Reply to "Wanted: Any Year GT5S"

GhostRidr:

My understanding (which could be wrong, of course) is that Stauffer imported GT5 Panteras, not GT5-Ss. As far as I know, the GT5-S cars that came into the US were all either Kirk Evans' Amerisports or "grey market" cars. John Scotti brought about 10 GT5s into Canada, and I know at least one of those has found its way into the US (#9191 just went to Seattle). Carol Shelby had five GT5-S Panteras brought in for himself, but that's another long and interesting story.

It would be nice to know from Kirk Evans exactly how many Amerisports he built and sold. Has anyone asked him this directly?

As far as George Stauffer goes, I have heard he sold maybe 40 GT5s but, again, it would be good to know directly from him. I would also love to know how many grey market GT5s came into the country (I know of at least one; #9317).

The bottom line is that there were less than 184 GT5-S Panteras built by DeTomaso between 1985 and 1990. Given the disproportionate numbers of the known remaining cars that are in Europe, I doubt very much if 100 of them were to be in the US.

- Peter