Cars the Pantera gets confused for.....

the worse for me I think was a Brinklen and maybe a deLorean

de tomaso => il pomodoro Now that's funny

Oh I forgot to mention was once called sheer Pornography

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the worse for me I think was a Brinklen and maybe a deLorean

I get around that by parking with a Bricklin a Delorean and sometimes a Fiero ...

If the car viewing public is having trouble telling the difference between the Pantera and the Delorean, there's a trick tell which is which ... Look at the crowd around the car, Panteras attract a very different audience than Deloreans!

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Originally posted by #5754:
If the car viewing public is having trouble telling the difference between the Pantera and the Delorean, there's a trick tell which is which ... Look at the crowd around the car, Panteras attract a very different audience than Deloreans!

excellent candid photo!!!!

I think the tomato reference is an UK pronunciation issue. DeTomaso does sort of sound like TOMATO as they pronounce it in the UK. I have never had that problem here in the USA. LOL

Someone asked me what it was. I pointed to the script that said Detomaso Pantera, and he said, "no, that's not it."

Another time a young guy came up to me and asked me if it was alright to show it to his girlfriend. I said sure.

He came back with her and showed her the car. He asked her if she liked it. She got all pissy and "said sure, but what's the big deal? It's a Camaro".

We just looked at each other and said nothing and we both had a "what's the use" expression on our faces? I sure hope she was worth it?

My neighbor thinks it's a Lamborghini because that's all he can remember.

Fiero, Kit car. I overheard a guy at a gas station telling his son it was a kit car, I told him it was a production car, well he was one of the gifted ones who then said "no it is not".
I like walking up to Fieros with my wife or my Pantera buddies and say "oh look guys a Pantera!"
Jeff

yesterday i got, lotus, kit car nd replica in the same sentence.

My red GP4 mostly gets mistaken for a Lambo because of the wing. Sometimes, I hear Ferrari or kit car.

My Pantera in bare metal/under process has been called "Lancia"

Someone once asked me if my Pantera was a kit and I said: "Oh no, this is a real one."

I doubt they knew what it was...but their attitude/disposition changed for the positive...as if they were seeing something truely rare (and at least in North Carolina, they were).

I also get the "Kit Car?" or "Lambo?" question.

One funny thing I have found is that when I drive down the motor way a lot of people sit right up my arse trying to read the script.

While parking at my local bank, a guy comes running out with his camera(who runs out of a bank?). The guy starts taking pictures while shouting "a new GT40...a new GT40". At least I'm in good company...

So, when they ask (or tell) you if it's a Kit Car, tell them, "Yeah, it's a replica of a Pantera. It's pretty spot on, don't you think?"

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Originally posted by garth66:
So, when they ask (or tell) you if it's a Kit Car, tell them, "Yeah, it's a replica of a Pantera. It's pretty spot on, don't you think?"

Hahaha that's a good one, I going to use that.

Maserati Bora...Mark

When sitting at the traffic lights I often have guys lean out of their car window & say "what is it?"
I reply with "Detomaso Pantera".
Nine times out of ten they give me a blank look or a simple "Huh?"
I generally reply with "its Italian".

I then get a smile & a nod of the head, sort of like "OK, that explains it then".

At petrol stations I often have guys come up & start chatting, often they are wanting to impress me with their knowledge of the car.
Statements like, "so it still has the orginal 351 fitted?"

Here in Perth a Pantera is a fairly rare car with at best only around 6 examples in the state of Western Australia.
(you could fit Texas into Western Australia several times & still have space for Europe!)

So it takes a die hard car nut to know what the car really is.

regards,
Tony.

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(you could fit Texas into Western Australia several times & still have space for Europe!)

Hey hey hey! Europe alone is more SQ Miles than the tiny Australia! Have you had too much heat, or were you kicked by a kangoroo?

We drink a lot of kangaroo juice down this way so maybe he was kicked trying to milk one? WA is a big place though.

Here you go.
Europe in Australia & WA is hardly touched.
Actually when I got home this evening there was a massive Kangaroo drinking out of the bird bath.
Not game to get that close to big suckers like him & get my head kicked in!

regards,
Tony.

Edge, not sure where you learned map manipulation, but Sq Miles:
Europe 3.9M
Australia 3.0M

The facts, Watson, the facts if you please...

Well, that map is missing all of the Northern Europe and most of the Eastern as well...

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Originally posted by No Quarter:
Edge, not sure where you learned map manipulation, but Sq Miles:
Europe 3.9M
Australia 3.0M

The facts, Watson, the facts if you please...

But we have Russell Crowe and his ego covers the difference.

Yeah, I kind of thought that Scandinavia is part of Europe?

Besides, we got Kimi Räikkönen and he is driving for Ferrari this season...

Not only did you leave out Scandanavia but Russia and Ukraine as well. If you know Russell, maybe he can help you get into acting? How can I say this PanteraWalaby? Geography...well, it just ain't you?

Well the map is something I found online, I didn't create it.
Haha, I knew I would get myself in trouble with this one!
As you can see there are as many gaps as there are European countries stuffed into Australia.
Russia is generally not considered part of Europe, politically speaking.
But hey, it was an off hand comment & was not meant to be taken this literally.
I was simply stating how big Western Australia is & our lack of Panteras in this state.

(And we do have Russell Crowe, although he really is a Kiwi!)

regards,
Tony.

i do not comment , i'm from Belgium... try to find us ...

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Originally posted by PanteraDoug:
Not only did you leave out Scandanavia but Russia and Ukraine as well. If you know Russell, maybe he can help you get into acting? How can I say this PanteraWalaby? Geography...well, it just ain't you?

Hey I didn't say anything, keep me outa this!! Don't make me steal the chokes out of your webers!

Today, I pulled into a local convenience store in my Pantera to grab a soda before heading to the local Memorial Day Car Show. As I am walking across the parking lot a guy walks up to me and says, "Is that some sort of Ferrari or a Lamborghini?"

I replied, "No, it is a DeTomaso." The guy says, "Oh...., I was sure it was a Ferrari or a Lamborghini."

We talked for a few more minutes and the the guy turned to walk away and said, "it kind of looks like a Pantera too."

Funny.

Have a great weekend everyone.

Devin

I think like most owners, I've heard them all... The most complimentary I've had are "is that a 68 lambo?" and "is that a vintage Ferrari?" and of course " beautiful Pantera"

Th worst... "Is that a delorean" or "kit car" YUK !...

when I went to register mine years ago in CT the DMV (Dumb Mother V (5 year old)) took out his pocket knife and started to get within an inch of the rear decklid to pry off the Ford emblem and said "we dont do kit cars here". I grabbed his arm and stated if you scratch the car you will repaint it! I then pulled him away from it so hard... I wanted to jerk his arm out of the socket, (some of you guys/gals know how big I am) and I said go get your supervisor... who knew what the car was thank God!

One last one at a car show two 20 somethings walked up and said "Wow they named a car after the band!" I just laughed.

Hi all,
Just today I had my car out of the garage idling, a very nice neighbor in his late 60's approached me to tell me that he has a '71 Corvette (I have a 71 pushbutton). He then added he bought it in place of a pantera in the day because of the mixed press reports. It seems no day has past by that he did not regret the choice. He was at Mecum in Indy to try and buy the red one that was sold last week. Too bad he didn't get it. Just as I was chatting a neighbor past by to compliment my "GTO".

I get asked quite often if it's a Maserati.

am amazed how may kiwis that know what the car is, though if they don't its is that a kit car and is that the original engine and is it fiber glass.