This was a practice De Tomaso (and I'm sure many others) used to keep track of hand-fitted parts with the hand-built cars as they were fitted before paintwork was done. My Mangusta has window trim stamped, various panels. Even the front hood latch tabs (two on the Goose) are stamped on the back-side.
Mark
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