[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
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From: Mike Drew via DeTomaso <detomaso at server.detomasolist.com>
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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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