[DeTomaso] Photo of stock luggage area

[Tomas Gunnarsson]

The GT5 may differ from the norm as they have a dropped battery from the
factory. IIRC the older spare is 14" and I don't think it fits over the
bigger brakes your car has. What size is your spare wheel Thomas?
 
Tomas

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 	  	 From: Thomas Törnblom [tipo874 at gmail.com]
Sent: 10/9/2015 8:47:52 AM
To: detomaso at poca.com
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Photo of stock luggage area 

Are you saying the inflatable spare for later cars doesn't fit the front
trunk? 

When I bought my 1984 GT the spare was in the front, and there is no 
evidence that it had ever been installed in the rear tub. There is no 
fastening provisions and there were no visible wear on the carpet that 
suggests it had been installed in the rear. 

Thomas 

Den 2015-09-10 05:39, Mike Drew via DeTomaso skrev: 
> 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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   The GT5 may differ from the norm as they have a dropped battery from
   the factory. IIRC the older spare is 14" and I don't think it fits over
   the bigger brakes your car has. What size is your spare wheel Thomas?



   Tomas
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       From: Thomas Toernblom [tipo874 at gmail.com]
   Sent: 10/9/2015 8:47:52 AM
   To: detomaso at poca.com
   Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Photo of stock luggage area
   Are you saying the inflatable spare for later cars doesn't fit the
   front
   trunk?
   When I bought my 1984 GT the spare was in the front, and there is no
   evidence that it had ever been installed in the rear tub. There is no
   fastening provisions and there were no visible wear on the carpet that
   suggests it had been installed in the rear.
   Thomas
   Den 2015-09-10 05:39, Mike Drew via DeTomaso skrev:
   > 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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