Pantera registry owners...can you help?

There is nothing in the registry about THPNLS01965.

Thank you very much Jim.

Hey Kats how your Pantera coming along?

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Originally posted by pantera someday:
Hey Kats how your Pantera coming along?

Slow, but loving every second I am with the car. It is incredible. The plates are expired and I need to take her through emissions

I am going to take her up to coz's house in a few weeks hopefully, and we are going to go through her and do some updating.

She needs news tires also. Should have those in a few weeks.

Thanks for asking pantera someday. Take care!

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Originally posted by Jim:
There is nothing in the registry about THPNLS01965.

What is this Pantera registration thing you guys are talking about?

The deTomaso Registry is a book compiled by Bill Van Ess in 1994 listing the cars, owners, and some information about the cars. It is no where near a complete listing, but that can improve if every owner sends his information to Bill Milburn for the new one. See:
http://www.panteraplace.com/page142.htm

Long (long) ago Bill Van Ess manually compiled a manuscript to list, by VIN, DeTomaso automobiles. The book was published around 1991 or so. There was a reprint around 1993 (?). Naturally it is out-of-date.
In vegas one year I met Bill, and video-taped his photo album, one car at a time, for my own amusement.
Bill Milburn (in Texas) announced that he will update the registry. (With permission from Van Ess) (I believe Milburn compiled the Cobra registry, so he has experience.)
A data sheet regularily appears in the various POCA (and maybe PI) publications for owners to update (or add) the information on their car(s).
When the next revision will be made available is unknown. I've heard that it is about to become available... and I've heard that for maybe 7-8 years. (honest grin.)
I guess I should send in my update page soon, but without any news and no actual revision date I lost interest.

Various formats have been discussed, like a 3-ring binder to allow update pages to be easily added, versus a complete re-publication every 15-20 years.
Cars currently appear as a "one-liner", but there is a seperate section also in VIN order for details (a paragraph) if the info is provided.
When the update seemed to be a ways off still, I gave up and started to record my own notes on cars. I still collect web advertisements (eBay, car trader, PI, etc...) and now have several hundred cars.

There have been several attempts to make a registry available online. None contain the volume like the Van Ess book.

It is a monumental effort to assemble the data.
Being able to sell a copy for $20 now and then helps defray the cost of assembly, so maybe that is why it has not been computerized.

I considered having a section of my website to support a registry. There are some privacy issues that should be addressed, and other issues.

But nothing has changed during the passage of time, except that the information currently recorded ages and become outdated.

I still have an interest in supporting the result, a registry of DeTomaso automobiles.

Very interesting Chuck. I had heard of Bill Van Ess' efforts, but never knew he had so much detail.

Kevin

In this day and age, I don't know why the registry is not sometyhing that isn't constantly updated, available, and current.

Was the car in Arizona when your father owned it? If so, where?

And, please let me know when you go to Coz' house and I will meet you there.

My email: pantera3641@azballistics.com

Hey RRS,

Yeah, my father purchased it from a gentlemen in Phoenix in 1992 (around May or June). He actually found it through a Pantera shop that did some type of consignment. The gentelmen we bought it from brought my father and I to his house where he showed us the Shelby Cobra he was working on. I am not sure it is was real or a kit.
My father got very ill soon there after, and we had to sell the car in late September/early October 1992. The car was in Lousiana from then until 2 weeks ago when I got her back.

I will definitely contact you when I find out when I will be at Coz's.

Take care!

Forgot to mention, we lived in Tucson then also. The car was here from May/June 1992 until late Sept/early Oct '1992.

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Originally posted by comp2:
In this day and age, I don't know why the registry is not sometyhing that isn't constantly updated, available, and current.

I think the registry is always been updated by Bill Milburn as time allows. As for constant updates and availablity, Bill Van Ess, who did all the initial hard work, and who fronted 100% of the costs had to wait many years to even break even! That, and it's difficult to get everyone to do it. Years ago hundreds of registry forms were handed out in Vegas, and I bet they didn't even get a dozen back. Then there are those who cry about privacy, like there are Pantera thieves stalking the DeTomaso registry or something.

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Originally posted by Matt Bradley:
I think the registry is always been updated by Bill Milburn as time allows. As for constant updates and availablity, Bill Van Ess, who did all the initial hard work, and who fronted 100% of the costs had to wait many years to even break even! That, and it's difficult to get everyone to do it. Years ago hundreds of registry forms were handed out in Vegas, and I bet they didn't even get a dozen back. Then there are those who cry about privacy, like there are Pantera thieves stalking the DeTomaso registry or something.

Wish some one could help him get it on the web where it could be updated as info comes in and people could subscribe to it.

I did not know of a pantera registry. I would
like to know the whereabouts of # 6315 yellow pantera. I purchased it new in 1974 and sold it
in 1978 with 14,000 miles on it . It went to Indiana.