[DeTomaso] im looking for a spair tire for my 1972 pantera or ideal what will fit in trunk

[marshall smith]

I was going to comment on this stream also. My front trunk clearly gets much hotter than the rear trunk. No lavatory luggage ever gets loaded in the front.

Marshall
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On Wed, 8/10/16, Julian Kift <julian_kift at hotmail.com> wrote:

 Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] im looking for a spair tire for my 1972 pantera or ideal what will fit in trunk
 To: "falconjackpam at sbcglobal.net" <falconjackpam at sbcglobal.net>, "MikeLDrew at aol.com" <MikeLDrew at aol.com>, "detomaso at server.detomasolist.com" <detomaso at server.detomasolist.com>
 Date: Wednesday, August 10, 2016, 7:30 AM
 
    Mike,
 
    All good advice
 until I got to the last paragraph, I would caution
    even keeping a can of fix a flat
 in the front trunk unless it is behind
    the battery or against the
 bulkhead. One Vegas Fun Rally I had a can
    explode in the front trunk of my
 car, fortunately no damage, but the
    sticky mess made the trunk
 unusable for the rest of the trip and took
    a good weekend too clean out.
 
    Julian
  
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    Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] im
 looking for a spair tire for my 1972 pantera
    or ideal what will fit in
 trunk
 
    Jack (I assume
 that's your name?)
    Your
 e-mail came through completely blank, but your subject line
 pretty
    well lays out your
 question.
    Before getting down
 to specifics, let me suggest something perhaps you
    hadn't considered.
    Let's say you're driving
 down the road and BOOM, you get a flat tire.
    You
    pull over, pull out your jack and
 your spare, install the spare,
    inflate
    it, lower the car back onto the
 road....
    ...and then
 what?   Your rare, exotic and expensive factory
 wheel and
    flat
    tire (or equally expensive and
 rare aftermarket wheel and flat tire)
    are
    sitting there on the shoulder of
 the road.   What do you plan to do
    with them?
    
 It's much too big to fit into the car!
    You're not going to abandon
 them, so no matter what, you're going to
    need
    to call a tow
 truck.   So given that's the case, why even
 bother
    carrying a
    spare?
    Having said that, if you are
 really wanting a spare (perhaps for
    concours),
    they are rare and expensive,
 coveted by the Mustang restoration guys.
    The
    spare used in the Pantera was the
 same one used on late 1960s and early
    1970s performance Mustangs,
 including the '69 and '70 Shelby, Boss 302,
    Boss
    429, 428 CJ cars with fold down
 rear seat and trunk-mounted batteries.
    There is one available for sale
 on Ebay right now for $995 plus $36.85
    shipping (buy it now price), and
 another one in much better shape
    available for
    auction with a starting price of
 $395 (but the reserve is likely much
    higher).
    Personally I would never trust a
 40-year-old collapsible spare tire in
    any
    circumstances, so I would view
 that as a display item only.
    Others have found that
 lightweight spacesaver tires from later-model
    Fords
    (Crown Vics etc.) will fit, and
 they can be had from junkyards for a
    fraction of the cost.
    But personally, I wouldn't
 bother.   I would carry a can of fix-a-flat
    (note that some of those use
 PROPANE as the inflator, and are highly
    explosive;
    more than one Pantera has
 suffered extensive damage from an explosion,
    so
    read the label carefully, and
 keep it in the front trunk!), and a AAA
    card....
    Mike
 
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