BMW powered Pantera from Sweden..

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Originally posted by Thoberg68:
Here is something for your eyes and ears.
It´s a De Tomaso -72 Pantera, powered by a 4,6l BMW Alpina V8 all aluminium engine.Everything that is done to this car is done by father and son Lars and Erik Bodin-Ek from Stockholm/Sweden. They have built their own injection system and the exhaustsystem is also custom-made by themselves.With these "modifications" the engine delivers around 400+hp.The Alpina engine is new for this season. The last years they have had the slightly smaller 4,0l engine from a BMW 540.
The total weight of the car is around 1170kg featuring carbon-fibre lids in the front and in the rear, and the seats are carbon-fibre seats from a Lotus car.

Of course they have saved the old Ford engine to make it possible to put the car back in it´s original shape again.

I hope you enjoy this car as much as i do..
here is the link to the film i maked:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...feature=channel_page

If you want to see some more, you can go to their own homepage WWW.BODINECC.COM

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Originally posted by comp2:
I think it takes the "HOT ROD" out of the car.

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Originally posted by Panther:

For me, that's a good thing.
Maybe the car would've been taken more seriously..and be worth more with a BMW factory engine.
I know deTomaso used BMW engines later in life...
FWIW.

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Originally posted by Panther:

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Originally posted by comp2:
I think it takes the "HOT ROD" out of the car.

For me, that's a good thing.
Maybe the car would've been taken more seriously..and be worth more with a BMW factory engine.
I know deTomaso used BMW engines later in life...
FWIW.

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Originally posted by Hustler:

It does sound good, but better than a clevor at full song? That is highly subjective. Maybe they should have dropped in the 427 SOHC, then maybe people would have taken it more seriously lol.

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Originally posted by comp2:

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Originally posted by Hustler:

It does sound good, but better than a clevor at full song? That is highly subjective. Maybe they should have dropped in the 427 SOHC, then maybe people would have taken it more seriously lol.

I have always seen the Pantera as a having a real engine and a real heart vs some of these ricers and small engine cars. When they move to a small cube higher revving engine I just lose interest.

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My choice would be the current M5 or M6 500+HP V10 BMW engine...