Reply to "#2636 Road to restoration"

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Originally posted by Rob Borruso:
Congrats and Welcome Jerry. Kirk is a fantastic guy with a ton of knowledge and history with these cars. It's cool to see he is going to help you achieve your dream with 2636. Looking forward to seeing the progress pics/story. ;-)

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Back to #2636 1972 Pantera

As fate would have it, my son and I were looking for a projest car. A friend had a 67 Camaro for sale so we went to look at it. I had heard he was storing a Pantera and figured it was a driver and not for sale. When we got there I saw the condition of the Pantera. It was covered with who knows what, ( you couldn’t see through the windows) , covering a lot of surface rust, partially disassembled engine ( no carb or exhaust) , Undercarriage had flaking rock hard thick undercoating ( I owned a 77 Porsche with the same undercoating so I know what it can hide) and no way to properly get under the car. I had to see if I could rescue/buy it.( what Camaro LOL) Turns out a couple other people were already kicking tires. So after quickly looking it over I made my best offer.

After a couple of weeks of negotiation and nervous waiting I own it. Turns out I worked on this exact car and drove it when I was a 22 year old greenhorn mechanic. I think the paint went bad and into storage it went (my deduction) So it just vanished)

I didn't waste any time, got educated ( as much as you can in a few weeks ) and tore into it, It will be a father/son project. Both of us are experience technicians so it will be a fun project. The mechanical didn’t worry me but the body did. We know very little about body work and less about rust repair. So I started looking for someone local to evaluate the body.

First order of business vig