Reply to "GT5-S crash rebuild"

Thank you LS.---The owner is a great guy.

OK Rapid, here's a bit of history that has not been told.

In 1987, we started designing a new look for the car. We did a dozen or so paper sketches several of which I took to the factory to show them. The jest of showing them the concept art was always OMG! don't let Mr. Detomaso see those---he will get very angry. My question back was always Why?---there was allot more said. All I can say today is the people who were working the factory in those days were fantastic and very supportive of the AmeriSport project and my efforts personally.

During this time, the factory, through there primary trim company, was working on a totally new interior design. They showed me the results which were not so good so I asked them to please let me work on the inside so I could develop a look that will compliment the final outside re-design.

We played with many designs in an effort to keep the original Pantera GT5-S feel but to hopefully make the car look like it belonged to the late 80s---which is easer said than done. Here is one of the early rendering concept sketches of the cars back end from that time period. I wanted a new wing look so we played with several designs---this was one which did not go anywhere.