Reply to "#9178 For Sale"

No guys, I'm serious. For me it's time to move on car wise. I will always be a lover of Pantera and those that own them. I'm not really going anywhere, I'm just moving on to a different platform of a car. I still intend, with George's blessings, to be the Advertising & Events manager for PI. George and I have talked and this is what we both want. But.......

I look at what it costs to go fast, the limitations of the Pantera and what I have into my Pantera and the cost of going faster. I can do better for the money I spend. I'm not going to spend 13+ grand for a motor that produces 600+ HP that will only tear the Pantera apart, and never mind the gearbox B/S that goes along with it, or be held up any longer by Pantera vendors. I'm not into show cars or a couch kind of guy. I drive hard and fast, that's who I am. I take the I-17 interchange into the 101 interchange at 110 mph looking for more. Just isn't there with the Pantera. With the Pantera, I feel like I'm just wagging my tail.

I've decided to join the younger generation that really goes fast, has fun doing it, parts are plentiful, that you don't have to take a loan out to buy or kiss anyone's ass along the way. These are the guys that really drive their cars. I meet them everyday, race with them, eat with them and see what they're doing and it works. I'm going there too.

I'm going to build an NSX, 550 HP car which is truly a race car with formula 1 technology and will run circles around my, or any Pantera no matter who builds your motor for 13+ thousand dollars. I'll build a car, all said and done, for $65,000.00 that will do exactly that.

This is where I need to be. Maybe in another 20 years, I'll need to be nostalgic, sit on the couch and talk about yesterday having spent 100,000+ dollars on a Pantera that is nothing more than a show car, but not now, now is reality for me, for tomorrow I may be dead.

It's not personal guys, it's just time to move on and live in today’s world for me. I'm tired of throwing my money into a car of yesterday, to me it's a pit of no return for the desired performance, the costs are far too much for what is achieved.

The Pantera is for sale......
This is what I'm going to build.