Reply to "engine number question"

The engine number has NO relationship to the chassis serial number. There were no blocks that were intended for any particular Pantera. The motors came in truckloads from the U.S. and the next one grabbed off the pile went into the next available car coming down the line. Given unlimited resources to chase serial numbers, you might find that the next block number from yours was originally in a 1969 Ford Galaxie in New York, USA.

Yes- that's an early block number but at this late date it's impossible to trace anything except through Santiago DeTomaso's Info-store in Modena. He has ALL the records for your car including the engine number, whether it came with a radio in Europe and many other things. It will cost you $$$ to find out. Ford had almost nothing to do with building your '72 Euro-GTS. DeTomaso & Co built all the Euro cars on a separate assembly line, and DeTomaso was famous for using anything that remotely fitted.

Panteras were NOT built in sequence, either. There are many stories of cars being pulled off the assembly line for any number of reasons, left alone in a corner and finished up a year or more later than the next sequential serial number. Most extreme case: the 1970 prototype kept in the Factory Museum in Modena had no engine & was missing a few other parts, and was finished up sometime in 1993 so it could be sold.