[DeTomaso] Photo of stock luggage area

[Thomas Tornblom]

Den 2015-09-10 09:32, Tomas Gunnarsson skrev:
>     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?

F78-14, so appears to be 14"

Total width of rim is 205 mm, edge-edge.

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>     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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