Reply to "Pantera #7001 - Back on eBay"

Every state is different as far as "burning the title".
NY isn't even a title state until the '73 model year.
I think it is required for the '96 model year and up.

As far as the condition of this car, I didn't think it was saveable.
Whoever did it is very talented with the frame machine.

The unibody on the Pantera is hard to push or pull withut tearing it up.

The real problem was with the roof, front pillar.
The pictures look like it came out really well.
The left door, pillar, front fender had to be replaced. Maybe the rear quarter as well.

I don't think the rear deck was saveable.

The floor was bent, there was no rocker left, I think the windshield died too.

If it was done well, professionally or not, the amount of filler in the car should be minimal. Basically to cover the hammer marks that don't pop out when the sheetmetal pops back.

It has to have a lot of "replacement" sheetmetal in the car.

There may be other "minor issues as far as alighment and some kinked suspension components and mounting points. These cars bend up easy.

Because of the direction of the impact, 11 o clock, the roof/deck alighnment is where it will be difficult, if not impossible to straighten the car to where it was.

The pictures look nice. Make sure you look at the floor pan from underneath and the pillar posts.

You will also get cracking in the quarter roof on non recked Panteras. The new paint doesn't want to stretch there for some reason and cracks.

Virtually ever Pantera that I have seen that has been repainted, even stripped to metal and painted, cracks there in the paint.

The car is black and will show the slightest imperfection. What do the rear inner fenders look like? They would buckle somehow in an impact like this also.

These guys probably specialize in bringing back wrecks but the retail value of that work has got to be in the $85,000 to $100,000 area.

Just a front fender is around $30,000.