[DeTomaso] Amazing find!

[Boyd Casey]

Michael, I think your right on with the seats.They look like they are right
off the set of a sci fi flick. They look cool but I'm sure that curve would
be very uncomfortable! They do look cool though. Early space ship look!
Boyd


On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 2:18 PM, <MikeLDrew at aol.com> wrote:

>    In a message dated 3/25/14 7 53 25, terry.himes at jpl.nasa.gov writes:
>
>      Mike, where can I get those seats!
>
>    >>>Yes, they were fairly radical-looking, and presumably not very
>    comfortable, so they didn't make it into production.  The thing is, De
>    Tomaso had already produced quite a few of these (steel, not aluminum)
>    shells.  Not wanting to waste anything, these were upholstered in the
>    conventional manner, and became the factory racing seat as fitted to
>    the Gr4 race Panteras.  A few European owners bought leftovers from the
>    factory to fit to their street cars.
>    Bill Milburn owned a '72 Euro GTS that was the factory Geneva show car;
>    when I was at his house years ago taking a million photos of it, he
>    showed me some other bits and bobs that had come with it, including one
>    of the factory racing seats.  I was amazed to see a row of holes
>    running all the way down the back and the bottom, evenly spaced--a pair
>    of holes for each of the horizontal bars from the prototype design....
>    Mike
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   Michael, I think your right on with the seats.They look like they are
   right off the set of a sci fi flick. They look cool but I'm sure that
   curve would be very uncomfortable! They do look cool though. Early
   space ship look!
   Boyd

   On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 2:18 PM, <[1]MikeLDrew at aol.com> wrote:

      In a message dated 3/25/14 7 53 25, [2]terry.himes at jpl.nasa.gov
   writes:
        Mike, where can I get those seats!

        >>>Yes, they were fairly radical-looking, and presumably not very
        comfortable, so they didn't make it into production.  The thing
     is, De
        Tomaso had already produced quite a few of these (steel, not
     aluminum)
        shells.  Not wanting to waste anything, these were upholstered in
     the
        conventional manner, and became the factory racing seat as fitted
     to
        the Gr4 race Panteras.  A few European owners bought leftovers
     from the
        factory to fit to their street cars.
        Bill Milburn owned a '72 Euro GTS that was the factory Geneva
     show car;
        when I was at his house years ago taking a million photos of it,
     he
        showed me some other bits and bobs that had come with it,
     including one
        of the factory racing seats.  I was amazed to see a row of holes
        running all the way down the back and the bottom, evenly
     spaced--a pair
        of holes for each of the horizontal bars from the prototype
     design....
        Mike
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