DeTomaso Mailing List: February 1997, Message #61
     



From: Pantera International <panteras@fia.net>

Subject: Re: Panteras in Oregon

Date: Fri, 7 Feb 1997 20:35:03 -0800 (PST)



At 03:42 PM 2/7/97 PST, you wrote:

>1/6/97  Is there anybody out there who can look at a Pantera in Portland

>with me....it has undercoating all over the bottom (original?) and up into

>the engine bay,  I would like a list of what to look for in

>originality....there are paint bubbles on a bondo'd lower passenger corner

>of the door(used knuckles) water stuck in door filth? #4666? late72early73

>L.........engine # match? other serial #'s?

>

>John Gogol

>503-246-8723

>

>Dear John,

I will get a reply to you shortly. We have Pantera friends in Portland that

can help you  and a lot of friends in Seattle too. I will have an answer for

you by Monday. I don't like what you've written already. How much do they

want for this car? If it has rust, you will lose money even if the GIVE IT

TO YOU! Linda and I took a 35,000$ bath on a car that supposedly had no rust

and even fooled a big shot body man! Numbers matching is not as critical as

a Corvette or Mopar would be, in other words it doesn't seem to affect the

price one way or the other unless you are a purist. There is a registry to

verify serial numbers, I don't have it with me at the moment, I keep it at

work. The area where the bondo is, is a common rusting point. I hope you are

in the bodyshop business if you touch this one. Undercoating sounds

suspicious. Call Jerry Sackett at (714) 744-1398 9-5 M-F PST. Send me a

picture too. GIF or JPEG is fine.

Let me know what happens.

Your amigo,

Dave Adler

Dave & Linda Adler

PANTERA International

Voice:  714-848-6674

Fax:       714-843-5851