[DeTomaso] Photo of stock luggage area

[Asa Jay Laughton]

I know I've seen a photo of the spare mounted in that location, but  
Mike is correct, it sits up on a ledge.  I don't know where the photo  
is, but if you browsed enough in the gallery on the POCA web site you  
might stumble on it.  In fact, I have a correct spare and the hold  
down bolt somewhere, and I used to have it mounted.  I no longer  
do.... it's now the perfect spot for my helmet to sit.

Asa  Jay


Quoting Mike Drew via DeTomaso <detomaso at poca.com>:

> In a message dated 9/9/15 20 01 22, michaelsavga at gmail.com writes:
>
>
>> Does anybody have a photo of a stock front boot and rear luggage area.
>> 1660 has the rear insert without a spare tire area and,I recently acquired
>> one with the spare inset.
>> I have an orginal spare, there is no way it would fit in that recess.
>> Lastly, where were the tool kit and air cannister stored, upfront or in
>> the
>> back?
>>
>
>>>> Michael,
>
> You'd be surprised.   The spare tire is a perfect fit in the right rear
> corner of the trunk.   It doesn't fit inside the depression, but  
> rather on top
> of it.   Just drop the trunk into your own car, then rest the spare in
> position and you'll see how perfect it is.
>
> The depression is designed to hold the inflation canister, plus whatever
> else you care to throw in there.   I believe conventionally the tool kit was
> carried up front, but there is no specific 'home' for it as there is for the
> spare.
>
> The early Euro cars carried the spare up front.   Interestingly, they were
> about an inch narrower than the spares fitted to the '72-74 cars, and those
> later spares are too tall to fit up front.   I can only assume that the
> early US cars, which had no specific provisions for the spare in the  
> rear, were
> equipped like the Euro cars?
>
> I presume you have one or more of the 'Brooklands' paperback books on the
> Pantera, which compile period magazine articles.   You can see that in the
> tests of the very early cars, the spare is in the front, while the later cars
> show it in the rear....
>
> Mike


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