[DeTomaso] Who can check a Texan Pantera?

[Julian Kift]

I mounted C4 seats direct to stock floor pans to get enough headroom for a helmet. FWIW I'm 6'0" with a 33" inseam.

Julian

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On 2012-05-18, at 14:06, "David and Marilyn Bell" <davidabell at att.net> wrote:

> 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
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> 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
> 
> Asa Jay Laughton, MSgt, USAFR, Retired
> &  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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