quote:Originally posted by kimmosch:
Have you got some more information to share about the Maggiora period?
It has been written Maggiora and Embo used the same body panel molds because De Tomaso owned the molds. So all Panteras from chassis #9001 up were all made from the same molds. Maggiora however utilized poor quality steel which was also too thin in the chassis section. The nature of the recall was to reinforce the chassis sections of the Panteras with Maggiora built coaches, but the recall was at the owners expense.
The Panteras built with Maggiora coaches were assembled in the mid-1976 to mid-1978 time frame. One oddity of the Maggiora built coaches, some have the narrow license plate recess sized for US/Canadian license plates, others have the wider recess sized for European license plates.
Peter Havlik is the expert, he may have more information on the subject.