[DeTomaso] Pantera included in Classic Motorsports web article
Julian Kift
julian_kift at hotmail.com
Wed Apr 1 16:25:29 EDT 2020
L = Lusso (luxury), but you can't blame the Italians the impact bumper was US mandated! Given the constraints they had I think they did a pretty decent job, have you see the ugly accouterments on a '74 E-type jag or Lamborghini Countach?
Julian
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Had a thought . . .
Is there an Italian curse word for "ugly bumpers" that starts in "L" and thus the birth of the L model distignation?
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I’d like to know what “more luxury-minded accouterments” I didn’t get in my GTS!
Richard
Austin, TX
> On Apr 1, 2020, at 14:22, Sean Korb <spkorb at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> J. G. has nice things to say about Craig Brody's Pantera From the May
> 2014 issue
> https://classicmotorsports.com/articles/five-unique-ford-powered-cars/
>
> "The De Tomaso Pantera hit the U.S. in 1971, perhaps just a bit ahead
> of its time. Available right off the showroom floor at Lincoln Mercury
> dealerships, the Italian-built Pantera’s debut year was fraught with
> quality-control flaws and difficult marketing. Never mind that it was
> a cutting-edge design for the time. One of the earliest sports cars to
> employ a monocoque, unibody construction, the early Pantera
> nonetheless languished in showrooms and was hobbled with questions of
> quality. Elvis Presley famously shot his Pantera when it once failed
> to start.
>
> Improvements came quickly, though, and quality control increased. By
> 1975–when Ford stopped officially importing it–the Pantera was a
> top-shelf supercar. Sadly, one of the things that some say keeps it
> from true world-class status is also one of the things that makes it
> wonderful: the Ford 351 engine parked behind the driver, nestled
> between the two huge rear wheel arches. That blue-collar powerplant
> may not have the pedigree of an overhead-cam Italian mill, but open
> the throttle anywhere north of idle, and the sound–and thrust–it
> provides is unimpeachable.
>
> Craig Brody’s 1974 GTS model (there was also an L model with a few
> more luxury-minded accouterments) is a true survivor, untouched aside
> from a few scratch repairs and normal maintenance. A few spiderwebs
> are starting to appear through some of the original paint, but the
> interior looks like a press photo from 1974. Brody reports that the
> driving experience is thoroughly modern as well.
>
> Vision out back is somewhat restricted by the inherent shape, but
> thanks to rack-and-pinion steering and a rear weight bias, steering
> takes only a modest hand. There are even power windows and air
> conditioning for those steamier days."
>
>
> --
> Sean Korb spkorb at gmail.com http://spkorb.org (est 1994) "Computers are
> useless. They can only give you answers." -P. Picasso
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L = Lusso (luxury), but you can't blame the Italians the impact bumper
was US mandated! Given the constraints they had I think they did a
pretty decent job, have you see the ugly accouterments on a '74 E-type
jag or Lamborghini Countach?
Julian
__________________________________________________________________
From: DeTomaso <detomaso-bounces at server.detomasolist.com> on behalf of
Joseph F Byrd, Jr <byrdjf at embarqmail.com>
Sent: Wednesday, April 1, 2020 1:13 PM
Cc: 'DeTomaso Mail List' <detomaso at server.detomasolist.com>
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Pantera included in Classic Motorsports web
article
Had a thought . . .
Is there an Italian curse word for "ugly bumpers" that starts in "L"
and thus the birth of the L model distignation?
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richard at richardgreenblum.com
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Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Pantera included in Classic Motorsports web
article
I'd like to know what "more luxury-minded accouterments" I didn't get
in my GTS!
Richard
Austin, TX
> On Apr 1, 2020, at 14:22, Sean Korb <spkorb at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> J. G. has nice things to say about Craig Brody's Pantera From the
May
> 2014 issue
>
[1]https://classicmotorsports.com/articles/five-unique-ford-powered-car
s/
>
> "The De Tomaso Pantera hit the U.S. in 1971, perhaps just a bit ahead
> of its time. Available right off the showroom floor at Lincoln
Mercury
> dealerships, the Italian-built Pantera's debut year was fraught with
> quality-control flaws and difficult marketing. Never mind that it was
> a cutting-edge design for the time. One of the earliest sports cars
to
> employ a monocoque, unibody construction, the early Pantera
> nonetheless languished in showrooms and was hobbled with questions of
> quality. Elvis Presley famously shot his Pantera when it once failed
> to start.
>
> Improvements came quickly, though, and quality control increased. By
> 1975-when Ford stopped officially importing it-the Pantera was a
> top-shelf supercar. Sadly, one of the things that some say keeps it
> from true world-class status is also one of the things that makes it
> wonderful: the Ford 351 engine parked behind the driver, nestled
> between the two huge rear wheel arches. That blue-collar powerplant
> may not have the pedigree of an overhead-cam Italian mill, but open
> the throttle anywhere north of idle, and the sound-and thrust-it
> provides is unimpeachable.
>
> Craig Brody's 1974 GTS model (there was also an L model with a few
> more luxury-minded accouterments) is a true survivor, untouched aside
> from a few scratch repairs and normal maintenance. A few spiderwebs
> are starting to appear through some of the original paint, but the
> interior looks like a press photo from 1974. Brody reports that the
> driving experience is thoroughly modern as well.
>
> Vision out back is somewhat restricted by the inherent shape, but
> thanks to rack-and-pinion steering and a rear weight bias, steering
> takes only a modest hand. There are even power windows and air
> conditioning for those steamier days."
>
>
> --
> Sean Korb spkorb at gmail.com [2]http://spkorb.org (est 1994) "Computers
are
> useless. They can only give you answers." -P. Picasso
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