I had the pleasure about 10 years ago when showing my car, to be introduced to an elderly gentleman ( name withheld ) who had worked on the import, engineering, team at Ford and the subsequent dealings with the DeTomaso factory.
He told me really startling facts surrounding our cars and the mark.The first in his many revelations was, the import and marketing team for the "Pantera" while flying from Italy to France were killed when their privet plane crashed in the Alps.This was the first of many of my startled looks and pronouncements " your kidding", but no he wasn't. I said, what did that do to the plans for the introduction of the car? He said the "the whole program was thrown into tail spin a real mess" all the plans,coordination, paperwork everything was lost.
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