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As long as you're satisfied with stock width rotors, Wilwood also makes a mechanical caliper (for go-karts) that can be adapted to a Pantera as a legal parking brake. The sliding Wilwood caliper is not expensive but there are two drawbacks: first, no one (except Pantera East who may have discontinued the item) makes mounting brackets, so you'll probably have to do your own. And the assembly is a racing caliper so the pads & backing are loose in the caliper, which rattles. If that bothers you, it may take more engineering to stop the little jingles from back there.
I adapted a pair of the Wilwood mechanicals to our Pantera in '97-98 when I did a wholesale brake upgrade (front & rear calipers, 4 vented rotors, aeroquip lines & a GM power booster/master cylinder) that replaced the stock rear calipers & e-brakes, and they still work well on their original pads. They use stock Pantera e-brake cables and another little pair of home-made brackets to anchor the cable ends.

3/3/1211:51 PM

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