Earlier it was the E-type that was the cheap exotic. I remember movies from the 70s and beyond, a Colombo show, Herbie, Convoy,several others, as soon as you saw an E-type (which I loved back then) you knew it was going to be wrecked. It was the half price exotic sportscar that the film producers could afford to wreck. In Herbie there's a scene where Herbie gets jealous of (IIRC) a red Ferrari, and next scene Herbie has smashed the car by running into it from all sides. But it was obviously an E-type that had been wrecked, not a Ferrari.
I know Panteras are not wrecked for fun, but they're clearly the starting point for many odd projects, that I doubt a Lambo or a Ferrari would be. To each his own, money talks etc., but I've never seen such a project and thought it was better than Tom Tjaarda's idea...
To me it's simple:
- If you want a Ford GT, buy a Ford GT
If you want a Shelby, buy a Shelby
If you want a Lambo, buy a Lambo
If you want an Audi R8, buy an Audi R8