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I met with our local POCA Chapter at Park Place Motors in Bellevue, WA last Thursday and sitting in the showroom is the car built right before mine (3074). Same color and all. Wish I could have gotten a picture with them next to each other, but 3074 was stuffed inside their showroom floor. Here are some pictures I took along with a link to the dealers photos. [Edit - the forum isn't letting me link my hosted photos]





http://www.parkplaceltd.com/in...=1¤t=1&size=50
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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.
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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.
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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.
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