[DeTomaso] Dennis Fugnetti RIP...

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Any idea where? 

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Reliable sources report that Dennis's car now resides in Spain.-Jim

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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:



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

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

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