[DeTomaso] New Pantera Owners?

[Bill Lewis]

[Wow, John, I did not know that!]      My first Pantera "appeared" at our office parking one day back in about 1978.  My wife bought it to surprise me with.  She can not remember how she found out about a Pantera, or who she bought it from.  Neither one of us can remember when/where we bought the second one (yes, we're getting old), but we had to sell it in 1984 when the economy in Texas crashed.  I bought my third Pantera in about 2000 - actually it was the second one, that I Googled Pantera, got into POCA, talked to Judy, and she told me who the then current owner was (Willie MacKewan - Redlands, CA).  It took me two years to get him to sell it to me - bought it back!    ---BILL LEWIS

> From: coreyjprice at gmail.com
> Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2013 08:01:58 -0700
> To: jtaphorn at kingwoodcable.com
> CC: detomaso at poca.com
> Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] New Pantera Owners?
> 
> I wish I had purchased mine sooner, but had nowhere to put it…
> 
> I also agree with Michael that some things happen for a reason in life.
> 
> Corey
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Feb 13, 2013, at 6:40 AM, John Taphorn wrote:
> 
> > I purchased my first Pantera at 24. I recall having to wait one year til 
> > I turned 25 when my insurance was reduced by half.
> > 
> > JT
> > 
> > On 2/13/2013 5:30 AM, Will Kooiman wrote:
> >> My ex-wife (while we were still married) wanted to buy a new car for
> >> herself.  I objected because I was driving an 84 Mustang and she was
> >> driving an 88 Mazda MPV. Basically, I needed a new car worse than she did.
> >>  She said that if she could get a new car, once it was paid off, I could
> >> have whatever car I wanted.  I said (verbatim), "Ok.  I want a Pantera."
> >> She said, "WellŠ It has to be practical."
> >> 
> >> She got her car, a new Volvo station wagon - 5 cylinder turbo.  A few
> >> years later, I bought a 93 Mustang Cobra, and she went nuts.  She was
> >> upset because I bought it without her being there, even though I told her
> >> I was going to buy it, and she was okay with it.  Weird.
> >> 
> >> About a year after I remarried, the 93 Mustang was stolen for the 3rd
> >> time, and this time it was stripped to the bone.  I replaced it with a 97
> >> Mustang Cobra.  About a year after that, I bought a 72 Pantera.  I loved
> >> it so much, I sold my 67 Mustang.  I should have sold the 97 Mustang and
> >> kept the 67.
> >> 
> >> I was 33-34 years old when I got the Pantera.  I should have done it in my
> >> 20's.
> >> 
> >> --
> >> Will
> >> 
> >> 
> >> 
> >> 
> >> 
> >> On 2/13/13 5:07 AM, "eb0711 at kolumbus.fi" <eb0711 at kolumbus.fi> wrote:
> >> 
> >>> Bougth mine 2 yrs ago at 40. Which was weird, because I had already 10
> >>> years ago told to my ex-wife that I will buy a Pantera in my 40years
> >>> crisis, instead the motocycle she objected heavily.
> >>> Well... I divorced at 35, bought 2 motorbikes, and strangely enough the
> >>> opportunity to buy Pantera came right at 40, just before I re-married
> >>> two years ago...
> >>> 
> >>> No complaints :),
> >>> -Janne
> >>> 
> >>> 
> >>> 2/13/2013 5:40 AM, michael at michaelshortt.com kirjoitti:
> >>>> Bought mine at age 45, I still had the same ad that I had removed from
> >>>> my
> >>>> stepfather's Playboy 35 years earlier.
> >>>> 
> >>>> Michael Shortt
> >>>> On Feb 12, 2013 9:57 PM, "Corey Price" <coreyjprice at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>> 
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