[DeTomaso] USA Pantera GTS

[The DeTomaso Registry Guy]

Ah...  That would be 7005.

The advert listed it as a 1973.
7005 has a door jam date completion of 5/1974.  
Maybe it got re-titled as a 1973 while in California, long ago.

I was searching by mileage (just within year 1973).
Silly me, believing in the facts stated in an auction.

The photos from the recent auction also are not current,
they are from the MotoExotica advert from 2016, apparently
with the MotoExotica watermark removed, or not present.
And I did not find the hidden registry watermark either.

Here is one more reason for adverts to include the VIN, (and use fresh photos), 
as the indication they have nothing to hide.  Yea I remember the Mecum auction, 
as they frequently auction DeTomaso cars they may have done more harm to 
their business reputation.

Naturally they can only go by what the seller is willing to state, so the 
responsibility really falls on the selling owner, not Mecum.  
But likely the Mecum reputation took a hit anyway.
 
The damage (pics in registry) is from around 1998, pics show damage still in 2012.

Thanks for refreshing my memory Mike, 
I knew the registry had details, I just searched in the wrong year.

Chuck,

The low mileage GTS is a car you know well. It's the one that was rear ended and totaled when almost new, that sat around for 30
years before somebody restored it and then Mecum unscrupulously offered it at numerous auctions as a pristine, unmolested original
time warp car. The registry revealed the truth about it as there are lots of photos of it all smashed up. I think it sold eventually
for six figures (might have been a false sale) but then if it resold for only $55k, that's a really good deal.

Mike

Sent from my iPad

> On May 10, 2018, at 08:17, The DeTomaso Registry Guy <detomasoregistry at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>   I heard from a new registry user about a week ago.
> 
> 
>   He is looking for a Pantera GTS.  I think he is more of a collector
>   than a driver.
> 
> 
>   He was asking for registry access. (without sharing first).
> 
> 
>   Sharing is important, and without it, one does not gain `shared'
>   access.
> 
>   I've written all about this, and it appears in numerous places,
>   including the FAQs pages.
> 
> 
>   A person shares, THEN they gain shared-viewing access.  Plain & simple.
> 
> 
>   So once he understood, he asked about where to look for content, as he
>   had yet to
> 
>   accumulate photos of cars he has already reviewed.  He knows better
>   now.
> 
> 
>   I pointed him in the direction of my "Where cars can be found", with
>   the suggestion he tour
> 
>   website like ebay, etc from this list.
> 
> 
>   He was already searching ebay... and found not one, but at least TWO
>   cars in the completed-auction section.
> 
> 
>   Both were "new" to the registry, so he has shared, and is now consumed
>   by reviewing all the content the registry has to offer.
> 
>   (Well over 200,000 images!  Yea this might take him a little while -
>   grin.)
> 
> 
>   Anyway, both cars did >not< have the VIN in the advert, making
>   identification more difficult.
> 
>   He has entered one, now identified as Unknown1345, a silver + Black USA
>   GTS.  Did anyone
> 
>   happen to see this car auction scroll by on eBay ?  Thoughts etc ?  Did
>   it sell, or is it available ?
> 
>   I think this is a Jack Sharkey auction.
> 
> 
>   The next car is even more unusual.  Entered as Unknown1346, it is a GTS
>   Red + Black, with only 790 miles ?
> 
>   It seems to have sold for only $55K ?!?!?   This seems way WAY too low
>   a price given current values.
> 
> 
>   As I leave it to the team of Registry assistants to vacuum up eBay
>   content, I did not even see either
> 
>   of these two interesting auctions myself.
> 
> 
>   Did anyone else notice either of these two ?
> 
> 
>   Chuck
> 
>   (Photos attached, see the registry for more)
> 
> 
> 
>   The De Tomaso Registry Guy
> 
>   [1]http://www.detomasoregistry.org/Members/ProvaMoMemMain.asp
> 
> References
> 
>   1. http://www.detomasoregistry.org/Members/ProvaMoMemMain.asp
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