DeTomaso Mailing List: November 2000, Message #8

>>> <MikeLDrew@aol.com> 11/01/00 07:41AM >>>
>>>Remember, your GT5-S has a girly-man low-compression soft truck engine, 
while your '72 has a nice snappy high-compression big-cam wonder.  THAT is a 
big source of the noise difference too, methinks.

***Maybe, maybe not. This car was built with the "sport" option, the original paperwork lists 350hp. At did come from the factory with a Holley, so at least that part is correct. As has been discussed on this list before, though, many of DeTomaso's claims have to be taken with a shaker of salt... Regardless, there's a little bald guy with a pointy tail,  a goatee and a TPR t-shirt sitting on my shoulder, whispering "stroke it, baby!" in my ear. Maybe next year, if finances allow it....

Charlie McCall
1972 DeTomaso Pantera #3847 (for sale)
1985 DeTomaso Pantera GT5-S #9375
"Raising Pantera Awareness across Europe"
http://briefcase.yahoo.com/gt5s_1985