I agree here with what all you guys are saying and I am just trying to make a point about repairs.
I have seen a couple of obviously very talented people with a chassis machine pop these unibody cars back.
It is absolutely amazing. You have to see it to believe it.
The fenders and door obviously were originally destroyed on the car. But the floor pans and roof can be popped out.
The hard part is not to get the unibody back, it is to get the deck to fit the roof. The original lines of the car are so fine that you are trying to meet perspective lines with the accuracy of a laser light.
As a matter of fact if you look at a lot of "original" Panteras, the decks cannot be made to meet the 1/4 roofs properly and still open.
The tolerences are just not there originally between the car and the decks. Check them out yourself.
When you do a new quarter panel, you alighn it with the "new" door" and front fender as a unit. It is possible to get the car tighter in this process then the factory did originally because you are bending eveything to fit.
All the experts were really saying is that for the probably $85k (or more)to go into it, it will only for sure bring $35k. The ODDS ARE that no one will do that.
If these cars brought $150k, then this car would have been rebuilt better then new. No one even needs to suggest it to me.
What a co-incidence that there is a picture of a damaged car that so resembles what is being sold? Small world.
