[DeTomaso] Dennis Fugnetti RIP...

Tom Shinrock tmshinro at aol.com
Wed Jan 29 18:40:19 EST 2020


I bought the book Panteras For the Road shortly after I bought my Pantera which needed to be restored.  It was the picture of his car that inspired me to go with red paint and blacked out trim.
It was a long mental struggle to go yellow or red (I like both).  

Tom5186


-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Drew via DeTomaso <detomaso at server.detomasolist.com>
To: De Tomaso Forum <detomaso at server.detomasolist.com>
Sent: Wed, Jan 29, 2020 3:14 pm
Subject: [DeTomaso] Dennis Fugnetti RIP...

  All,

  Those who were around in the 80s may remember the name Dennis Fugnetti.
    He was a well-known fine arts automotive photographer in Southern
  California, who owned an exquisite twin-turbo Pantera. He produced
  several posters featuring his car (one inexplicably including stylized
  representations of a polished Mangusta wheel?), and his car was
  featured on the cover and inside the first really fine book on the
  marque, Panteras For The Road by Henry Rasmussen:

  [cid:ABB23469-668F-4040-BBCB-D55370791076-L0-001]
  [cid:C26B6DC1-4F99-4A95-8849-A4C416ACC38F-L0-001]
  [cid:EAC00BF7-F951-40B3-AAD5-1FBB3B1C97F3-L0-001]
  [cid:7CF1991B-0F9C-4ED5-BB89-DD0E5954A82F-L0-001]

  Jeff Maxwell informed me the other day that Dennis has passed away. His
  business lives on, shared with his daughter:

  [1]https://www.fugnettiimages.com/page/about2

  I only met him once, at Concorso Italiano long after he sold his
  Pantera. He was much younger than I was expecting him to be, not all
  that much older than me. He was also extremely friendly and personable.
  My condolences to his family for what has to have been an untimely
  passing. :(

  I once found his old Pantera rotting at a used car lot in Monterey,
  sitting outdoors. This was in the early 1990s. The beautiful polished
  engine looked like crap as the elements had taken their
  toll--everything was corroded.  I took it for a test drive and it ran
  like crap too.  The turbos weren't dialed in so it ran terribly, then
  spectacularly overheated and blew its water all over the place. We
  barely made it back to the dealer.  It had been a fine car when he
  owned it, so it's sad the subsequent owner or owners really let it fall
  apart.

  It was later bought by a Silicon Valley guy who retrofitted a standard
  motor, then quickly tired of it and sold it to buy a Ferrari 308 from
  the divorcing Lee Majors and Farrah Fawcett-Majors. I then lost touch
  with it. I think it's still floating around in So-Cal?

  Spare Dennis a thought each time you admire his timeless poster, which
  many, many of us have hanging on our walls.....

  Mike
  Sent from my iPad

References

  1. https://www.fugnettiimages.com/page/about2
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   I bought the book Panteras For the Road shortly after I bought my
   Pantera which needed to be restored.  It was the picture of his car
   that inspired me to go with red paint and blacked out trim.
   It was a long mental struggle to go yellow or red (I like both).
   Tom
   5186
   -----Original Message-----
   From: Mike Drew via DeTomaso <detomaso at server.detomasolist.com>
   To: De Tomaso Forum <detomaso at server.detomasolist.com>
   Sent: Wed, Jan 29, 2020 3:14 pm
   Subject: [DeTomaso] Dennis Fugnetti RIP...
     All,
     Those who were around in the 80s may remember the name Dennis
   Fugnetti.
       He was a well-known fine arts automotive photographer in Southern
     California, who owned an exquisite twin-turbo Pantera. He produced
     several posters featuring his car (one inexplicably including
   stylized
     representations of a polished Mangusta wheel?), and his car was
     featured on the cover and inside the first really fine book on the
     marque, Panteras For The Road by Henry Rasmussen:
     [cid:ABB23469-668F-4040-BBCB-D55370791076-L0-001]
     [cid:C26B6DC1-4F99-4A95-8849-A4C416ACC38F-L0-001]
     [cid:EAC00BF7-F951-40B3-AAD5-1FBB3B1C97F3-L0-001]
     [cid:7CF1991B-0F9C-4ED5-BB89-DD0E5954A82F-L0-001]
     Jeff Maxwell informed me the other day that Dennis has passed away.
   His
     business lives on, shared with his daughter:
     [1][1]https://www.fugnettiimages.com/page/about2
     I only met him once, at Concorso Italiano long after he sold his
     Pantera. He was much younger than I was expecting him to be, not all
     that much older than me. He was also extremely friendly and
   personable.
     My condolences to his family for what has to have been an untimely
     passing. :(
     I once found his old Pantera rotting at a used car lot in Monterey,
     sitting outdoors. This was in the early 1990s. The beautiful polished
     engine looked like crap as the elements had taken their
     toll--everything was corroded.  I took it for a test drive and it ran
     like crap too.  The turbos weren't dialed in so it ran terribly, then
     spectacularly overheated and blew its water all over the place. We
     barely made it back to the dealer.  It had been a fine car when he
     owned it, so it's sad the subsequent owner or owners really let it
   fall
     apart.
     It was later bought by a Silicon Valley guy who retrofitted a
   standard
     motor, then quickly tired of it and sold it to buy a Ferrari 308 from
     the divorcing Lee Majors and Farrah Fawcett-Majors. I then lost touch
     with it. I think it's still floating around in So-Cal?
     Spare Dennis a thought each time you admire his timeless poster,
   which
     many, many of us have hanging on our walls.....
     Mike
     Sent from my iPad
   References
     1. [2]https://www.fugnettiimages.com/page/about2
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