Tracking down '68 Goose transaction history

Your serial would help. There are several Rosters for DeTomaso cars, some containing motor and ZF numbers.

Thanks for the response; I tried looking up some of these rosters but I can't seem to find anything that resembles what you speak of through internet searches. Could you possibly post a link to one of these? Thanks again.

The first roster was self-published in 1984 by a POCA member with his own financing and only exists as paper copies- about 1200 of them. No one to my knowlege has scanned in the 250 typewritten pages. My copy is heavily annotated as I find changes or additions to Vallelungas, Panteras, Mangustas, Longchamps and Deauvilles. THe Guara was not in production when this Reg. came out.
The second is a European web site run by Ben Tyler in England, but this one is up-and-down and may no longer exist.
The 3rd is also a web site (it requires registration each time you call it up)- www.DeTomasoRegistry.org
There are other specialty registers- one for the race cars and one for 9000-series Panteras. May be others too. There's also a LOT of info at the privately-run DeTomaso Museum in Switzerland, and Santiago DeTomaso- son of the founder- has nearly all of the factory production records in Italy- info for a fee.

Thanks again for your response; I've tried looking up contact information for the museum in Switzerland or curator contacts to no avail. Additionally, trying to find contact information for Santiago DeTomaso has proven fruitless. I see now why uncovering the history for these cars may be like searching for the lost Ark of the Covenant haha.

As for the registry, I was able to find information that was already known; I am hopeful that eventually I may be able to come across the original build sheet, which would be an excellent find.

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Originally posted by R. Zoller:
we want to try and establish the complete provenance. Modern searches are useless as the VIN contains only 6 digits, and I was wondering if anyone here in this community has had experience and/or success in tracking down their own vehicle.

I was thinking that looking into U.S. Customs records would help since the car had to be imported into the states at some point (car is currently located in North Georgia).

Any help or suggestions are greatly appreciated! Thanks yall!

-Ricky

Ricky, I am lucky to have found a list of all prior owners and factory build sheets for my car.

Provenance is more and more of a problem as many countries and states bury the info on the guise of protection of personal information.

The factory does have the build sheets but will not disclose who they sold it to.

I sent a couple contacts to your dad`s email a few days ago.

Denis