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

[Mike Drew]

I have a similar issue in one of my Sciroccos. I decided I liked the vents at a certain angle, but they drooped towards the floor. I used a tiny dab of black RTV silicone to semi-permanently position them. It's all but invisible and quite effective. 

Mike

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On Aug 3, 2016, at 12:02, audionut at hushmail.com wrote:

>   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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