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Fantastic news for any wide-body Pantera owners who still run the original rims.

Yokohama Japan has apparently run a batch of 1,000 of these tires and sent them to the UK. Price is roughly $260 USD/tire, which really isn't bad, all things considering. The DeTomaso Club of the UK picked up 30 of these, so I've got several reserved for me... We're trying to find out where the other 1,000 went, but they are out there! I'll post again as soon as I know where you can order more...

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Charlie McCall
1985 DeTomaso Pantera GT5-S #9375
"Raising Pantera Awareness across Europe"
http://briefcase.yahoo.com/gt5s_1985
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Hello Charlie,
Glad I noticed your post, upon seeing it I called Roger Brotton and booked tyres for my GT5S, I think i secured the last two available!! The club are trying to get more than the original 30 tyres allocated to them but as for now I believe they are all sold
Hope evrythings well in sunny Spain
Stephen
You are located in US so I am not sure how you can get tyres. what I know is that Yokohama has run a batch of 1000 285 tyres and the DeTomaso Uk Club have secured 30 tyres, all of them now sold to members. They will be delivered from Germany and Roger Brotton has heard that most of the tyres are destined for the US, we are trying to get more than the 30 allocated. I will try and get more info and let you know.
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Originally posted by stephen:
-snip- Roger Brotton has heard that most of the tyres are destined for the US, we are trying to get more than the 30 allocated. I will try and get more info and let you know.


The tires cannot be destined for the US, as they do not have the DOT stamp required to be sold in the US. No US-dealer may legally sell them. I'm still trying to locate where the 1,000 physically are. I'm sure that we can work something out to have them shipped to the US through Roger, the UK club, or SOMEONE... We need to find them first!

Roger is trying to find where they are and I am asking everyone I know... I'll let everyone know when I find them, and if anyone sees them, please let us know!!

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Charlie McCall
1985 DeTomaso Pantera GT5-S #9375
"Raising Pantera Awareness across Europe"
http://briefcase.yahoo.com/gt5s_1985
As I understand the tires are not made yet and they will only be made against firm orders (minimum 1000). I have ordered 20 tires. I will preliminary get them by the end of the year.
None are sold, if there is any interest please let me know. If so I will handle it so I do not need to pay the 25% Swedish sales tax, for tires on export.
Regards
Kjell Jansson
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