si specs, he said the
a-arms
> fit, but shocks and sway bar need to be the earlier GT5S (same as std
> Panetra) varaints, not Si.
> 
> The a-arms wouldn't be hard to fabricate (and potentially cheaper) if you
> could get ahold of the hubs. the question is were they unique to the Si or
> borrowed from some other vehicle?
> 
> Julian
> 
>> From: mbefthomas at comcast.net
>> To: MikeLDrew at aol.com; detomaso at poca.com
>> Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2014 08:35:08 -0800
>> Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Si hub carrier - retrofit?
>> 
>> So, if you were to go to a wheel with the appropriate offset, could these
> A
>> arms/rear hub carrier be used on an earlier car?  Not cheap, granted, but
> I
>> would suspect a significant improvement in handling with the longer
> radius.
>> 
>> Mike Thomas
>> VP, POCA
>> VP, Panteras Northwest
>> Yellow '74 #6328
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: DeTomaso [mailto:detomaso-bounces at poca.com] On Behalf Of Mike Drew
>> Sent: Sunday, February 23, 2014 8:59 PM
>> To: detomaso at poca.com
>> Subject: [DeTomaso] Si hub carrier
>> 
>> Here is the hub carrier with the driveshaft and wheel. You can see how
the
>> wheel comprehensively wraps around the hub carrier. 
>> 
>> 
>> 
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