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Originally posted by phill1:
Dear Jay Holt,
The comments offered by the famous Jay Allen are right on the money. Just last week a guy came to see me after he had purchased a 71 Pushbutton Pantera, a fairly rare car. He was all smiles. I looked it over carefully and found he has very small but meaningful rust/paint issues: on a rocker panel, paint bubbles on both front lower fenders, that he "thought" were just "minor" items. Proper repairs will likely require a complete repaint and proper (cut out old metal-replace with new--sanding to bare metal rust inhibitors etc.) body repairs before the repaint. His car is running a bit hot, so a new radiator, high flow water pump,new fans and replace rubber and metal coolant lines and so on. This alone is a 10K to 15k bit of work. So his 27k car is now a 37k to 41k car. Panteras are NOT cheap but there are a lot of dopes out there who find out to their suprise that they have to dump 30 to 40 thousand just to bring the car up to acceptable standards. I have found that someone must really love the car above alternatives for ownership to make sense.
Otherwise, a 20k Corvette makes far more sense. But for those of us who look at the car and revel in it's style and the V8 growling away, it is a car in a class by itself.
[This message has been edited by phill1 (edited 11-21-2003).]
I believe that the pantera is the car for me, I'm just going to learn as much as I can before I purchase. Thanks for all the advice keep it coming. Thanks again , Jay Holt