DeTomaso Mailing List: January 00, Message #69

Zak, FWIW:

A friend in Stockholm imported a Sbarro-Pantera in the 80's from Germany
with funny flares. When he weighed the car, to get his import papers for
road use, it was very heavy. He wasn't allowed to put it on the road since
it was so much heavier compared to it's original papers (which had the
weight of a standard Pantera).
He had to rebuild it to a slim body to reduce the weight.
He thought this car had been used to get the molds.

I don't think any Swiss people is on the list but I've meet Swiss DeTomaso
owners a couple of times since -90 and no Sbarro cars has turned up or has
been on discussion. I'll meet them in Denmark in a couple of months and can
ask around (but please remind me later!).

/Bjorn Carlsson, Sweden


> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Zak McGregor [SMTP:zapcs@mail.dial-up.net]
> Sent:	Monday, January 03, 2000 12:38 AM
> To:	Multiple recipients of list
> Subject:	Lurking and Sbarro
> 
> Greetings and salutations to you all!
> 
> Oh, and best of wishes for the new year too.
> 
> On the subject of lurking, I've been lurking here for about 2 or 2.5 years
> - this is probably my first post, I guess that would be some sorta record
> :)
> 
> By way of introduction, I live in South Africa, 28 years old, male, design
> web sites for a living, non-Pantera owner (but fan), I own an 82 Alfa
> GTV6.
> 
> I maintain for a hobby a motoring-related website, at
> http://www.zap.co.za/zgas 
> 
> I read somewhere about a car made by Franco Sbarro in Switzerland (Franco
> Sbarro of the hubless wheel fame) which was a GT40 replica, but apparently
> based on the Pantera. Does anyone here have any more info on this? I
> normally *detest* replicas, but Sbarro was directly involved with the Lola
> T70 and if I recall correctly that was the basis for the GT40, so there is
> a credible lineage there. In fact (glancing at my brochure from Sbarro),
> the street version of the GT40 seems to have had his hand in it too.
> 
> Thanks guys for an entertaining forum. And Foncool, I can't agree more
> about non-standard wings, skirts etc etc...
> 
> Ciao all
> 
> Zak McGregor
> 
> 
> 
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