Peter,
All of the cars I brought in or assembled are considered AmeriSport cars. The difference is some of the very first cars did not carry the 1A9 correct vin. Since this is the second car assembled, it did not have that vin. Originally it carried a California vin with a KT in it and it is the only car with that designation. If you look at the motor plate, it has an AS1 stamped in which says it was the first stamped plate for AmeriSport. Don't remember why the engine number was so high now---most likely it was pre-stamped for another customer but???
Bill van Ess is incorrect with his information. I never had any deal with George about the cars. We did try in 1987 to find a working solution but it never materialized.
The first 3 were red, blue and white but I do not remember which 2 vins were blue and white. If you say 90 was blue then that sounds good to me. The red one was 9381 and was the first S body in the country. I believe the first assembled S wide body car stateside was 9379 which came directly into my shop for conversion.
Regardless, this is a rare car for sure. The fact that is was one of just a hand full assembled in the states with factory support only makes it more rare and unique. If there are any questions that the factory was not 100% behind the AmeriSport program back then, I still have miles of telex docs that would dispute this.
AmeriSport was supported by Detomaso---all other cars were direct imports purchased through the Detomaso's Europe dealers..