[DeTomaso] Pantera sold on ebay

[RFogle1 at aol.com]

I looked at this car Sat. and the auction was over on Sunday.  Sat.  night 
when I checked there were no bids.  I was really only able to look at  the front 
and about half of the passenger side, as it was back in the corner of  a two 
car basement garage with three other cars.  He was reluctant to move  all the 
other cars to get the Pantera out as the weather was iffy, its  Ohio.
 
The car had a number of "improvements", and the list was long, but it's not  
written down anywhere.  He was older and hadn't worked on the car in a long  
time, but it did start up pretty easily after he hit the carb throats with a  
little gas from a Stadium Mustard squeeze bottle, that was rolling  around in 
the back of his old pickup.  It was loud, backed up  against the cement block 
wall, I think the whole house was vibrating.   Seller told me he applied five 
or more gallons of undercoating to the car not  long after purchasing it.  The 
undercoating had dripped everywhere.   He was the second owner, bought it in 
74 or so.   It appears he  preferred to work on it than drive it.  He said the 
original owner had  installed a Boss 351.
 
Seller had installed a GM brake master cylinder and calipers off of a  
Chrysler Cordoba in an effort to improve braking.  I felt the irony  of the Hawaii 
5-0, Pantera,  Ricardo Montalban, Cordoba  circle.   I was not able to look at 
many of the modifications he  made.  After market seats were not adding any 
value.  They looked  like the old barrel shaped bar stools you'd see in a lounge 
lizard kind of  establishment.  No forward or aft adjustment that I could 
see.   Thankfully they were cloth and not Corinthian Leather.  As for the 
mileage,  the passenger door was tight, no sag.  It may well have be an  extremely 
low mileage car.  He did show me two additional sets of  wheels and tires, one 
with well worn rubber, that went with the  car.  The rubber on the car still 
had the nubs intact all the way  around, he said they were 4 years old.  I don't 
think anyone got a better  look at it than I did before the end of the 
auction.  I suspect it was  purchased site unseen.  Ron
 
Ronald M. Fogle

President
Cuyahoga Valley Management, Inc.
PO Box  102
Cuyahoga Falls, OH 44222
330-592-5189 phone
216-581-6494 fax  

 
In a message dated 2/16/2009 12:57:31 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
pantdino at aol.com writes:

I don't  look at ebay or follow sales, but I happened to come across this  
one.

Basically stock Pantera '72 pre-L sold for $35K.? 

5800  miles in 36  years?

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Cars-Trucks___1972-DETOMASO-PANTERA_W0QQitemZ33
0306625465QQddnZCarsQ20Q26Q20TrucksQQddiZ2282QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUS_Cars_Trucks
?hash=item330306625465&_trksid=p4506.c0.m245&_trkparms=72%3A317|65%3A12|39%3A1
|240%3A1318

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