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In a message dated 11/7/13 18 22 41, tmshinro@aol.com writes:<BR>
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Wondering if my 73 Euro GTS is in the 73 production numbers.<BR>
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>>>Absolutely not. By definition, your car is a EURO car, and thus never entered the USA as a new car. The Marti reports detail each individual car that was built for Ford for distribution in the USA, and the data was almost assuredly collated when the cars arrived in the USA, rather than in Italy (although I freely admit that's a big guess on my part).<BR>
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Marti has one record for each USA-market car; by analyzing them as a group, he's able to come up with the various statistics we're speaking of now. <BR>
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Remember, Ford ran the Turin and Modena production facilities by 1973, and De Tomaso was merely a customer. He would order cars to satisfy orders in Europe and elsewhere, and his cars would be inserted into the normal production run, and most would be built to different specifications than the normal Ford cars. A buyer (or Euro distributor ordering a car on spec with hopes of selling to a customer eventually) could and would chose normal or vented brakes, normal or Gr3 swaybars, standard or GTS paint scheme/interior, etc. etc. <BR>
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This is why your car differs in numerous details from a normal 'Ford' Pantera, and why I was able to pinpoint it as a Euro GTS the moment I saw it, even before you lifted the hood and showed me all the European build tags.<BR>
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