[DeTomaso] WTB Carbon Fiber for my 1971 Pantera

[Bill Lewis]

Mike, I agree!!  My thought about carbon fiber is that it is a fad - meaning to place it  so that you can LOOK at it is a fad, not the weight-saving characteristic.  In the future we will look back and think of it like the hair-do's of the 70's (and boy do I have pix of me).    ----Bill

> From: MikeLDrew at aol.com
> Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2012 01:08:28 -0500
> To: edducati at mac.com; gow2 at rc-tech.net
> CC: detomaso at realbig.com
> Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] WTB Carbon Fiber for my 1971 Pantera
> 
> 
> In a message dated 11/22/12 16 41 40, edducati at mac.com writes:
> 
> 
> > Thanks will have a look at that, thanks. Do you know if it would hurt or 
> > help the value of my Pantera by updating the interior to the modern dash 
> > and leather? My car has 13,000 original miles but has been sitting for years 
> > and the interior needs some work. Do most of the upgrades that people do 
> > help the value?
> > 
> 
> >>>That's very much a matter of personal taste, but I can tell you 
> definitively that you will never get back what you put in; that is, you can count on 
> raising the value of the car no more than perhaps 25% of the cost of the 
> upgrades.   That's why you're always better off financially buying a car 
> that's already done, rather than doing it yourself.
> 
> I personally have no use for replacing the interior with plastic.   While a 
> leather interior is warm, sumptuous and classy, I find carbon fiber 
> (whether real or fake) to be really cheesy.   It has no place in a luxury GT, but 
> that's a very personal opinion reflecting my own bias.
> 
> Mike
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