[DeTomaso] The Fake Pantera Lives????

Sean Korb spkorb at gmail.com
Fri Oct 9 21:48:47 EDT 2009


I don't know how you would go about putting a ZF in this one.  It's
clearly never intended to be blessed with such a transmission.
Probably takes an upside down Corvair transmission or if you are
clever, a Northstar 4.6L Cadillac motor and transmission.

This is just a bad kit gone worse.

sean

On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 5:18 PM, boyd casey <boyd411 at gmail.com> wrote:
> That would be a possible motive for some uninformed person to buy this
> "thing" But the last reported sale price for the "beast"was over $8000.00
> That's without a ZF. By the time you add a ZF and the rest of the parts you
> would need to make this car any where near "whole" you will undoubtedly need
> to spend more then you would have to spend to purchase one of the less
> expensive authentic Panteras available in the current depressed economy.
> Boyd
>
> On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 1:40 PM, <JDeRyke at aol.com> wrote:
>
>> There's another possible motive for building such a car besides
>> crookedness; poor-ness!   I don't know the intimate details of the
>> fabricated Pantera,
>> but when Judy and I were actively autocrossing all over Northern CA, there
>> was an odd looking kit-Cobra from San Jose also running. The owner freely
>> admitted that with a wife & 3 kids, he simply couldn't afford a 'real' kit
>> from
>> any of the many suppliers. What he got was a reject front clip from one
>> maker and a reject rear clip from another... and put them together on his
>> own
>> frame. As I remember, it looked a little out of proportion but ran well...
>> until he decided to hot-dog the last turn at a DeAnza College event,
>> smacked a
>> concrete light pole with the passenger door and broke the car in two. Don't
>> know whatever happened to the car; the builder- Jeff Jio- retired quite a
>> few years ago. Remember him, Bob?
>> Food for thought- J Deryke
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