Reply to "Shelby Pantera"

No Pentstars on them.

No one has mentioned that they own the white one yet.

One owner in New Zealand claims to have one right now and BelgiumBarry has documentation with his car that shows Shelby ownership.

We know there were at least two and now sounds like a third.

Kirk Evans had the cars shipped to him for US certification.

I don't remember him posting about them but at this point he could add quite a bit to the picture.

The magazine article being in black and white I think was showing a red car.

There were lots of red Panteras made.

I suppose much of the fun is doing detective work of something like this.

It's difficult to get information on Panteras and even more so on Mangustas.

I don't know if anyone has numbers on this but it would appear that only something like 1 or 2% of owners participate in places like this Forum which leaves the vast majority of cars as unknowns that occasionally get recognized by other Detomaso enthusiasts.

I would think that SAAC has got to be one of the most successful at finding the cars but consider the length of the time period involved and even so a large percentage of cars documented in the various registries have not been updated in 30 years by current owners.

It's a little like looking at distant stars in the sky.

A star that is 100 light years away could have exploded 99 years ago and we wouldn't know it yet since we are looking at light that was there 100 years ago.

Maybe those stars are just ancient history and don't exist any more?