Reply to "Gt4 's questions"

The first Group 4 Pantera #2263 was sold to De Tomaso Spain. It was crashed at Monza in 1972. It was dismantled at sat behind the factory in a junk pile until about 1980. Black & white pictures of it sitting in that junk pile at the factory have circulated for decades. The factory is quoted to have claimed the car was eventually discarded (by Olczyk in his book “De Tomaso Macchine da Corsa”). However, there is evidence the car was rebuilt as a GT5 and given a new VIN number, i.e. chassis #8263.

People fail to notice that in the picture of #2263 sitting in the junk pile there is what appears to be a second Group 4 Pantera sitting next to it! The questions are, which Group 4 Pantera is the second one in the picture and what happened to it? That second car may have been repaired and re-numbered #4829.

Amongst the entire lot of Group 4 cars (there were 14 built) there are two for which little information is available, chassis #2859 and #2861.