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8MA 1006 is one of about half the known Mangustas that is unlisted in any of the three DeTomaso Registries, due to owner inaction. From the serial #, it was a 1970- build. It's possible it could be either a late import U.S- spec' single headlight car, or a Euro-spec double-headlight assembly, and nothing more is known. If you locate it, please mention to the owner the advantages of listing the car in some Registry.
This is a car in very very neglected condition. If someone had a new body available, this would be the proverbial candidate for moving the old vin tag to the new body and re-stamping numbers in the frame...... "we cut off the rust and welded on new sheet metal"....

I doubt that any of us will see this particular car back on the road in our lifetimes.....unless it is in pieces an on many cars!

A true shame....

Steve
I can't think about this any more. It is too upsetting.

I went to a town auction once where there was a theft recovery on a '72 Pantera.

It had been sitting in the town impound yard for about 5 years and was sunk into the mud about 5 or 6 inches.

Of the two or three hundred cars there, most buyers were there to see the Pantera.

It got sold for $7500 because the guy wanted the transaxle.

As I was leaving they were winching it out of the mud up a flatbed. I was watching to see if the car would break in two.

Very sick feeling to even think about it really.

Most people just don't understand the fragility of these cars sheet metal and even the monoque.

Pitty. Most of these smucks should have stayed to their Camaros. That's about the level of intelligence they are capable of.

Even Corvette owners have some intelligence if you closely look for it.

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