DeTomaso Mailing List: August 97, Message #46
     



From: dave.williams@chaos.lrk.ar.us (Dave Williams)

Subject: Re: turn signals/steering racks

Date: Fri, 01 Aug 1997 17:20:00 -0500



-> I would think

-> if Pantera steering racks were plentiful in U.S. junkyards that we'd

-> all have heard about it by now.



 I agree.  Surely someone would have noticed while they were pirating

the turn signal switch from some hapless Capri.  <grin>





-> Actually, David, a question:  I've seen the later-style Capri turn

-> signal switches, with their flash-to-pass switch, and always wondered

-> if they could somehow be adapted to the Pantera, say, to flash

-> driving lights or something. Your thoughts?



 It's been a few years since I've had two side by side, so that'll be an

honest "I don't know."  The stalk is the same.  The later switch has a

big aluminum bracket that supports the steering column trim, which the

early Capris didn't use.  They had a tapped hole and a bracket for a

much smaller plastic switch cover.



 The simplest thing might be to cruise the junkyards and look.  Capris

are fairly rare now, but the local U-Pull-It had two '74s and a '71 a

few months ago.



 Flash-to-pass was easy to implement because the '73 and up Capris used

a relay to wire the headlamps in with the ignition.  I always thought

that was a nice idea.  Hmm.  The ignition thing might've been a result

of the flash-to-pass.  I never thought of it that way.



====dave.williams@chaos.lrk.ar.us========================DoD#978=======

  can you help me...help me get out of this place?...slow sedation...

ain't my style, ain't my pace...giving me a number...NINE, SEVEN, EIGHT

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