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It sounds to me reading into the quoted paragraph that this car has a factory chasis ..maybe not purchased new but certainly supplied at some point from the factory ... as Doug said i dont think this is possible to replicate the way the holes a punched in the panels ... it had to be done at the factory and sold as a lightweight chassis and a privateer assembled on their own.[b]Superb De Tomaso Pantera group 4. This car has a very interesting history, sold new by the french importer Franco Britannic, in 1971. The current owner bought the car in 1979 from the Sedax (which replaced the Franco Britannic). The car was already prepared in group 4 specifications with many period factory group 4 parts (today unavailable) as the aluminium bonnets and doors, the special front and rear lower arms, the special hubs, bearings and half shatfs, front and rear sway bars mounted on balls, the special crank gear, the twin fuel tanks (80 liters on the right side, 40 liters on the left side), ... But the most stunning feature on this car is that it is equipped with the lightweight drilled chassis, a unique feature seen on the factory group 4 (only 14 units built) with holes drilled in the chassis, on the gearbox center console, behind the seats .... It is the only non factory Pantera group 4 we have ever seen with this lightweight chassis. Unfortunately we don't have any documented history prior 1979, but it is quite obvious that if this car had been professionnaly upgraded to an expensive group 4 specification, it was to race it. "