Reply to "Pantera #7206 - GTS"

David B,

To answer your question, the type of Pantera owner I plan to be would be a combination of what you said in #2,#3, and #4 in your post.

My future Pantera will always be garaged when I'm not driving it and never driven on rainy days. I plan to drive the car 5000 miles or more per year. I hope to find a Pantera that has already been substantially upgraded mechanically for reliability. My dream Pantera would be a GT5-S that has been built to sound loud and mean so when I drive off my neighbors windows would rattle. (I say a little harmless mischief is a good thing.)

A couple of years back I went to P.I. Motorsports to look at black Grp4 tribute with a 427 hammer engine. They fired the car up for me. Wow that car sounded absolutely ferocious, it was almost frightening. It would be great to find a GT5-S with a 427 hammer or something like that. But if not, I'll buy the nicest car I can find and possibly upgrade the motor eventually. Dave Adler told me although the 427 hammer engine pushes 600 hp, the engine is quite tractable and can be street driven no problem.

My goal would be to be the best caretaker of a Pantera that I could possbily be. Eventually when I sell, I want the future owner to enjoy the car as much as I did.

David