quote:Originally posted by Detonator:
From what I have seen and read, the vin / records and the fact that Detmaso would build cars line them up and sort of pick one for a vin plate, and not starting in any order leaves one thinking, its possible you could have the first one built and they just pulled it out from the back of the factory at a later date and slapped a vin on it.
What's the difference? Numbering them is just an accounting thing. It's just relatively recently that the first or last was marketable because of selling techniques of promoting individual cars.
Everybody acts like DT never made cars before the Pantera.
What changed were the volumes of cars that needed to be produced.
That's really where Ford entered into the picture with their expertise and their financing.
I think it was Vignale (coach) that they bought who had an assembly line.
I do find it interesting that Ford just walked away from everything when the project ended and as far as I know they still own Vignale which is now just a company that exists only on paper...somewhere in a void in cyberspace?