DeTomaso Mailing List: March 1997, Message #162
     



From: "Ted A. Mitchell" <tmitch@gte.net>

Subject: Re: POCA/PI reference materials

Date: Thu, 20 Mar 1997 20:09:29 -0800



I was the one to instigate the pull out tech bulletins when I was the

Master Mechanic.  They were keyed to the Shop Manual, so they could be

inserted in the same section.  After I quit as MM, the practice was

discontinued.  POCA sold a complete Shop Manual, with the Tech Service

Bulletins and all my Tech "Letters" in a special binder for a number of

years.  As far as I know, they are still available from the POCA Store.



Ted

http://home1.gte.net/tmitch/pe.htm     tmitch@gte.net



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> From: MikeLDrew@aol.com

> To: detomaso@wgate.com

> Subject: POCA/PI reference materials

> Date: Thursday, March 20, 1997 6:50 PM

>

>

> 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