Reply to "What was the Original Carburettor used on the 1984 GT5"

George, this is my first post on this site and I have also just picked up my Pantera, so an exciting time. The car is a USA car, and it appears to have the Australian Cleavland block, so that may hopefully give you a clue? I assumed they would have been assembled with the carby from the source if they came to USA or where they finished off in USA also?

The car has 17,000 original miles and I am assuming someone has changed out the carby and the dizzy. I cant find anything which tells me what it had originally!

Would greatly appreciate input on this. It is about to go onto a container next week and off to Perth in Western Australia.

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Originally posted by George P:
Is that an Australian Pantera, or one imported to Australia from somewhere else?

In 1984 Panteras were shipped to Australia "knocked-down" and assembled in Australia by the importer (Ken Matthews or the bloke who bought De Tomaso Australia from Ken Matthews). The importer supplied the engines for the cars he assembled. He may not have used the same carburetor that De Tomaso was using for cars assembled in Modena Italy.