DeTomaso Mailing List: September 99, Message #95

To All,

While visiting Mike Daileys great website, I saw the picture for the Playboy 
pink Pantera given to the young lady in the early '70's.  We had a thread 
about that just a few weeks ago and it just so happens that I found out a few 
things about it quite by accident.

I drove the Pantera to Pep Boys in Albuquerque, New Mexico and had half the 
shop clear out to take a look.  Two of the guys there would hardly let me go. 
 One of them stated he had once worked at a shop in California that prepared 
a pink Pantera for a Playboy playmate of the year.  They were the ones who 
painted the Pantera from it's original color to pink. The shop he worked for 
was called "PMS Specialties" or something along those lines (interesting 
choice of letters, huh?).  PMS stood for Pantera Mustang Shelby Specialties.  
When I joined POCA in 1987, I seem to recall advertising in the newsletters 
for a company called "PMS".  Could this be the same people who prepared the 
original pink Pantera?

Jim Demick
New Mexico