<head><style>body{font-size:10pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;background-color:#ffffff;color:black;}p{margin:0px;}</style></head><body><font color="#000000"><font size="2"><font face="arial,sans-serif"> Mike, you are absolutely correct. You can buy a complete car for less than the cost of a build. Bill 1362<br></font></font></font><blockquote style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid">-----Original Message-----
<br>From: Sean Korb <spkorb@gmail.com>
<br>Sent: Nov 9, 2013 9:42 AM
<br>To: "detomaso@poca.com" <detomaso@poca.com>
<br>Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] High priced Pantera for sale
<br><br><div dir="ltr"><div>It's something I struggle a bit with. To get a car to be drivable and safe is a fairly minimal investment and it's very satisfying for me. To make it nice enough for show and sale is at least 500% of that same investment and effort and much more if it is destined for concourse competition. I accept that as true, but it still baffles me.<br>
<br></div>sean<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Nov 9, 2013 at 7:59 AM, John Taphorn <span dir="ltr"><<a target="_blank" href="mailto:jtaphorn@kingwoodcable.com">jtaphorn@kingwoodcable.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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True, this was a someone's vision of a perfect Pantera with no
expense spared. I suspect he does have at least that much $$ in
it. Just wrapping up the restoration of my GT5, I recognize the
hours spent to accomplish reasonable work. However, every element
of this car looks to have perfect execution. It may not be to
everyone's taste or have another's dream Pantera elements, but there
appear to be no financial or effort compromises in the restoration.
Very few Few Panteras are retored to this level.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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JT</font></span><div><div class="h5"><br>
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<div>On <a href="tel:11/8/2013">11/8/2013</a> 7:40 PM, <a target="_blank" href="mailto:MikeLDrew@aol.com">MikeLDrew@aol.com</a>
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In a message dated <a href="tel:11/8/13 15 49 17">11/8/13 15 49 17</a>,
<a target="_blank" href="mailto:jtaphorn@kingwoodcable.com">jtaphorn@kingwoodcable.com</a> writes:<br>
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<blockquote style="BORDER-LEFT:#0000ff 2px solid;MARGIN-LEFT:5px;MARGIN-RIGHT:0px;PADDING-LEFT:5px" type="CITE"><font color="#000000" face="Geneva">They didn't cut any corners putting
that car together. Lots of $$$ traded hands with that
restorer.<br>
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>>>Oh yeah, for sure!<br>
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This just illustrates the point that if you want a car like
this, you are way, WAY better off buying one that's already
done. This guy has a buy-it-now price of $140K, and judging
by the appearance of the car, he may well has spent that much
on it. But there's no way he's going to get anywhere near
that much for it if he sells it--he's going to take a
financial beating.<br>
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If somebody has infinitely deep pockets, and more importantly,
plans on keeping the resulting car forever, he can perhaps
justify going to somebody like Don Byars and having a car
built like that, to his exact specifications, with every bell
and whistle imaginable. Regardless of how much it costs him,
he hasn't 'lost' anything until he tries to sell it.<br>
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But for most people, if they want to have a car like that,
they are way better off finding somebody who is in some sort
of distress and feels the need to dispose of their blinged-out
Pantera. It enables you to buy something like this for a
fraction of the cost to build it. Okay, so maybe you would
prefer a yellow car rather than red, but if it means paying
double to build one from scratch, most people can learn to
live with the red!<br>
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Mike</font>
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