[DeTomaso] Douglas Blain's 1971 car

[Isobel Punt]

Douglas Blain, a member of the de Tomaso mailing list for a number of years, is sadly selling his 1971 de Tomaso Pantera, having shown it several times to great acclaim and used it widely including a trip to the Picos de Europa in Northern Spain which was covered thoroughly in The Automobile magazine.

It is a beautiful and very original example of an early chrome bumper Pantera. Red with Black. Numbers matching Cleveland 351 and ZF transaxle.

This example stands out as being structurally excellent having spent much of its life in the gentle Californian climate and showing only 35000 miles covered in total. Complete recent service including new main bearings, all fluids and air con recharge carried out.

A few practical improvements include relocating the spare tyre to the front, freeing up rear luggage space and installation of discrete high intensity driving lights for evening safety without the need to raise the headlights. An increasingly rare opportunity to acquire a properly sorted and unmolested early pre L, Tom Tjaarda designed De Tomaso Pantera.  Douglas and his co-owner were actually friends of Tom's and saw him in Torino shortly before he died and Douglas was very friendly with Giampaolo Dallara, who of course was responsible for the engineering.


More information can be found at:

www.legendsautomotive.co.uk<http://www.legendsautomotive.co.uk/>

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   Douglas Blain, a member of the de Tomaso mailing list for a number of
   years, is sadly selling his 1971 de Tomaso Pantera, having shown it
   several times to great acclaim and used it widely including a trip to
   the Picos de Europa in Northern Spain which was covered thoroughly
   in The Automobile magazine.

   It is a beautiful and very original example of an early chrome bumper
   Pantera. Red with Black. Numbers matching Cleveland 351 and ZF
   transaxle.

   This example stands out as being structurally excellent having spent
   much of its life in the gentle Californian climate and showing only
   35000 miles covered in total. Complete recent service including new
   main bearings, all fluids and air con recharge carried out.

   A few practical improvements include relocating the spare tyre to the
   front, freeing up rear luggage space and installation of discrete high
   intensity driving lights for evening safety without the need to raise
   the headlights. An increasingly rare opportunity to acquire a properly
   sorted and unmolested early pre L, Tom Tjaarda designed De Tomaso
   Pantera.  Douglas and his co-owner were actually friends of Tom's and
   saw him in Torino shortly before he died and Douglas was very friendly
   with Giampaolo Dallara, who of course was responsible for the
   engineering.

   More information can be found at:
   [1]www.legendsautomotive.co.uk

References

   1. http://www.legendsautomotive.co.uk/