quote:Originally posted by cat7195:
Congratulations! Nice looking car.
Try to find your wheels locally to avoid shipping costs. There's plenty of them out there.
The cars came with 7's on the fronts and 8's on the rear. If you go to 8's all around, make sure they match. There's several variations of the wheels.
I presume that you know that there is a reason that the Pantera uses stock 7" front wheels and 8" rear wheels?
You may be new to the Detomasos so let me just pass this along under the presumption that you are and was unaware.
The execution of the mid-engine concept in the Mangusta and the Pantera is similar.
When the Mangusta was first produced Ford passed on sponsering it for a bunch of reasons but trailing throttle oversteer was a major one.
To put it in a nutshell, in order to keep the rear from coming around and passing the front, the major part of the fix was to have wider wheels in the rear then the front.
The production Pantera continued this concept and the fix with 7 and 8" wide rims.
If there is anything that you do to the car it is imperative that one maintains the proportion of the width ratios front to back.
Trailing throttle oversteer should be considered lethal.