[DeTomaso] Who can check a Texan Pantera?

[David and Marilyn Bell]

I have stock floor pans. I would guess that the combination of the Corvette
seating height being higher than a stock Pantera seat plus the extremely
tall Corvette electric tracks are adding up to 3 or 4 inches over stock.  It
would definitely help but would also have to be a pretty drastic floor plan
drop to accomodate all that extra Corvette equipment height - butt dragging
territory.

The Corvette seats in mine work great on the stock Pantera tracks.  I would
have liked to use the electric track, but it wasn't really all that
important. I'm the only person who drives my Panera so the seats tend not to
get moved except when I need to access/remove the firewall cover.

I'll admit though that it was a fairly tricky to drill blind holes in the
Corvette seat buckets so that they all lined up exactly with the Pantera
tracks which had to be mounted to the floor pans to maintain the proper
track alignment.

Dave Bell


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From: detomaso-bounces at realbig.com
[mailto:detomaso-bounces at realbig.com]On Behalf Of Asa Jay Laughton
Sent: Friday, May 18, 2012 11:35 AM
To: detomaso at realbig.com
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Who can check a Texan Pantera?


Dave,

Do you have lowered floor pans?
Do you think it would work with lowered floor pans?

Asa Jay

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&  Shelley Marie
Spokane, WA
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On 5/18/2012 7:09 AM, David and Marilyn Bell wrote:
> I noticed that the black Pantera has Corvette C4 seats on 'electric
tracks'.
> I can tell you from experience that anyone over about 5'8" won't be able
to
> comfortably drive that car as the seat height will be excessive.  I
> sectioned 1-1/2" out of a set of corvette mechanical tracks trying to get
> them to work in my Pantera, but they were still had my head too close to
the
> roof with C4 seats (I'm a long legged, short waisted 5'11")
>
> The Corvette electric track is another inch or two taller than the
> mechanical track and also can't be shortened.
>
> I ended up mounting the Corvette seats to the stock Pantera seat tracks,
and
> then because the Corvette seats are about 1" taller than stock Pantera
> seats, removed the webbing from the Corvette seat bottoms.  That finally
> gave me enough room to comfortably wear a helmet inside the car.
>
> YMMV.
>
>
> Dave Bell
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: detomaso-bounces at realbig.com
> [mailto:detomaso-bounces at realbig.com]On Behalf Of John Taphorn
> Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2012 9:01 PM
> To: The DeTomaso Registry Guy
> Cc: List
> Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Who can check a Texan Pantera?
>
>
> The car is outside of San Antonio.  Not far from Gray's Ranch.  Curious
> to see he has 3 Panteras for sale.  I didn't know there were that many
> in all of San Antonio - How about it, Mr  Mike Frazier?
>
> JT
>
> On 5/17/2012 7:38 PM, The DeTomaso Registry Guy wrote:
>>
>> Listers,
>>
>>
>>
>> A guy (Paul Brown) in the UK needs some help regarding a Pantera in
Texas.
>>
>>
>>
>> http://www.affordabledreamcars-tx.com/sales/73pantera/73pantera.html
>>
>>
>>
>> The registry has a little more.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
http://www.provamo.com/Members/Registry/RegistryImages/RTHPNMT04965/RTHPNMT0
>> 4965.asp
>>
>>
>>
>> Can someone help?
>>
>>
>>
>> I've cced Paul, you can "Reply All" or direct to his e-address.
>>
>>
>>
>> Chuck Melton
>>
>>
>>
>>
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