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

[Asa Jay Laughton]

I  think all you need is a little bit of friction.  One suggestion  
that might not be noticeable is to use a small piece of Velcro (the  
fuzzy side), stuck to the ends of the vent to provide enough friction  
that that stay put where you position them.  Note, this isn't using  
both pieces of Velcro, just the fuzzy side and just on the vent or the  
opening to take up that space your business card is currently.

Hope that helps. :)
Asa  Jay

Quoting audionut at hushmail.com:

> 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"  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 “lost”.   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.
>
> FWIW….
>
> Mike


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