[DeTomaso] The Fake Pantera Lives????

boyd casey boyd411 at gmail.com
Fri Oct 9 22:27:28 EDT 2009


Well the seller claims that the "thing" has a ZF bell housing . I don't know
if the bell housing is in the front seat or if it is attached to the motor.
I believe he also said that the car comes with half shafts. So if you can
believe the claims it was setup for a working ZF at one point.
Boyd

On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 9:48 PM, Sean Korb <spkorb at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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