What are the Odds? 3074

Lucky! Way back in 1980, I tried to find 'sister cars' to verify an idea I'd had that the factory batch-painted the cars in groups. I had no success since pairs of cars in the same area are incredibly rare (our sister-car was in The Netherlands!) The decals that define OEM paint vanish almost instantly, and I wasn't aware at the time that looking under the floormats or behind the dash will show OEM paint color. But thats what started the interest in serial number logs, and it eventually grew to Bill Van Ess's original DeTomaso Registry in 1994.

Looks good.

I like the original Campy 8 and 10's on the car.

$60K? I guess it'll sit in the dealer showroom for a while.

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Originally posted by Bosswrench:
Lucky! Way back in 1980, I tried to find 'sister cars' to verify an idea I'd had that the factory batch-painted the cars in groups. I had no success since pairs of cars in the same area are incredibly rare (our sister-car was in The Netherlands!) The decals that define OEM paint vanish almost instantly, and I wasn't aware at the time that looking under the floormats or behind the dash will show OEM paint color. But thats what started the interest in serial number logs, and it eventually grew to Bill Van Ess's original DeTomaso Registry in 1994.

Jack,

Was there ever a conclusion made to whether or not these cars were painted in in batches? From what little information I have gathered that seems to be correct.

This is interesting. Only recently did I see a reference to the Newman-Hass (sp) car which turns out to be the car just before mine. Of course, that and ten grand will raise the price of my car by ten grand. But it is interesting.

Glenn

God, I've been in NASCAR country too long. It was the Newman-Long race cat which is next to mine in serial number. CHEESH, I need a vacation.

follow up
Les Gray posted this:


" Les Gray here,

I ran the Pantera Department at Long & Newman and we NEVER built a car with steel fenders or quarter panels EVER ! ! ! They we completely fiberglass bodies tooled off of my 1972 L Pantera chassis THPNML04371 ( don't know where that car is today )
The frame on this car doesn't look like one of our frames either. Who knows whose body it is......there were several companies trying to build Pantera kit cars back in those days. The difference between those other cars and the Long & Newman car was ours was an EXACT duplicate of the Pantera body and using the entire running gear and suspension and glass from Pantera inventory...... a true replica!

L. Gray"
so, the car used to pull the 'glass body parts was from Gray's Pantera just one number before mine.

When we found our car(1717) a few years ago, our sister car(1716) was at Mayberry for sale.
Jeff