DeTomaso Mailing List: August 2000, Message #104

Chuck wrote:

>I believe the wheel in question is the "Early" style.  

>>>Right.

>They are in HIGH
demand,
(read high cost !), as only about ~100 -> 125 or so cars got them.

>>>Standard issue on Euro pushbutton cars.  I've read that the first USA cars 
were delivered with these wheels, but then Ford insisted upon removing and 
discarding (!) them and replacing them with Capri wheels?

>Then a different wheel was supplied on the GTS cars.  

>>>Actually, according to Bill Milburn, TWO different wheels were offered.  
Euro GTS cars got the Momo Prototypo, while USA GTS cars got their own, 
special, never-seen-before-or-since wheel which looks just like a Momo, but 
isn't?  At least, it isn't marked as such--perhaps it's a Momo minus the 
markings?

>I don't know if the
euro cars had any other variations.

>>>The two-spoke wheel was also used on the factory Group 4 cars (and 
probably Group 3 too.)  Many photos exist of these wheels in period magazine 
road tests of the very first Panteras....

Mike