To answer Kevin's question, sure- if you have 'some' money and a lathe handy, it's possible to adapt BMW or Porsche CV-joint half-shafts to the Pantera. One early Pantera now in FL has a large number of BMW 635 parts in it including the 17" wheels & half-shafts- it was a basket-case restored with what was at hand, and the '91-93 Pantera 200 has CV joint half-shafts as stock. I'm not sure of the particular advantages of a CV vs a Hooke-type u-joint, but it is possible and it works.
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