DeTomaso Mailing List: August 97, Message #156
     



From: Kevin Ternes <jkternes@mindspring.com>

Subject: Re: Drove my first Pantera today -followup

Date: Tue, 05 Aug 1997 21:38:52 -0400



I wrote:

> This car is a 72.  I couldn't find any rust.

> The dealer claims it is a Group 4 car.  It has the super wide

> tires/flares and the wing.  Can anyone tell me how can I tell

> if it's a Group 4 car for sure?



Thanks to Don, Shane, Mike, Curt, JDeRyke, et al for setting me

straight.  And an extra thanks for not slammin' the newbie.



The car I was looking at isn't even close to what

you guys described.  No roll cage, no racing seats/harness, 

no plastic windows, etc., etc., and it was street legal with a

recent MO emissions sticker on it.  Now I can go back to the

dealer with a better idea of what the red rocket is worth.



It just goes to show that it always pays to do your homework.

Listen to this:



I'm not a fan of late model Mustangs because I'm kinda disappointed

in the styling so I don't know as much about them as I should.

But one did catch my eye just a few weeks ago when I was on another used

car lot.  A 96 Cobra with a plastic hood, great looking wheels and side

exit exhaust.  I took it for a drive and it was pretty nice.  Noticeably

faster than the GT that I had driven.  But the salesman (and sales

manager) told me that it was a Cobra-R.  Ding-ding-ding-ding-ding!



Sure I'm interested because I'm looking for something exotic and a

Cobra-R might fit the bill but I'm really suspicious because I knew that

Ford only put out a few hundred of those R's and these guys were only

asking five thousand dollars too much for the car.  I go home and I'm on

the net for less than 10 minutes before I find out that Ford didn't even

build Cobra-R's in 96!  Gimmie a break.  That Mustang was an ordinary

Cobra with Cobra-R wheels, an after market hood and some kind of

SVO/Borla exhaust.  Really nice car but no Cobra-R.



-kt



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J. Kevin Ternes

mailto:jkternes@mindspring.com



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