quote:Originally posted by Chuck Melton:
Doug,
It is true that the USA-GTS came with the same 7" front and 8" rear Campys as the rest of the USA cars.
It was/is real common for an owner to move the rear 8" wide Campy to the front, and add the then pseudo-over-the-counter 10" wide Campys to the rear.
Besides improving handling, it just looks better.
I think Gary Hall was one of the people that imported "tons" of 10" Campys, while some Ford dealership parts guys knew and would order/provide these wheels (not listed in the orange Ford parts book), other dealerships preferred to provide blank-stares instead.
I suspect you met the later type.
I don't think there was a Hall Pantera in 1974. My parts dealer simply didn't know where to get the wheels from. All he had was the US parts book.
To tell you the truth. I don't remember ever seeing a US GTS WITHOUT 10" Campys?
As far as blank stares? Still get them. One would think that everyone spoke Klingon here? Must be a Mexican thing? Americans just don't want to acknowledge they understand anything else but US English. To me that's just an indication that they are even too stupid to even understand that even just a little?
