Reply to "Shelby Pantera wanted, please advise"

rockyMember

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Carroll Smith reported to Ford that the Pantera COULD NOT be made into a race car and everything died except the four Gp4 Panteras.

I've seen this written down (on this forum and elsewhere), but never in anything official - althought I must note, I haven't read any of Carroll Shelby's bio, or most of the DeTomaso books.

How do we know this, and what weaknesses did he identify on the cars?

It would be fascinating to know. I may have already solved the problems (if one of his issues was that it needed powdercoated suspension, and the other was that the rear bumper stuck too far out!

).

Rocky

2/25/166:31 AM

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