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Shelby purchased all of the Pantera directly through the factory. I placed the color choices personally because all of the S cars were shipped directly to AmeriSport, there were 6 or 7 total. His personal GTS ended up in Georgia, and it still looks exactly the same as it left my shop. The red Turbo GTS ended up in New Zealand. That car was quite a monster when it boosted. It had a lot of Turbo lag until they spun up. Not a friendly driver that much I can tell you but fast. The white S car in the show intended to have a supercharged Windsor in it which was going to be our production motor for 1989. Unfortunately the program never got funded because of the Black Monday stock market crash. I took that car with a stock Windsor engine that came in it out to California to Shelby. Because the car was never EPA, they used it as a drone to save it from The Crushers. Unfortunately that happened in August of 88 I believe and the first Viper prototype was shown in January at the Detroit car show in 1989. This was hardly the development car for anything that had to do with the Viper. The V10 was still under development when the Prototype was shown in 89. As far as the p500 history, there's a complete other side to that story which I was told personally by Carroll Shelby in his office at Chrysler along with some other fun facts. There's always two sides to the pancake. As far as the down tipped wing and the appearance of that particular white-on-white Pantera, that was our best seller from that time period. I had many orders for the white on white combination. The car had all the original AmeriSport items as it left my shop including the VIN tag which shows up very briefly in the show. There's also footage of my engine assembler a very quick shot of myself and one of my employees that was pulled from some news footage from the AmeriSport History video. A lot of the still shots in the show were also pulled from my DVD. Most of the work on that particular car I did personally back then because it was Shelby's car. I remember it clearly. That is a quick real history of this white S Pantera.