Reply to "Ideas for making the Pantera lighter?"

When I was working in aerospace, the company rule of thumb for weight reductions within a given design was about $1000/lb removed. An article on automotive design once said Detroit's costs in the '90s was about $100/lb removed. So your costs for making a 45-year old sports GT lighter will likely be somewhere in between those two numbers The more you can do yourself and the more patience you use, the closer to the low end of the range your project will be, I suspect. Decades ago, my goal for a laregly unaltered narrow body '72 Pantera was 2650 lbs, and I am now at 2690lbs with a 50-lb lighter aluminum block in the garage, waiting for the $$$$ to finish it. So that number seem within reach but remember, I have an pretty well equipped machine shop in my garage and I've been at this on our Pantera for 28 years & owned it for 38 yrs. We will NOT talk about how much money was involved!