[DeTomaso] Trans Am Pantera

[Mike Drew]

Guys,

Just found the video and did a screen grab. 99.9% sure it's the Warren Tope car. 


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Note that the car has been wrecked--the right fender and flare are damaged and the decklid looks like a pretzel. 

This car was wrecked again and again and again during his ownership, apparently. By the time he was done with it, the whole back end had been destroyed and replaced with a tubular structure. When it was sold to Europe a few years ago, what wasn't wrecked was rusted to the point of translucency. It has since been restored although they didn't attempt to replicate the Gr4-specific chassis details.

 I suspect they used another Pantera as a donor car. Whether they transferred the identity of the Gr4 to the street car or used bits of the street car to rebuild the race car, I don't know, but I dimly recall that the center chassis was original when I saw it last, so I suspect it is the latter....

Mike

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> On Nov 7, 2016, at 7:28 PM, L GRAY <tipo874a at msn.com> wrote:
> 
> That would indeed probably be Warren's Trans Am car. 
> 
> Leslie A. Gray
> 
>> On Nov 7, 2016, at 7:12 PM, "jtaphorn at kingwoodcable.com" <jtaphorn at kingwoodcable.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Well, without watching the video, I suspect Warren Tope.  Although, Chucks been around long enough to know that one!
>> 
>> JT
>> 
>> 
>> ---- Charles Engles <cengles at cox.net> wrote: 
>> 
>> =============
>> Dear Mike,
>> 
>> 
>>             Amazing.  I never heard nor knew that a Pantera ever ran in TransAm.  This sounds like a job for Mike Drew.   Only he can solve this apparent warping of TransAm and Pantera racing history.  
>> 
>> 
>>                         Warmest regards,  Chuck Engles
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: DeTomaso [mailto:detomaso-bounces at server.detomasolist.com] On Behalf Of Michael Cox
>> Sent: Monday, November 07, 2016 8:43 PM
>> To: detomaso at server.detomasolist.com
>> Subject: [DeTomaso] Trans Am Pantera
>> 
>> SpeedTV ran a special titled "The History of the Trans Am Series" and I found a copy on YouTube. About 29 minutes in there is a picture of a Pantera, I've never seen this car anywhere else. Looks like iit may have backed in to a wall earlier in the race.[image: Inline image 1]
>> 
>>  --mike
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