[DeTomaso] Pushbutton 1382 Turning 50

[Asa Jay Laughton]

$3,200 sounds about right for what a set of Wilkinson or Pantera East 
Campy clones would have been at the time.  I know I was looking pretty 
hard at those kinds of wheels, but never pulled the trigger.

Asa Jay

Asa Jay Laughton - W7TSC, MSgt, USAFR, Retired
Spokane County ARES-RACES-ACS EC/RO
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On 3/26/2021 08:52, Sean Korb wrote:
> I came across something very old and very odd yesterday going through
> my stamps (who mails letters?), a list of what appears to be prices on
> a small slip of paper
>
> 1000 Tires
> 3200 Wheels
> 5000 Cleveland
> 8000 ZF
>
> It's a weird list, a very high price for Pantera wheels but the ZF
> identified everything else as very much Pantera related. I thought
> about it for half the day, trying to imagine how such a list would
> come about.  Then I remembered, in 2000 I started looking for a
> Pantera somewhat idly at first, and then more seriously.  One came up
> for sale outside of Charlotte for $6k and I went down to check it out.
> It was missing a motor and transmission, wheels and brakes and severe
> crash damage on the rear left side, and I believe an available NOS
> replacement fender but I don't really recall.  It also had a "story"
> about where the title could be obtained.
>
> I declined to purchase that one but clearly I made a budget to compare
> how much that one would cost vs how much a project that already had
> those items would cost. There was another one in Texas for $15k that
> needed work, and one in Michigan in boxes but complete for $12k.
> Those prices seem crazy now thinking back, but the wheel price doesn't
> really seem so out of line if I wanted a really nice set or maybe I
> was imagining 10 inch Minilites.
>
> I'm glad I decided against traveling and just bought 1382 form a nice
> gentleman up the street in Youngsville, NC.  I didn't even haggle over
> the price, I just cashed in my miniscule state employees retirement
> and got a matching loan from the credit union and bought it.
>
> Anyway its build date was April 1971 so happy birthday!  I turn 55 in
> a few days as well and I can't imagine a better present to re-gift to
> myself every year :)
>
> sean