European GTS specs

US-spec GTS cars have a "GT" in the serial number, but Euro-GTS cars do not, so there is no way to tell. The Euro-GTS option had a bunch of desireable mechanical upgrades - 330hp, bigger brakes, improved suspension, bigger rims and tires, etc. The American GTS cars got none of these improvements, and it was only a cosmetic package.

After 30 years, parts have no doubt been replaced and modified so it is tough to tell if it is a real GTS or not.

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Charlie McCall
1972 DeTomaso Pantera #3847 (for sale)
1985 DeTomaso Pantera GT5-S #9375
"Raising Pantera Awareness across Europe"
http://briefcase.yahoo.com/gt5s_1985

Charlie is right- 'GTS' is simply a model of Pantera in Europe, and since Ford abandoned the Pantera project in mid-74, DeTomaso basically built cars to order. So that thing could be a street version of a Gr-3 club racer, or it could be a totally stock plain-vanilla Pantera of that year, or literally anything in between. Only an inspection by someone who knows what they're looking for will be able to tell.

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Originally posted by jack deryke:
Charlie is right- 'GTS' is simply a model of Pantera in Europe, and since Ford abandoned the Pantera project in mid-74, DeTomaso basically built cars to order. So that thing could be a street version of a Gr-3 club racer, or it could be a totally stock plain-vanilla Pantera of that year, or literally anything in between. Only an inspection by someone who knows what they're looking for will be able to tell.

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I bought this car and checked with Claudia Lodi at DeTomaso. She verified that the car was a '72 Euro GTS sold in Italy. I'm trying to trace it's journey to the US.