[DeTomaso] 73 Pantera L dash/floppy a/c vents

Wed Aug 3 15:08:02 EDT 2016

The vents snap in to a metal frame. If you carefully bend the metal ears in a bit they will tighten up.

      From: "audionut at hushmail.com" <audionut at hushmail.com>
 To: detomaso at server.detomasolist.com 
 Sent: Wednesday, August 3, 2016 12:02 PM
 Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] 73 Pantera L dash/floppy a/c vents

  Mike Drew, once again, amazes everyone with his unfathomable quantity
  of Pantera knowledge....!

  Speaking of dashes--

  The a/c vents on #5909 don't stay where I point them for very long.
  Side-to-side works okay, up and down, not.

  Just wondering if anyone has come up with a better solution than I
  have, which has been to wedge in small pieces of the business card of a
  local detailer tossed into my car at the last car event we attended.
  Sent using Hushmail
  On August 3, 2016 at 1:18 AM, "Mike Drew via DeTomaso"
  <detomaso at server.detomasolist.com> wrote:

    In a message dated 8/2/16 21 59 40, paso750 at gmail.com writes:
    GoNancy's '73 is number 5250.
    The date on the door jamb is 4/73 and it has the "right" dash: a
    2-pod. Its
    sister (or brother) car #5249 is the same, and red, too.
    Nancy says that the car was lost for a time in the factory however
    (via the
    VIN code), and was only finished in April.
    It could be that the same thing happened to many of the 2-pod cars
    in '73.
    >>>Well, the car wasn't alosta. It was started in January and
    completed
    in April '73, as were all the other cars built around the same time.
    By
    way of comparison, my car was started and completed in July '72 when
    things
    were really hopping. By 1974, it was taking upwards of six months to
    complete a Pantera.
    Attached is a screen grab of the Ford parts book, which shows three
    different dashboards. This list is quite incomplete however, as off
    the top of my
    head, I can think of at least ten (!) different dash configurations
    used.
    1: Two-pod, rotary wiper/washer switch, two A/C, three defroster
    slots,
    (used on the Euro pushbutton cars, and this is also how the 1971
    cars came
    off the boat in the USA).
    2: Two-pod, rotary wiper/washer switch, three A/C, three defroster
    slots,
    (a third A/C vent was added as part of the big recall performed by
    Stroppe
    etc., and third A/C vents were apparently also added in at the
    production
    facility for awhile).
    3: Two-pod, rotary wiper/washer switch, two A/C, two defroster slots
    (without hold-down rib between the defroster slots)
    4: Two-pod, rotary wiper/washer switch, two A/C, two defroster slots
    (now
    with hold-down rib between the defroster slots)
    5: Two-pod, separate rocker wiper/washer switches, two A/C, two
    defroster
    slots (with hold-down rib between the defroster slots)
    6: Two-pod, separate rocker wiper/washer switches, two A/C, two
    defroster
    slots (with hold-down rib between the defroster slots), with
    upholstered
    wooden block with green dash light in between the A/C registers
    7: Molded single-pod (used on the '73 and '74 USA and Euro L-models)
    8: Molded single-pod, with clock above glovebox (USA GTS only)
    9: Fiberglass single pod, upholstered either in vinyl or alcantara,
    with
    clock above glovebox (Euro GTS and early GT5)
    10: Fiberglass single pod, upholstered in leather, with
    Maserati-style
    A/C vents (later GT5 and GT5-S)
    Besides being incomplete, the Ford parts book is also demonstrably
    wrong
    when it lays out the VINS that received the single-pod dash. Thanks
    to the
    registry, it's possible to see many, many cars that have not been
    modified,
    and don't fit the numbering convention laid out in the parts book.
    FWIWa|.
    Mike

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   The vents snap in to a metal frame. If you carefully bend the metal
   ears in a bit they will tighten up.
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   From: "audionut at hushmail.com" <audionut at hushmail.com>
   To: detomaso at server.detomasolist.com
   Sent: Wednesday, August 3, 2016 12:02 PM
   Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] 73 Pantera L dash/floppy a/c vents
     Mike Drew, once again, amazes everyone with his unfathomable quantity
     of Pantera knowledge....!
     Speaking of dashes--
     The a/c vents on #5909 don't stay where I point them for very long.
     Side-to-side works okay, up and down, not.
     Just wondering if anyone has come up with a better solution than I
     have, which has been to wedge in small pieces of the business card of
   a
     local detailer tossed into my car at the last car event we attended.
     Sent using Hushmail
     On August 3, 2016 at 1:18 AM, "Mike Drew via DeTomaso"
     <[1]detomaso at server.detomasolist.com> wrote:
       In a message dated 8/2/16 21 59 40, [2]paso750 at gmail.com writes:
       GoNancy's '73 is number 5250.
       The date on the door jamb is 4/73 and it has the "right" dash: a
       2-pod. Its
       sister (or brother) car #5249 is the same, and red, too.
       Nancy says that the car was lost for a time in the factory however
       (via the
       VIN code), and was only finished in April.
       It could be that the same thing happened to many of the 2-pod cars
       in '73.
       >>>Well, the car wasn't alosta. It was started in January and
       completed
       in April '73, as were all the other cars built around the same
   time.
       By
       way of comparison, my car was started and completed in July '72
   when
       things
       were really hopping. By 1974, it was taking upwards of six months
   to
       complete a Pantera.
       Attached is a screen grab of the Ford parts book, which shows three
       different dashboards. This list is quite incomplete however, as off
       the top of my
       head, I can think of at least ten (!) different dash configurations
       used.
       1: Two-pod, rotary wiper/washer switch, two A/C, three defroster
       slots,
       (used on the Euro pushbutton cars, and this is also how the 1971
       cars came
       off the boat in the USA).
       2: Two-pod, rotary wiper/washer switch, three A/C, three defroster
       slots,
       (a third A/C vent was added as part of the big recall performed by
       Stroppe
       etc., and third A/C vents were apparently also added in at the
       production
       facility for awhile).
       3: Two-pod, rotary wiper/washer switch, two A/C, two defroster
   slots
       (without hold-down rib between the defroster slots)
       4: Two-pod, rotary wiper/washer switch, two A/C, two defroster
   slots
       (now
       with hold-down rib between the defroster slots)
       5: Two-pod, separate rocker wiper/washer switches, two A/C, two
       defroster
       slots (with hold-down rib between the defroster slots)
       6: Two-pod, separate rocker wiper/washer switches, two A/C, two
       defroster
       slots (with hold-down rib between the defroster slots), with
       upholstered
       wooden block with green dash light in between the A/C registers
       7: Molded single-pod (used on the '73 and '74 USA and Euro
   L-models)
       8: Molded single-pod, with clock above glovebox (USA GTS only)
       9: Fiberglass single pod, upholstered either in vinyl or alcantara,
       with
       clock above glovebox (Euro GTS and early GT5)
       10: Fiberglass single pod, upholstered in leather, with
       Maserati-style
       A/C vents (later GT5 and GT5-S)
       Besides being incomplete, the Ford parts book is also demonstrably
       wrong
       when it lays out the VINS that received the single-pod dash. Thanks
       to the
       registry, it's possible to see many, many cars that have not been
       modified,
       and don't fit the numbering convention laid out in the parts book.
       FWIWa|.
       Mike
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