DeTomaso Mailing List: May 1997, Message #66
     



From: MikeLDrew@aol.com

Subject: Re: Pantera colors, driving stories

Date: Fri, 2 May 1997 12:55:36 -0400 (EDT)



Capt Mike Drew

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San Francisco, CA  94127



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E-mail:  MikeLDrew@aol.com



Hello again all,



William King wrote:



>Ok, I'm thoroughly confused now ... how many different lime-green like

greens

were available on Panteras ? The only one I've ever seen was the color

of the

limes that get impaled on marguerita glasses around here in Texas ... a

vivid,

tropical, mid-green that IMO looked terrific.



>>>I'm reaching back into the dark, dim recesses of my memory here, as I

don't have any DeTomaso materials available.  From what I recall in reading

the first few pages of the factory parts book (the good one, with the red

GT5-S on the cover), there were perhaps a dozen colors available on the 1971

cars, including no less than three shades of green, called Sea Foam Green,

Medium Green, and, uh, Some Other Green.  The thing is, there's no color

chips in the book, so there's no way for a layman like us to look at a

particular car and identify WHICH particular green is in use.



John's car is a beautiful light green, almost turquoise.  I've got a photo of

it somewhere; maybe when I get home I can scan it in as a JPEG so we can all

see what we're talking about.



Ford streamlined things for 1972, and only Yellow, Tomato Red (yech), White,

Orange, Sky Blue and British Racing Green (double-yech) were available.  Not

black, I don't think.



Somebody wanna grab the book and back me up here with some solid facts?  I'm

flailing a bit.



Come to think of it, I've never seen an Orange Pre-L.  Could that have been

added in late '72?





>On another note, this group has been real useful in helping me

understand the

types of problems Pantera owners face but there's been a shortage of

stories

about great driving experiences, etc. Surely y'all don't let your cars

sit

around in the garage all the time while you wax and polish ...



>>>Despite my relatively few hours of Pantera seat time (since I purchased my

car in Oct '89, stopped driving it in December that same year except for a

couple of quick drives (each of them extremely dramatic), then shipped it off

to Vermont for restoration in Oct '90, I've still got my fair share of tales

to tell, because the decrepit condition of my car was very conducive to

animated story generation.  Unfortunately, I'm busy at work trying to finish

the quarterly before going back to Hawaii again (third time in four weeks,

what a suck job!) so they will have to wait for another day.



Mike



(My other vehicle is a Lockheed C-141 Starlifter-you call, we haul, wars

fought for reasonable prices, (wars won for slightly more), etc. etc.)