Reply to "Pantera #1020 - Pushbutton on Ebay in Portugal"

I don't think a "Manufactured date" has any relevance to anything. In the USA cars are issued S#'s based on year an approval. This has absolutely no correlation to what other countries have done.

For instance Carrol Shelby put his "continuation" S#'s on cars built in the last 20 years (some not even by him). Cars were built in the 80's or what ever but titled as 1960's based on the title scam he had going on and even the manufacture date would have been irrelevant. Only 1965 relevance was the amount of cars allowed to produce in a loophole carried on for years because he could not full fill his orders.

Older chassis laying around and completed from parts titled by Italy in 1972 and that were manufactured and produced in 1972 were 1972 cars. Followers may like to call them 1971 cars but that doesn't make them so. They were not built in 1971, they were not titled in 1971, Italy calls them 1972 cars and the only people calling them 1971 cars are the followers who want to change history. The serial numbers may not fit the chart some one put together but if they were manufactured and titled in 1972 DeTomaso calls them a 1972 and I call them a 1972 automobile.