A friend of mine (he restored the body on my Giulia racer) did the last
Cannonball (not the current emasculated version) in one! Still has it
and another.
Jim
Edwin Smith wrote:
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> They try......the one's I've seen rarely make it thru a race.....seem to be =
> prone to breaking, overheating, etc......the local Pantera club seems to val=
> ue metalflake and chromium more than race mods.....this is not a intentional=
> knock on Panteras....some of my best friends have owned Panteras......hell,=
> my sister went out with a Pantera......:)
> Ted
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> Date: 17 Feb 99 14:24:55
> From:Gavin Ivory <G_Ivory@beutel-can.com>
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> Subject:do pantera's vintage race?
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> OK, I'll drop another naive question onto the list: does anybody vintage
> race the early de Tomaso Pantera's? If not, is there a good reason? I hear
> that driving them quickly can be a handful. Just curious, since they seem to
> be the Italian equivalent of V8 powered TVR's, and they first appeared when
> I was a drueling young teenager. The guy in the showroom told me not to
> touch what I couldn't pay for ... a line I didn't hear again until a
> friend's stag years later.
> Gavin Ivory
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