[DeTomaso] Hagerty Article: "Pantera: Ripe for picking up, not picking on"

[Sean Korb]

It really doesn't make sense.  If your old $50,000 Ferrari needs a clutch
job at 5000 miles, and it costs $4000 to do it, everyone is like "oh, of
course".  But if a Pantera overheated 30 years ago, somehow there's no
fixin' it.

It's all perception.  If you haven't owned one, you just don't know.

sean

On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 10:58 PM, <JDeRyke at aol.com> wrote:

> A good article and a better reply by Adam. Sadly, old first impressions die
> hard. I recently had an e-mail conversation with Mike Spence of C & D, and
> when I mentioned I had a Pantera, he said, "Pantera? Now there's a scary
> car...." I said, "we'd owned ours for 30 years, with my wife doing half the
> driving. We raced it, autocrossed it, street-drove it 60,000 miles and no
> wrecks or damage yet. You really oughta try one again...".   I doubt it
> will
> happen but I'll be sure to forward him Pat Hals' Classic LeMans results
> next
> summer. Cheers- J Deryke
>
>
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Sean Korb spkorb at spkorb.org http://www.spkorb.org
'65,'68 Mustangs,'68 Cougar,'78 R100/7,'60 Metro,'59 A35,'71 Pantera #1382
"The more you drive, the less intelligent you get" --Miller
"Computers are useless.  They can only give you answers." -P. Picasso