<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:12pt">We all have our ways of enjoying our cars and are entitled to do whatever we please obviously.<br><br>There is a quantitative way to measure the world's perception of our beloved Detomaso cars...sales prices.<br><br>Many of you equate the fixation or study of sales prices with cold greed, sterile investment, or outright snobbery.<br><br>It is, in actuality, the easiest way to determine what the world (including us) thinks of Detomaso.<br><br>A simple observation here is that cosmetically stock cars are bringing strong money. It appears that even the slightest cosmetic modification detracts in some way from the sales prices.<br><br>Even a simple change detracts from this ultimate fact and will potentially devalue the cars.<br><br>I have no problem with modifications but we still need to realize
that we all have started with one of the most perfectly styled exotics (including the original wheels) ever created.<br><br>I have a suspicion that some of you long time owners don't want to believe this.<br><br>LS<br><br><br><br><br><div><span><br></span></div><div> </div><div><span class="yui_3_2_0_2_132994546520443" style="background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);font-style:italic;font-family:symbol;"><br><br><br></span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-size:10pt;"><div><font size="6"><span style="font-size:14pt;"><i><span style="color:#000000;"><b>central </b></span></i></span></font></div><div><i><b>wines-spirits est 1934<br></b></i></div><div><i><b><br></b></i></div><div><i><b>625 e street nw<br></b></i></div><div><i><b>washington, dc 20004</b></i></div><div><i><b><br></b></i></div><div><i><b><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank"
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Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <hr size="1"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Stephen Nelson <steve@snclocks.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> detomaso@poca.com <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Thursday, January 30, 2014 1:47 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [DeTomaso] Autoweek online Mention<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container"><br><div id="yiv2933969980"><style>
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<div class="yiv2933969980MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy;">I would think the best thing to do is acknowledge
that we might not get any monetary benefit to all those mods we put into the
cars. And, in fact, if we start with a highly original car, we will be far
less likely to get any monetary benefit. But, is that why we modify the cars?
To make money? If so, well, then we ain’t all that bright.</span></font></div>
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<div class="yiv2933969980MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy;">Flip side, given the surprisingly poor
quality of many of the mods I have seen on cars I looked at when finding 5332 –
including 5332 – the reality is that all too many modified cars are
poorly done and really don’t deserve any premium – in fact –
they deserve significant devaluation.</span></font></div>
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<div class="yiv2933969980MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy;">Do great work, and drive these great cars!</span></font></div>
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[mailto:detomaso-bounces@poca.com] <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">On Behalf
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<b><span style="font-weight:bold;">Sent:</span></b> Thursday, January 30, 2014
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<h2 style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:9.0pt;margin-left:0in;vertical-align:baseline;outline:0px;"><b><font color="black" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black;font-weight:normal;">DeTomaso Pantera</span></font></b></h2>
<div style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:9.8pt;vertical-align:baseline;outline:0px;"><font color="black" face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:6.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:black;">At Mecum, <a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="http://www.mecum.com/auctions/lot_detail.cfm?LOT_ID=FL0114-172060&entryRow=2893" style="outline:0px;"><font color="#bb3100"><span style="color:#BB3100;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;text-decoration:none;">you'd have paid $49,500</span></font></a> to take home a 1974
example of the increasingly desirable Pantera. At Barrett-Jackson, a 1971 car <a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="http://www.barrett-jackson.com/application/onlinesubmission/lotdetails.aspx?ln=1650&aid=525" style="outline:0px;"><font color="#bb3100"><span style="color:#BB3100;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;text-decoration:none;">would have set you back $48,400</span></font></a>. The difference is
originality -- the early B-J car is tuned, to put it mildly, with flashy
five-spokes and a nitrous-oxide system. Depending on your perspective, this is
either a huge improvement or an unacceptable desecration. Compare that to the
“highly original” Mecum car.</span></font></div>
<div style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:9.8pt;vertical-align:baseline;outline:0px;"><b style="outline:0px;"><font color="black" face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:6.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;font-weight:bold;">Winner:</span></font></b><font color="black" face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:6.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:black;"> We'd vote for the unmolested car at Mecum, but that's
personal preference at play. This one's inconclusive.</span></font></div>
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