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Re: Confessions of a Ford fan - Here me out before you skin me Mon, 15 March 2004 23:24 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
Yeah Ford bought a controlling share of DeTomaso in the 70s, they had always used ford engines so it wasn't a far stretch.

Then DeTomaso bought the share back again but agreed to supply the Pantera for an additional 10 years, so in essence its not really a Ford persay but it uses a Ford heart and was designed in conjunction with Ford engineers and was commissioned by Ford, so its makes it pretty much the same thing.


Of course, another thought would be to take a fully worked clevo and drop it in the supra,

clevo weighs a shitload but with put out about 500HP and hell of a lot of torque.

9 inch diff and tricked up gear box to handle it.... hmmmmm.


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