<div dir="ltr">IMHO<div><br></div><div>there are 6 kinds of running Panteras</div><div><br></div><div>1) All Original</div><div>2) Mildly Modified with removeable elements where originality is attainable</div><div>3) Mechanically Modified ( not easily reversable) while maintaining an Original look</div>
<div>4) Highly Modified in both Ext appearence and/or Mechanically</div><div>5) A clone of a GTS, GT4, GT5, etc.</div><div>6) I started with a Pantera.........</div><div><br></div><div>Michael Shortt ( I'd consider mine in the 3rd category )</div>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 1:29 PM, Bill Lewis <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lotus0005@hotmail.com" target="_blank">lotus0005@hotmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div><div dir="ltr">I hope that the Pantera folks don't start getting roiling underwear about originality in Panteras. We would all be sunk then! ---BILL Lewis<br><br><div><hr>From: <a href="mailto:michael@michaelshortt.com" target="_blank">michael@michaelshortt.com</a><br>
Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2014 13:17:58 -0500<br>To: <a href="mailto:detomaso@poca.com" target="_blank">detomaso@poca.com</a><br>Subject: [DeTomaso] Autoweek online Mention<div><div class="h5"><br><br><div dir="ltr"><br clear="all">
<div>In a story about aJan auctions, Mecum vs BJ.</div><div><br></div><div><h2 style="vertical-align:baseline;line-height:18px;font-size:18px;font-family:sans-serif,Arial,Helvetica;font-weight:normal;border:0px;padding:0px">
DeTomaso Pantera</h2><p style="vertical-align:baseline;line-height:18px;font-size:12px;font-family:sans-serif,Arial,Helvetica;border:0px;padding:0px"></p><p style="vertical-align:baseline;line-height:18px;font-size:12px;font-family:sans-serif,Arial,Helvetica;border:0px;padding:0px">
At Mecum, <a href="http://www.mecum.com/auctions/lot_detail.cfm?LOT_ID=FL0114-172060&entryRow=2893" style="padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(187,49,0);text-decoration:none" target="_blank">you'd have paid $49,500</a> to take home a 1974 example of the increasingly desirable Pantera. At Barrett-Jackson, a 1971 car <a href="http://www.barrett-jackson.com/application/onlinesubmission/lotdetails.aspx?ln=1650&aid=525" style="padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(187,49,0);text-decoration:none" target="_blank">would have set you back $48,400</a>. The difference is originality -- the early B-J car is tuned, to put it mildly, with flashy five-spokes and a nitrous-oxide system. Depending on your perspective, this is either a huge improvement or an unacceptable desecration. Compare that to the “highly original” Mecum car.</p>
<p style="vertical-align:baseline;line-height:18px;font-size:12px;font-family:sans-serif,Arial,Helvetica;border:0px;padding:0px"></p><p style="vertical-align:baseline;line-height:18px;font-size:12px;font-family:sans-serif,Arial,Helvetica;border:0px;padding:0px">
<b style="padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent">Winner:</b> We'd vote for the unmolested car at Mecum, but that's personal preference at play. This one's inconclusive.</p>
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Michael Shortt</p></div>-- <br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br>Michael L. Shortt<br>Savannah, Georgia<br><a href="http://www.michaelshortt.com" target="_blank">www.michaelshortt.com</a><br><a href="mailto:michael@michaelshortt.com" target="_blank">michael@michaelshortt.com</a><br>
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