[DeTomaso] Good Press on the Pantera

Tue Apr 22 14:21:41 EDT 2014

If the picture that everyone is asking about is the one with the black Pantera with the lady in the black dress walking a black panther I think I can add something.  

I immediately recognized this picture as being from the December 1984 issue of Motor Trend.  I was hooked on Panteras when they came out while I was in high school and college.  Every time I would see one I'd have to soak in as much as I could with my eyeballs and my ears.

After I graduated college I moved to Iowa where the population of exotic cars is low.  As the years went on, Pantera sightings became very rare.  When I received my 1984 December issue of Motor Trend I could hardly believe my eyes when I saw a Pantera on the cover with the  aforementioned gal and cat.  I devoured the article and then read it again.   It had a many color pictures of the car.  The article stated that the Panteras were being imported by Stauffer Classics and being federalized by Kirk Evans (at least the car in the article was).  The article also stated the Kirk brought another federalized GT5 to the Ohio Transportation Research Center for testing, which is the photo in the data panel.

Ironically, less than three years after I read that article I bought my Euro GTS and had it restored by Stauffer.  I visited Stauffer's shop many times during my restoration and saw several GT5s and GT5-S cars while there.  That is how I came to know Cory Gehling (Collectors Choice).   Cory was working for Stauffer at the time and assisting with the importation of Panteras.  

I scanned the magazine cover and the pages of the article and put them in my album on the POCA website.   

http://www.poca.com/index.php/album/shinrock-tom

Don't know if people can lift the images off the scan for pictures or not.

Tom
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-----Original Message-----
From: Jerry Knotts <knottsj at galstar.com>
To: detomaso <detomaso at poca.com>
Sent: Tue, Apr 22, 2014 7:47 am
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Good Press on the Pantera

   My big question is where can I get a high resolution copy of the
   picture?  If my GT5 Clone had real wheels it would look correct for the
   picture.
   jerry knotts
   On 4/21/2014 9:16 AM, [1]MikeLDrew at aol.com wrote:

   In a message dated 4/21/14 6 33 13, [2]cengles at cox.net writes:

                        Perhaps it could be from Kirk Evans'
     Amerisport?   My
     memory is fuzzy.

   >>>No, this is Panteramerica, an effort that predates Kirk's affair by
   some years.  If you go through your Brooklands books you'll see a road
   test of the narrowbody Pantera, in the early 1980s.  This was the same
   car that was part of the Popular Mechanics comparison test where the
   Pantera came out on top over all challengers.
   Mike

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   If the picture that everyone is asking about is the one with the black
   Pantera with the lady in the black dress walking a black panther I
   think I can add something.
   I immediately recognized this picture as being from the December 1984
   issue of Motor Trend.  I was hooked on Panteras when they came out
   while I was in high school and college.  Every time I would see one I'd
   have to soak in as much as I could with my eyeballs and my ears.
   After I graduated college I moved to Iowa where the population of
   exotic cars is low.  As the years went on, Pantera sightings became
   very rare.  When I received my 1984 December issue of Motor Trend I
   could hardly believe my eyes when I saw a Pantera on the cover with
   the  aforementioned gal and cat.  I devoured the article and then read
   it again.   It had a many color pictures of the car.  The article
   stated that the Panteras were being imported by Stauffer Classics and
   being federalized by Kirk Evans (at least the car in the article was).
   The article also stated the Kirk brought another federalized GT5 to the
   Ohio Transportation Research Center for testing, which is the photo in
   the data panel.
   Ironically, less than three years after I read that article I bought my
   Euro GTS and had it restored by Stauffer.  I visited Stauffer's shop
   many times during my restoration and saw several GT5s and GT5-S cars
   while there.  That is how I came to know Cory Gehling (Collectors
   Choice).   Cory was working for Stauffer at the time and assisting with
   the importation of Panteras.
   I scanned the magazine cover and the pages of the article and put them
   in my album on the POCA website.
   http://www.poca.com/index.php/album/shinrock-tom
   Don't know if people can lift the images off the scan for pictures or
   not.
   Tom
   5186
   -----Original Message-----
   From: Jerry Knotts <knottsj at galstar.com>
   To: detomaso <detomaso at poca.com>
   Sent: Tue, Apr 22, 2014 7:47 am
   Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Good Press on the Pantera
   My big question is where can I get a high resolution copy of the
   picture?  If my GT5 Clone had real wheels it would look correct for the
   picture.
   jerry knotts
   On 4/21/2014 9:16 AM, [1][1]MikeLDrew at aol.com wrote:

   In a message dated 4/21/14 6 33 13, [2][2]cengles at cox.net writes:

                        Perhaps it could be from Kirk Evans'
     Amerisport?   My
     memory is fuzzy.

   >>>No, this is Panteramerica, an effort that predates Kirk's affair by
   some years.  If you go through your Brooklands books you'll see a road
   test of the narrowbody Pantera, in the early 1980s.  This was the same
   car that was part of the Popular Mechanics comparison test where the
   Pantera came out on top over all challengers.
   Mike

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