[DeTomaso] Colin Haney's Gr4 Pantera on the block in France

John McKee johnmckee at cox.net
Sun May 25 22:21:31 EDT 2008


Also note that lot #118 is chassis 3314.
A Pantera with race history........unless this is another duplicate car.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: <MikeLDrew at aol.com>
To: <detomaso at realbig.com>
Sent: Sunday, May 25, 2008 6:31 PM
Subject: [DeTomaso] Colin Haney's Gr4 Pantera on the block in France


> Hi guys,
>
> Those of you who attended the Las Vegas event in the past few years will
> remember Colin Haney's beautiful Gr4 conversion, #2846.   This was a 
> street car
> that lived on the street for a few years, and then was modified to racing
> specifications in the mid 1970s, equipped with Gr4 flares, and US-made mag 
> wheels,
> and then raced at Sebring in 1977 and 1978, as well as Road Atlanta, 
> Hallett,
> etc.
>
> Colin had it for a few years, then had it up for sale for a couple of 
> years.
> Eventually it was purchased, and immediately appeared for sale at Fantasy
> Junction in Emeryville, CA.   I went and looked at it while it was there; 
> nice
> car!
>
> The Cleveland was long gone, replaced by a monster Windsor, as Colin had 
> no
> vintage race ambitions and just built it to use as a track day play car.
>
> Apparently it was sold, as it has moved to the 'sold' section of their
> website:
>
> http://www.fantasyjunction.com/archive.php?id=e76dfecf5ec186578818f919c769a540
>
>
> Lo and behold, while thumbing through Classic & Sports Car magazine, I 
> found
> an ad for an upcoming auction of classic and competition cars that was 
> held on
> May 4th in the south of France, and there it is again.   It is lot 114 in 
> the
> catalog below:
>
> http://www.stanislasmachoir.com/acceuil/textedacceuil/image/automobiles.pdf
>
> I don't know how to find out what it sold for; perhaps the results will be
> revealed in upcoming issues of the C&SC magazine in the auction results 
> section?
>
> Mike
>
>
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