Reply to "WINGS! Is there a link to pics of the different wings people have chosen to run?"

There was a road test in the '80s with a GT-5 in England at one of their famous tracks. The magazine guys ran the car with & without the rear wing. They said the car felt the same either way but their lap times with the wing- surprisingly- were several seconds faster. This is the only back-to-back test on a Pantera I've ever seen printed.

Silver State runners are the only ones that really know the effects of properly mounted wings- which may not be at the stock mount angle. With an effective front air dam, one successful SS runner said his '73 really needed a small NASCAR-type rear blade, carefully angled, to rebalance the thing over 175. Otherwise, the rear end began to get light. This is exactly what happened during the famous magazine top-end test of a Countache vs a Ferrari Boxer at the 5 mile long banked Ohio test track: without the wing, the Countache picked up 15 mph but left black marks on the track at 180 mph swapping lanes as the rear end jiggled around. The pro driver said he would not make a second try without the wing! Ferrari declined to remove their rear spoiler. Oversteer at those speeds will give you religion.... And Nor-Cal's Bob Bensen still swears his big dirt-based wing helps in high speed runs on his '71 Pantera. Obviously if you don't spend much time way up the speedo dial, a rear wing will be so much decoration. But it appears as if they do have a place for a few.