[DeTomaso] supercharger questions

[Kirby Schrader]

I drove my 71 Pantera to work and back as a daily driver for years.
Rain or shine.
>From 1994 to 2001. I bought myself a Lightning for my 50th birthday
and started driving it to work instead.

The Pantera let me down _once_. One evening coming home from work
right after I had installed the IR EFI. A pin got pushed in on the
injector connector and when I went over a railroad track, the car died
because the pin came loose. No 12VDC to the injectors. Towed the car
home, found the problem, pushed in the pin, made sure it was secure
and off I went.

The car also made many a trip to the track, ran all weekend, got me
home, a little maintenance and it took me back to work Monday morning.

Of course they can be reliable.

FWIW,
Kirby



On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 9:50 AM,  <JJD1010 at aol.com> wrote:
> In a message dated 1/4/2010 12:30:06 A.M. Central Standard Time,
> boyd411 at gmail.com writes:
>
> If you want to enjoy having a car that you can drive with out  worrying
> about getting stuck
>
>
> I'm not sure that this sort of thinking needs to be  treated as an absolute
> truth. In fact we may be doing ourselves a disservice  by thinking this
> way. I bought a new 74L and drove it daily  back and forth to work in Chicago
> traffic in rain, snow or shine for  three years. It was my only car. And it
> never broke or left me stuck  somewhere. That's not to say that it was great
> in the snow or rain but it did  run. So it seems to me that a properly
> updated and maintained Pantera should  be reasonably reliable.
>
> My two cents worth is that a lot of these cars  were never maintained well
> by their owners and this is why they seem to have  "problems" today.
> Consider that they were early 70s vintage exotics  and as such, appropriate costs
> would have to be spent to maintain them,  including the cost of fixing the
> rust issues. Unfortunately, they were  sort of the bastard child of the car
> world and they didn't hold their  value well so owners couldn't or wouldn't
> spend money to keep them up to snuff. "Couldn't" because they were cheap buys
>  and some owners bought them because they were cheap and treated them as
> such  or didn't have the money to keep them maintained well. "Wouldn't"
> because they  were a depreciating asset that didn't seem to hold its value well so
> they  couldn't justify spending the money to keep them in top notch shape.
>
> I see no reason why we have to keep berating the cars.  Fortunately, there
> were a number of Pantera enthusiasts who kept  the marque going and have
> made the car what it is today. But the  cars are in need of some serious costs
> to restore them. We should all  hope that the car goes up in value so we can
> justify spending the appropriate  money to update them well. And then they
> will be dependable. For an early 70s vintage exotic, I'd say they can't be
> beat. We should make that our message.
>
> Jeff
> 6559
>
>
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