DeTomaso Mailing List: December 97, Message #24
     



From: 	MikeLDrew@aol.com

Subject: Re:  Re: "95 Nouva Pantera"

Date: 	Tue, 2 Dec 1997 23:47:21 +0000



Bo wrote:



>Are you talking about the Pantera built from rougly 1990 to 1996,

looking like the previous ones but completely re-designed and built

by carbon-fibre and steel, housing a 5 L engine (302 cui?)?

If so, my information tells me 38 were made, and the last one

from spring 1996, was a yellow convertible owned by a french guy.  He

was at the Italy meeting 1996.



>>>I meant to respond to the list, and accidently sent my first response

directly to Bo.



I believe Bo's numbers here are correct.  In thinking about it, I realized

that the number 29 that I was quoted was probably the first year's production

total, not the TOTAL production total!



Stephane Poux, the French DeTomaso importer (who owned the black car in

Italy, and sold the Yellow Targa to its owner) told me that most of the

Pantera 200 cars had the standard Dash-2 Pantera ZF gearbox, while the last

few were fitted with a new 6-speed ZF gearbox.



That makes me wonder:  Would this new gearbox fit in the old Pantera?  It it

available, and how expensive would it be?



Mike