[DeTomaso] The DeTomaso Pantera 'Always Fights You'

[Charles Engles]

Dear Audionut,

 

 

                   Egad!  You understand the Pantera!   Have you considered writing for Profiles?   

 

 

                                    Warmest regards,  Chuck Engles

 

 

 

From: audionut at hushmail.com [mailto:audionut at hushmail.com] 
Sent: Monday, August 19, 2013 8:00 PM
To: Charles Engles; detomaso at poca.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" <cengles at cox.net> 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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