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<DIV>Nice car indeed </DIV>
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<DIV>In a message dated 12/21/2013 4:49:32 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
MikeLDrew@aol.com writes:</DIV>
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FAMILY="SANSSERIF"><BR>In a message dated 12/21/13 13 09 15, guson@home.se
writes:<BR><BR><BR>
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FAMILY="SANSSERIF">Nice pictures indeed. I noticed that it has
round edge front bumpers and flat edge rear bumpers and they are blacked
out. Like most Panteras I assume this one has had some updates
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face=Geneva FAMILY="SANSSERIF"><BR>>>>I suspect the front bumpers
were changed.<BR>
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FAMILY="SANSSERIF"><BR>>Some things in the pictures I haven't seen
before. Are these typical of PB cars?<BR><BR>>Rear deck lid badge
says de Tomaso, not Powered by Ford or the Detomaso V8 badge. Never
saw that badge before.</FONT><FONT color=#000000 size=2 face=Geneva
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face=Geneva FAMILY="SANSSERIF"><BR>>>>Nor have I.<BR><BR>
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FAMILY="SANSSERIF">>Hand brake is located on the driver's side next to
the console forward of the seat. I wish mine was located
there.</FONT><FONT color=#000000 size=2 face=Geneva
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face=Geneva FAMILY="SANSSERIF"><BR>>>>That's an interesting
modification. I don't think it was original.<BR><BR>
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FAMILY="SANSSERIF">>What's the push/pull knob next to the driver's seat
near the rear console? Manual choke?</FONT><FONT color=#000000 size=2
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size=2 face=Geneva FAMILY="SANSSERIF"><BR>>>>I think you're exactly
right.<BR><BR>
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FAMILY="SANSSERIF">>What's the pull handle next to the panel light dimmer
knob on the instrument console? Emergency front hood
release?</FONT><FONT color=#000000 size=2 face=Geneva
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face=Geneva FAMILY="SANSSERIF"><BR>>>>I don't think that's a
push/pull switch. It has a flat paddle shape, and I think it goes up and
down. It looks a little bit like the four-way turn signal switch that
was fitted to the earliest RHD Pantera known. That is probably the
original turn signal switch this car came with, and it was retrofitted with a
standard column-mounted switch later? That's just a guess
though.<BR><BR><BR>
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FAMILY="SANSSERIF">>The round Isis crest next to the Pantera script above
the glove box looks like the emblem that is on my Momo steering wheel (that
I've never seen another like it)</FONT><FONT color=#000000 size=2
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size=2 face=Geneva FAMILY="SANSSERIF"><BR>>>>That is a stock steering
wheel emblem liberated from the remains of the rubber pad. It has gold
trim. On this car, a wheel center emblem has been kluged into the steel
wheel. Yech!<BR><BR>
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FAMILY="SANSSERIF">>One slot wheels in front and two slot wheels in
back.<BR>High placement of the Pantera and Detomaso script on the rear panel
(looks unbalanced)</FONT><FONT color=#000000 size=2 face=Geneva
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face=Geneva FAMILY="SANSSERIF"><BR>>>>They are replacements; the
original early cars like this came with extremely fine, delicate emblems, much
smaller than the later style we are accustomed to. Those looked okay in
this location, whereas these don't.<BR><BR>
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FAMILY="SANSSERIF">>Hood vents? I assume these didn't come from the
factory.</FONT><FONT color=#000000 size=2 face=Geneva
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face=Geneva FAMILY="SANSSERIF"><BR>>>>True dat.<BR><BR>
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FAMILY="SANSSERIF">>Has three color tail light lenses.<BR>Shoulder
harness belts mount on the flat part of the bulkhead and not in the raised
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FAMILY="SANSSERIF"><BR>>>>Yes, there is a box welded to the firewall
that accomodates the seat belt mounting bolts.<BR><BR>These early cars are
filled with unusual features that differed from the production
cars....<BR><BR>Mike<BR></FONT><FONT color=#000000 size=2 face=Geneva
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