[DeTomaso] FW: 73 Pantera L at Cats Exotics

Mike Drew MikeLDrew at aol.com
Wed Aug 3 13:39:58 EDT 2016


Mike,

Did you see my supremely dorky dashboard post from 2 am last night? Two pod dashes used sporadically until 5284 according to the Ford parts book...and the registry confirms they were used regularly through at least April of '73....

Mike

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On Aug 3, 2016, at 10:14, The DeTomaso Registry Guy <detomasoregistry at gmail.com> wrote:

> 
> 
> PNW can inspect this car more closely if anybody on the list is interested.
> It's a two-pod car, but was built 11/72 according to the Marti, and DeTomaso
> stamped it as 1/73.  I had thought all of the two-pods had run their course
> before the "73" model year.  VIN is 4891, so has to be near the switch to
> single-pod.
> 
> Very nice from the looks.
> 
> 
> Mike Thomas
> Pres., Panteras Northwest
> Yellow '74 #6328
> 
> 
> 
> While the later, L dash was phased-in in early 1973 (Jan ?), in March a growing number of cars have been identified as having
> received the early dash, even a couple of April cars received the early dash. 
> 
> Chuck
> 
> 
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