Pantera GT/4 Grupppe 4 only legal one ordered in early '70s

I was sorting through my boxes of pictures and found a shot of a
Pantera GT/4, red with black hood and trunk lid, and bottom of car black,
deep dish Campys . I shot the picture as it was leaving the Bill Stroppe
building in the early '70s, Stroppe used to fix Panteras for Ford on recalls and prep
cars as they arrived from the docks.
I remember at the time the story was taht this car was ordered by someone who found out you could order
a racing Pantera (where if you went to a Lincoln Mercury dealer they would deny that option existed) . Next time I heard of it was decades later when Bill Hohenhorst of SD found it in a classified ad and bought it with a partner.
What I am curious about is: Is this one of the original 16 Factory Comp cars or is it true the factory made some that looked like race cars but weren't fully race equipped?
Is it out on the show auction circuit now?
I know the 351 engines weren't that reliable in racing though they got them
built by Bud Moore, the stock car guys, who should have been able to build one that hung together

 

I got a little confused. I found a story on a multi-colored Pantera GT/4 race
car that was raced in Europe, similar in paint scheme to the Andy Warhol painted BMW M1.
I was wondering if that's the very same car found in San Diego some years ago by Pantera club member Bill Hohenhorst. It also reminded me that some heir to the Ford family was supposed to have ordered a racing Pantera GT/4, has anyone ever heard that? Also there was a Ford executive's son who raced a Pantera GT/4 and was killed racing but not in that Pantera, instead some Can Am car that went (almost) under the Armco. The car made it, the driver didn't. I wonder if that turned off some Ford executives on the Pantera , they being unaware it wasn't a Pantera he was killed in.