OK, I have heard the opinions of people I respect in the community that there are between 2000 and 3000 Panteras surviving world wide. I am begining to question that and here is why. I thought for a long time I was the only Pantera in Johnson City, Tennessee. Over the last ten years or so I have found that it just isn't true. First there was a guy I meet at a car show who loved my car so much he went out and found a rusted out hulk, restored it and had it for about five years and then sold it. Again, I found a guy here localy who has owned Panteras for over 30 years now and in fact is sort of an urban legend here in the hills with his exploits pitting himself against local law enforcement throuout the region. His legend is still talked about in rapt whispers even though he has not continued in this fashion for over twenty of those years. He has made the Pantera rank amongst the ghost stories in prominance in the area. Just last week my son-in-law ran across yet another Pantera ensconsed in a local garage along with other legendary Ford Muscle and exotica, such as 69 428 Drag-pack Mustang, 2005 Ford GT etc. But there it was, a 1971, red example. Sitting there in that multi-car treasury.
Therefore, given this is but one isolated and rather unpopulated environment, and further extrapolating that this is in no way unique, it is my contention, that LESS that one thousand Panteras are actualy dead. I say that OVER HALF are just missing in action and that probably more than FOUR-THOUSAND Panteras are alive today!!!!!!
I know this is a controversy ranking right up there with cloning dinosaurs and life on other planets, but by gum, I belive from my experience, that they do in deed, LIVE AMONGST US!!!
Disscuss amou
ngst yourselves.
