[DeTomaso] Fwd: 1971 DeTomaso Pantera | R320 | Monterey 2021

[Mike Drew]

Guys,

Ouch. Check this out:

https://www.mecum.com/lots/CA0821-465375/1971-detomaso-pantera/

This car was purchased by a longtime PCNC ‘stealth’ member at auction a few years ago. At the time it had some mildly unfortunate modifications including blacked out bumpers (but not trim). The owner set out to return it to stock, including fitting a good stock steering wheel he sourced from me. I drove to his place and met him for the first (and only) time and installed it.  I took the pics in the registry that show it among his other cars including Mazda Cosmos. Down the row was a very nice Mangusta too. 

Subsequent to that date he obviously did a lot of work to return it to stock appearance.

Later pics seem to show it in an auction setting so maybe he was trying to sell it? I imagine if that’s true that the car was damaged loading or unloading off a truck associated with that enterprise. 

Sad…but it seems like a great project for anybody who can do metalwork? The underlying car was FANTASTIC, everything you would expect of an 11k mile mostly original car….

Mike