Reply to "History of Panteras Assembled from Vignale Coaches"

OYE! Brain hurts!

There isn't going to be a test on this is there? Yikes?

So "around April of 1972", the Panteras were then all Fords and "the Detomaso's" were no longer involved at all until Ford ended the program at chassis #7380?

Do you have any idea which facility the picture that I posted was? I'm guessing Via Jacopo Peri, 68, when Ford is completely in charge? That was formerly the Vignale plant?

I'm still trying to figure out Italian street addresses and get the concept of where these things are/were, i.e., in the "city" or out in "the countryside"?

I hope all can bear with my puny US concept "American brain thinking"? It's getting there but still stuck in the muck.



Ray Geddes was the former Ford rep at the Shelby American Airport Facility in LA also.

It is said it was he who got the "427 'lightweight' GT40" engines for Shelby and put the 427MR's back into the remaining 427 Cobra street cars that for a short run had become 428 Q engines.

I'm thinking in rank, he is only second to Iaccoca and #1 in these special "high performance Ford programs"?