Reply to "Dave Kindig (Bitchin Rides) is going to do a Pantera on an upcoming episode"

Kindig always seems to "start" with an original car and then cut.  I wonder if that is because the original Pantera s/n and i.d. is retained and the owner can continue to say "it's an original 71 P" and Kindig's approach is to always use an original car as the basis - just his approach to customizing I guess.  Having flared my car to Gp IV, I am not in a position to throw stones as we that have modified our cars are only different shades apart.  I do agree with the comment that it "seems" Pantera's as a marque have had a fair amount of heavy customization by their owners as opposed to say the Ferrari or Lamborghini crowd, I assume because until recently, the cars were relatively inexpensive / unwanted relative to the other Italian marques.  Perhaps that is changing now.