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Gentleman,

Long & Newman Enterprises(San Marcos ,Cal) built the GT-5 bodies (2) on Dennis Quella's race car , the David Brown(Canada) body ( a couple went to him and a friend) , the Lew Little Pantera "Funny Car" body is a L&N along with about a dozen others. These bodies were EXACT reproductions of a stock Pantera body shell. The body the molds were pulled from was a 1972-L # THPNML04371 which was the first Pantera I owned back in the 1977 - 1981 years.
I sold the complet car to Larry Cowell who then sold it to George Paliquin(SP) in Orange County California who ,last I heard, had sold the car to Steve Wilkinson ....???? not too sure on the last as I have not spoken to Steve about it.
The quality of these bodies was amazing!! Long & Newman also was the company who built the first GT-5 fiberglass kits back in the early 1980's. Hall Pantera was the first company to begin marketing GT-5 body parts and the all were made by Long & Newman for Gary for about 2 years then he switched to another fiberglass shop to build the parts and, in my opinion, the fit quality then went into the tank at that time.