[DeTomaso] Pantera included in Classic Motorsports web article

Wed Apr 1 16:49:39 EDT 2020

And the non-US cars didn’t have them 😎

Thomas

> 1 apr. 2020 kl. 22:25 skrev Julian Kift <julian_kift at hotmail.com>:
> 
>    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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>   From: DeTomaso <detomaso-bounces at server.detomasolist.com> on behalf of
>   Joseph F Byrd, Jr <byrdjf at embarqmail.com>
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>   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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>   From: DeTomaso <detomaso-bounces at server.detomasolist.com> On Behalf Of
>   richard at richardgreenblum.com
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>   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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