Reply to "First Mangusta"

I have no idea why the glass roof was not offered in later cars. The owner of the Dino Martin car's name is Steve Shuler. He lives in Australia but used to reside in San Clemente. We did a story on him and his car years ago in PI. He races a hemi-powered home built special called the Hagemeister Special at the Monterey Historics each year. Really fine person.
The Fox Mangusta has approximately 500 HP and the owner is preparing an even more powerful motor for the car. It has quite a few structural components to strengthen the car including a sub-frame under the passenger compartment.
The seats are already pretty low but I could imagine making them thinner and bolting them to the floor instead of using tracks. The pedals could go forward with a lot of fabrication. Is that why you wanted a glass roof? To poke your head out? Being only 5'5", I finally appreciated being short when I got into DeTomaso cars. I have watched tall men struggle to get into these cars and considered myself lucky to be short (but there are few other instances).