DeTomaso Mailing List: March 1997, Message #159
     



From: MikeLDrew@aol.com

Subject: POCA/PI reference materials

Date: Thu, 20 Mar 1997 21:50:46 -0500 (EST)



All,



One of the Dan Joneses wrote:



>>>Also, now that I'm getting serious about this, I need to gather some

reference material.  I'm thinking about getting a bunch of the past

Pantera International newsletters.  I assume POCA has copies of its

past newsletters too.  Any comments or should I just buy them all?





Dan,



I purchased all available back issues of PI.  They're pretty neat, and

there's some good info in there, but there's a lot of REALLY BAD IDEAS there

too.  They might have thought they were good at the time, but now we can see

they were mistaken.



POCA quarterlies varied greatly in quality from year to year.  If you're just

looking for nostalgia, they're pretty good to have.  No technical info to be

found, though.



POCA used to publish technical information in a seperate pull-out that was

included in the newsletter; in the early '90's this practice was

discontinued, and now tech info appears in the newsletter proper.  I don't

know for sure, but it's possible that these pull-out tech info pages are

still available from the POCA store.



For sure, you must get a shop manual and the 14 Technical Service Bulletins

(updates to the shop manual) and also the factory parts book (not the orange

Ford book, which is useless, but rather the modern book with the red GT-5S on

the cover.)  These are available from the POCA store, or from the vendors.



(What is this, my fourth posting to the list today?  Mike Drew, get a

life!!!!!!)



See ya!



Mike