Oh, everyone knows that answer... 
(just trying to be tough...all weekend long I've been humming Cars tunes). I had to look it up to make sure, but the parts manual lists/numbers all the 289 pieces before the 302---the engine, the bell housing, the jack shaft housing, even the air cleaner for the 289 is numbered first. I assume that that the smogged version of the j-code engine was at least a requirement in California and that Detomaso served all the US with (only) smog pumped motors--would be curious if the non-thermactor version of the heads was ordered for ROW that didn't the smog pumps.
I had to count on my fingers, but #361 would be 8ma1222...If at least, they counted the pusher car...! So maybe they mean 8ma1220, which is also Not on Provama ('1224 is known).
The homologation reference to 8ma1190 is what I think is interesting---Bossman, where did you get the data that 52 cars were built in Germany? At least, the snip that M!ke got from the show and the Silvestro document that Denis found both referencing 8ma1190 would suggest a landmark somehow...Even though there are so many cars found on Provamo, we're still missing a few critical links.
And oh, we aren't trying to be hard, I'm sure its not because we're even picky-- its just that watching a naked Mangusta get built back to something beautiful is so much fun we hate to be left out...! For Wayne's comments about so much research and getting it right by the factory, oh, I suppose compared to most "ground up" DeTomaso restorations, he is right. Its not like guys in the 60's with Ferrari had much of a chance to put on new valve covers, another intake, or rotate their carb....How many of us didn't dream of a Hall body kit on a Pantera and updated suspension, or at least vents in the hood, lathered in chrome---remember all the doo-dad's in the Hall catalog? But if they had come looking for this group, we could have at least saved them the trouble on the linkage for the backwards carb... 
I'm still just dying to drop a line on his facebook and tell him where to get stickers for the toggle switches..! Lee
