Welcome!
With the recent interest in Panteras finding a "project" car is getting difficult. Even with your 50-60k initial budget. Keep a look out on this forum, Hemmings and evil-bay. They pop up on Craigslist occasionally as well as Bring-a-Trailer. You might also join the Detomaso forum (I access it using http://server.detomasolist.com/pipermail/detomaso/).
Where are you in NC?
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