Reply to "Wayne's GT5-S rebuild"

Dan,

Hank ordered 2 S cars--one car and one body and his son ordered one car which ended up being the last Cleavland powered Pantera build by the factory. We did all of these cars except on of Shelby's S cars. All of the cars came through the AmeriSport shop and I did the epa-dot work on his GTS which is the car original ended up with the turbo Chrysler---Can't remember the details any more---this was 85-87 and I had my hands full with trying to make AmeriSport work.

One thing and it came from the man him self---there was never a Chrysler powered Pantera Shelby program ever seriously considered. That was a roomer mill chit-chat project project and will say it again---that turbo car was a beast---but could never be a street driven on any regular basis. I had allot of turbo idle surge at idle.

Great memories!

Maybe I should post some of the "Dinner with Detomaso" discussions we had in the day. Talk about personal intimidation at 30-31---years of work wiped out if I said something wrong to Mr. D.---or so I thought as a young man---great times good and bad.