[DeTomaso] 5-0 Pantera

[Michael Shortt]

Nice Car.

I have a question, IF the first 75 cars were the handmade push button models 
as written in several books, why is the serial number 1365?  No doubt that 
this car is the real deal, just curious about the serial numbers, I have 
read the first three were crash tested, so it stands to reason that the 
first cars for customers would have been 1004, 1005, etc.
Mine is 1660, and I had always thought that it was OK to assume that it was 
the 657th car made.
Now, even if yours was the very last of the 75 pushbutton cars, and if they 
used sequential numbers,
1290 being the first and yours being 1365, assuming that 1287, 1288, 1289 
were the crashed models,
I now have the 370th car built?

Does anybody have a true record of serial numbers and if so, what's the real 
deal?

Inquiring minds want to know.


Michael Shortt
Savannah, GA
1971  ( June )  #1660

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Yogi, Dennis" <dyogi at honolulu.gov>
To: <detomaso at realbig.com>
Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2006 8:17 PM
Subject: [DeTomaso] 5-0 Pantera


>I found and am purchasing the 1971 red pushbutton Pantera from the
> Hawaii 5-0 episode "Death Wish On Tantalus Mountain" which guest starred
> Ricardo Montalban.
>
> You can see more on my web site:  http://home.hawaii.rr.com/dyogi/
>
> Follow the Hawaii 5-0 Pantera link
>
> Aloha,
>
> Dennis
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