[DeTomaso] Pantera colors. My story

Sun Dec 31 13:41:20 EST 2017

I had a similar story as Jim’s.  Going to school (Michigan State Univ) in 1973, I spotted a YELLOW Pantera in the
Lincoln-Mercury dealer in East Lansing. I did some research and determined 1) I couldn’t afford it (being a poor student)
and 2) it was powered by a 351!  So, I convinced my dad (an Ex-Ford mechanic) to come with me to look at it, hoping
he would help with financing. He loved it, thought it was TOTALLY impractical and said, “Well maybe, someday, when your 
working for NASA you can get one!” Ha!

I sold my software company (Parallax Computer Corp) and started working for NASA in 1990, on the Mars Observer.

Fast forward to June, 2000. After joining POCA (and SDP) I found and bought a white 1974. It was stock and I wanted a
driver, so I did all the mandatory upgrades. Later, seeing some rust in the usual places, I completely tore it down, put the
tail-lights back in to make it legal and drove it to Coachworks in Sandy Eggo. After sanding to the metal and fixing all the 
rust spots (another story) I decided on “yellow.” Of course!  George (Coachworks owner) suggested a Corvette yellow, 
called Millennium Yellow. Ahrrrg!!  How dare he! But I went down the street to the Chevy dealer and there, sitting it the
bright sunshine, was a millennium yellow Corvette. I was hooked. Some of you may flame me for such a sacrilege, but damn
it’s pretty.

Now when I drive my Pantera, it definitely turns heads and sparks up conversions everywhere I go… as you all know from 
your own experiences!  ;-))

Terry

"A Purple Heart proves you were smart enough to hatch a plan,
 stupid enough to try it and lucky enough to survive!"

Terry W. Himes 
JPL Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Dawn Spacecraft Team
Rosetta Sequence Team Lead
Phone: (818) 393-6261
Cell:     (818) 653-8213
thimes at jpl.nasa.gov
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On 12/30/17, 8:39 PM, "DeTomaso on behalf of Jim Kosloskey" <detomaso-bounces at server.detomasolist.com on behalf of jim.kosloskey at jim-kosloskey.com> wrote:

    Here is why my Pantera is Yellow.

    In 1974 when I bought it I lived in Dearborn MI and commuted to work downtown Detroit.

    The Pantera in Detroit at that time was pretty much one of the smallest cars on the road. One of the vehicle I was driving was a Mercury Sedan and I had a number of close calls commuting where others claimed they did not see my car.

    So I ordered Yellow which was the brightest color available.

    Yes during the summer I drove the Pantera back and forth to work day or night. I worked in IT so we worked all around the clock.

    I also drove it to my Softball Games all around Metro Detroit and anywhere else I wanted to go.

    In 1974  I drove it to California and back.

    I never once had a close call. I attribute that to mostly the other drivers curiosity  about the car but also the Yellow stood out.

    When I had the car redone recently I had it taken completely down to the metal and thus could have had any color I wanted. 

    I was thinking about red but I was happy with the Yellow so I kept it that way.

    Jim Kosloskey #6949

    -----Original Message-----
    From: DeTomaso [mailto:detomaso-bounces at server.detomasolist.com] On Behalf Of Jack DeRyke via DeTomaso
    Sent: Saturday, December 30, 2017 2:24 PM
    To: djenkins at vanguardtrailer.com; detomaso at server.detomasolist.com
    Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Pantera colors

    In a survey I did in the early '80s of around 100 cars, I found that about half were some shade of red, followed by black, then yellow. The least popular color was green including 'seafoam-green' (the lime shade).

    Easy to check the OEM color of your car: DeTomaso painted the whole shell inside & out before anything was bolted on, so under the floormats or behind the dash where no restorers ever repaint, is the original color. True, there was a decal in the front trunk that had the paint code on it but few survived even 5 yrs of driving. Cheers- J DeRyke

    -----Original Message-----
    From: djenkins <djenkins at vanguardtrailer.com>
    To: detomaso <detomaso at server.detomasolist.com>
    Sent: Sat, Dec 30, 2017 1:05 pm
    Subject: [DeTomaso] Pantera colors

    Dear Forum,
    When considering a Pantera purchase are original color cars worth more?
    Is there a color that is considered most desirable?
    Dave
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