[DeTomaso] The DeTomaso Pantera 'Always Fights You'

[Bill Lewis]

I'm going to reply to this thread during Monday night football so maybe not many will see it - gonna make some people mad.   Maybe I should just shut up and log off.          ----------But, well - white is not my favorite color for a car, specially a sports car!!  Not gonna say what I'm really thinking!!   I was reading a car mag and the number one color for the 2013 corvette was white.   WHITE!!      Well, if you add the two shades of red, the "red" color sold a few more than white!!       --------------------And, my second rant is I love the Pantera so much!!!!    And, I don't mind the Mangusta being in the same family - they sorta look alike.  But the GT5S doesn't look like a Pantera.  It should be in another family.      And, That's all I'm gonna say about that.    ---BILLY 

> Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2013 18:00:13 -0700
> To: cengles at cox.net; detomaso at poca.com
> From: audionut at hushmail.com
> Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] The DeTomaso Pantera 'Always Fights You'
> 
> Ha!  Wouldn't argue with that assessment at all.  MotorWeek's whining
> kinda sounds like me after I first bought mine.
> People always look at me funny when I tell them it took me about a
> year to feel comfortable driving it.  
> This is not a car for the faint of heart.  You gotta be a man.  You
> get in, lay on your back, fire it up and take charge.  ...or else.! 
> (Or else it doesn't really work right and you emerge from it
> frightened and defeated.)
> Not that my (mostly stock) car is even that fast.  There is just the
> sensation of it wrapping itself around you.  The motor, howling from
> the depths of hell, is strapped to your back.  The front wheels are
> your outstretched hands.  On each side of your ass are half-shafts
> poking out and big fucking tires are up around your ears. The driver
> loses his identity and becomes fused into the structure of the car. 
> You feel every pebble, every crack and crevice of the road.  You _are_
> the machine.
> Modern auto-tech, in my opinion, has largely engineered out this
> unruly sensation.  The Pantera, to me, was born in the sweet spot
> between old-school, rudimentary manufacturing and slick modern
> computer-built cars.
> Long live this beast and all those who love it and look after it at
> risk of their lives. 
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> 
> On August 17, 2013 at 6:42 AM, "Charles Engles"  wrote:Dear Forum,
>                  A short three and half minute video on Jalopnik from
> about
> 1988-89 (?) on Kirk Evans' gray market Pantera GT5S.   FWIW.
>                                 Warmest regards,  Chuck Engles
> http://jalopnik.com/the-detomaso-pantera-always-fights-you-1155387090 
> 
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