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

Lets put it this way.

The Government assigned and approved a VIN for Carrol Shelby and called it a year regardless of when it was completed. Shelby called a Cobra they had another kit car company make and called it their own. They assigned it a continuation number and called it a 1965.

If the Italian government assigned the VIN and date in 1971 or 1972 then it would have a build date of 1971 or 1972. If the government didn't, and the DeTomaso factory gets around to building the car in 1972 and they both call it a 1972, how can it be trully considered a 1971?

If I stamp a serial number on a tube a steel in 1971, sit it in my garage for 10 years, get approval to build a car out of it in 1981, it would be a 1981 car.

On the other hand if I do it they way it worked out for shelby, I get the documentation, I get the approval from the government to build a car to speck, in 1971, and assign a serial number to a year, then it doesn't matter when I build the car. The government says it's a 1971.