Fiberglass Body

Is this the one you are thinking of?

http://www.members.shaw.ca/david.p.brown/pantera.html

No, real body panels for real Pantera.
Fiberglass or Alloy ?

Regards
Phil

The Factory made aluminum parts for some of the race cars, hood, doors and rear deck.

Chuck

I don't remember who made them, but Gary Hall had a fibreglass shell at his shop in 1990. He probably knows the history of them.

Scott

The Hound from Hell Pantera drag car uses a fiberglass body. It was made by a firm in the San Diego area that is no longer in business. There are a few of them floating around.

And they were, I believe, Long & Newman (sp ?),
in San Marcos, Ca.

Some details found here:

http://www.members.shaw.ca/david.p.brown/pantera.html

Chuck

Dennis, from Pantera performance has one he races and a new body in his rafters. He said one day he would reproduce one. I told him I would take the first one he made. Long and Newman made a nice body a long time ago in the Long Beach, CA area. I used to have the brochures. They cost more than a real one! So I was forced to buy a real one!

One sold on e-bay not too long ago. If you track down the buyer he might be able to give you some info on it...

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Other-Makes-detomaso-pan...QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

John

There was a guy from Germany who posted here last year who offered to make a whole Pantera body out of carbon fiber. No one was interested at the time because of the big dollors involved.

Gentleman,

Long & Newman Enterprises(San Marcos ,Cal) built the GT-5 bodies (2) on Dennis Quella's race car , the David Brown(Canada) body ( a couple went to him and a friend) , the Lew Little Pantera "Funny Car" body is a L&N along with about a dozen others. These bodies were EXACT reproductions of a stock Pantera body shell. The body the molds were pulled from was a 1972-L # THPNML04371 which was the first Pantera I owned back in the 1977 - 1981 years.
I sold the complet car to Larry Cowell who then sold it to George Paliquin(SP) in Orange County California who ,last I heard, had sold the car to Steve Wilkinson ....???? not too sure on the last as I have not spoken to Steve about it.
The quality of these bodies was amazing!! Long & Newman also was the company who built the first GT-5 fiberglass kits back in the early 1980's. Hall Pantera was the first company to begin marketing GT-5 body parts and the all were made by Long & Newman for Gary for about 2 years then he switched to another fiberglass shop to build the parts and, in my opinion, the fit quality then went into the tank at that time.

Thanks for the info, Les.

For those that don't know, 'Guitar Man' is Les Gray out of Tempe, Arizona.

Hell of a nice guy, long time Pantera guru, and keeper of a bunch of parts should you be having trouble sourcing pieces for your Pantera.

Larry