[TPR] 1971 DeTomaso Pantera Nevada Open Road Champ « BaT - The best vintage and classic cars for sale online

[David]

Thanks, Mike!
I stumbled on that listing when a friend sent the yellow car advert. 

Cheers,

David

On Mar 26, 2011, at 1:12 AM, MikeLDrew at aol.com wrote:

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> In a message dated 3/25/11 9 23 35, teampantera at yahoo.com writes:
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>> Good question.....The closest anyone has averaged in a Pantera in any  orr anywhere is still  Junior Wilson.... and his best average was 177 about a year before he crashed his tube frame race Pantera in '97 when I was at NORC/Silver State.  
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>> He rebuilt it and sold it but Mike Drew should know. 
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> This is Junior Wilson's original Pantera.  He built it into a SS warrior but kept crashing due to exploding tires in the rear due to the car's excessive weight (for the tire technology at the time).  
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> He gave up, sold the Pantera and built a tube-frame replica using a real Pantera body (part of the chassis of that car is now in my car).
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> He later sold the replica to England, where the buyer evidently figure out it was much too radical for the street, and immediately put it up for sale again; I don't know where it is now.
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> The VIN on this black car for sale is in the 1400 range I think?
> 
> Mike
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