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Originally posted by George P:
Please no "originality vs custom" debate or comments.



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Originally posted by George P:Some were put-off by other recent custom Panteras. From what I've observed Chip's car will be as equally tasteful as Richard's.


You're banned! Smiler

From the recent article in R&T, to the Pantera being featured on 'What's My Car Worth', to Chip Foose loving on the car and doing his tasteful best, clearly Panteras are enjoying some deserved positive attention.

Great stuff. Hope the Foose car gets televised.

George, I bet an email from you inviting Chip is all it'd take. Surely someone on this Forum can forward to him.
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Originally posted by Marlin Jack:
...Side Marker Lights are There for a Reason!
Sure, I agree! 'Shaved' Side Lights Look Very Cool!...Until, at Night, You get 'T-Boned' in an Intersection!!


That may be the intent, but in practice, IMHO, they'll do nothing to prevent getting T-boned. They don't give off enough light, although, switching to LEDs may help. If somebody can't see headlights and this mass of metal in front of them between e-mails, texts, tweets and phone calls you're just gonna get hit. The one good use is if they are used as side turn signal indicators. JTs are quite nice. A great bit of detail. Someone mentioned that they had seen a car where the lens were the same color of the car but wouldn't give out the proprietary details on how it was done. In most cases I imagine it isn't done because of inspection/state requirement restrictions.
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Originally posted by Dave2811:
Interesting treatment of the headers. A toss back to the original design. I see that he is staying very close to the original design in a lot of the components.


I guess modern Magnaflow has not done any better than vintage Ghia/DeTomaso/ANSA. I was hoping for 180s. Let's wait and see/hear if sound is different.
It looks like Chip Foose will be using 15" wheels/tires on his Pantera. If you look at the attached photo, the tires in question are Pirelli P7 Corsa Classics. I assume he'd use 235/45-VR15 in the front but the tires in the photo, which must be the rears, are 305/35-VR15. Seems a bit short to me.

Pirelli makes the P7 Corsa Classic in a 315/40-VR16, which would work for people who wanted to run their OEM wheels on the front and 16" Campi replicas at the rear.

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Early cars including my 1464 had rear mounted ZF's only instead of the later side mounts.
These cars tended to snap the studs off of the rear of the ZF with heavy acceleration, which is how my car arrived.
The ZF is easily converted to side mounts with kits from Hall, IPSCO, etc. which is a much sturdier mount, and doesn't sacrifice the rear studs on the ZF.
Somebody should tell Chip the first time he gets on the gas really hard he risks snapping the rear studs on the ZF with a rear mount.

Mike
Hey Mike and thanks! Running the risk of hijacking this thread though is it possible to have both side and rear mounts? I had a look at mine this morning in the workshop and it's got the rear mount still there but also had a side mount that looked a lot like the Hall Pantera kit as well? I'll have to get a photo up on the build thread I've got going on 1424 and get it checked.

M.

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