IT BEGINS!

Gts look? I think it will be bad a$$!!

Mike

that looks totally sweet.

Please provide the details on what wrap you went with (e.g. carbon look or what) and who the manufacturer is - 3M?

I want to do the same.

Nice job

It is 3M satin black vinyl wrap. Applied by a local shop. It DOES look stunning IMO, I like the look a lot better.

NOW, the big question is, the rear hood, do I wrap the entire hood, or just the inside portion?

Doing just the inside portion keeps the original shape of the car visually, doing the entire hood changes the shape of the car visually. I CAN'T DECIDE!

Here's the look I'm aiming for

http://www.carpictures.com/veh...-GTS-Euro-Model-1973

Looks like I may be wrapping the entire rear hood.

I like the way this car looks as well.

I'm tempted to do my headlight covers in satin black too like the car in this vid.

For some reason, I think it looks really cool. Not sure though, but luckily, with the wraps, if you don't like it, you can just yank it right off!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2lpxCS6jTI

Maybe you could search around for a better version of this brochure, I think the factory had the best version of the overall blackout scheme. (I do have a slight bias)
http://www.ebay.com/itm/DE-TOM...L-RARE-/191517631863

How to get the front area right will be the tricky part.

The lower rockers will be interesting. Can you put a sticker on over the wrap or how are they going to do that? Cutting out the letters?

I think since my car's white, they'll cut the lettering out of the vinyl and pull them off, leaving the white lettering.

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Originally posted by mike the snake:
Here's the look I'm aiming for

http://www.carpictures.com/veh...-GTS-Euro-Model-1973

Looks like I may be wrapping the entire rear hood.

Mike, that was Paul Rimov's car, and, yes, it is stunning. Sadly, he sold it a few years back (and regrets it I think!). He and I were doing our restorations about the same time in the early '00s.

On a white car, the all black rear deck looks really nice. If you are going to do a partial (just the inner area), that could look nice too but I think there would be problems doing it with a wrap unless the edges could be sealed somehow. An alternative to wrapping for that might be the spray on wrap. For example:
http://www.eastwood.com/paints...tiwrap-coatings.html

I think i'll be wrapping the entire rear hood.

There's a big difference in looks when just the inside is done, leaving the original lines to show from the side view, and when you completely wrap the rear hood, the car takes on a different shape around the rear window post area.

I like both looks, but I think I'm going to do the entire rear hood in the same satin black material. Then it'll match, and along with the sides, and possibly the headlight covers like on the race car in the vid, my car will have a completely new look.

I want to personalize the car.

Got the rear trunk wrapped, just got it back this morning.

AGREE

how about some outside pics (with super models optional)

That may happen tonight actually!

I've been invited to a photos shoot at a motorcycle shop (custom choppers) where there's going to be lots of hot babes doing a big photo shoot, and maybe my car might get included, who knows. If I were the photographer, taking pics of chicks on choppers, and someone pulled in with my car, there's no way I'd leave without some shots of babes in all kinds of precarious positions all over that car! lol.

Just as long as they don't leave any dents, well, I guess there's maybe one or 2 certain circumstances where a small dent or two would be tolerated, but I'd have to be involved in it, and it would probably be NSFW.

We'll see what happens tonight.

Nice beginnings Mike, and please tell us that those chrome gills will be the next things that go Back to Black.......
Catch this photo and others on ProvaMo's "2015 Fuel Her Up" pages.

http://www.detomasoregistry.or...ts/2015FuelHerUp.asp

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Nice beginnings Mike, and please tell us that those chrome gills will be the next things that go Back to Black.

Yes, those will be going back to black. You know the saying, once you've had black,,,,, lol

I'm not a fan of the chrome fins.

Can I get new replacements? These have small chrome bubble imperfections.

I'm also considering adding scoops there, not sure if they cover the fins or not, haven't looked too deeply into that yet.

I spread the gills along with all the rest of the shinny pieces Satin Black! They look great! OR you can remove everything and send it out for Powder Coating at a higher cost.

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Can I get new replacements? These have small chrome bubble imperfections.

I've seen a number of gills like that, including my own. It might be a product of the original casting process and poor prep before paint, or just poor application of prior paint/topcoat. I recommend sanding them smooth, fill any remaining bubbles with Lab Metal or JB Weld, and powder coating.

If you add scoops, they replace the quarter windows, so the gills are still present and visible, as seen in this pic of Rich's car:

Wy windows are already gone, so that part's easy.

I was thinking of plastidipping the gills in satin black.

Heck, I might even be able to get them wrapped too.

Krylon satin black on the gills looks fine and is very easy. Two bolts on each in the back.

Mike, call one of the vendors and see if they'll trade you a set of std gills for your 'ricer-specials'. I've seen several sets both used and reconditioned at Larry Stock's PPC-Carson City.

Especially now that I'm going with the black and white theme, the chrome gills is just more wrong.

PO said he had a friend who was chrome happy, and he let the guy chrome a bunch of things, including the gills and beauty covers on each side of the air cleaner cover grill.

The chrome beauty covers I'm leaving, they actually look really cool, but the chrome gills are going away soon.

Now that the car is running good, and I've got a few miles on it without issue, I'm going to adjust the valves before driving it again.

Then I'll be adding the screens to the velocity stacks, and then she should be good to enjoy for a while without having to do anything (knocking on wood).

Now just finish it off with a wrap on the lower sills and GTS decals. These are custom graphics by the way, available new for $100:
http://poca.com/pipermail/deto...5-August/234843.html

https://www.facebook.com/photo...e=1&relevant_count=8

Thant's next, but I plan to have it say just "PANTERA" or DETOMASO", no GTS because my car isn't a GTS.

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Originally posted by garth66:
Now just finish it off with a wrap on the lower sills and GTS decals. These are custom graphics by the way, available new for $100:
http://poca.com/pipermail/deto...5-August/234843.html

https://www.facebook.com/photo...e=1&relevant_count=8

I am thinking something like this

I'm sure the shop that created the custom decal for Michael Shortt (the pic and link I posted above) can customize it any way you like.

^^^^^^^^What Garth said/pictured!!!!!!!!
IMHO that full sized "Pantera" across that lower panel is just perfect.
I have always liked the placement of a DT crest decal above the Ghia badge as here on John McNamee's colorshift orange front fender.

The Beginning Continues!.............

That is pretty much exactly how I want my car to look when finished. Bravo!

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Originally posted by garth66:
I'm sure the shop that created the custom decal for Michael Shortt (the pic and link I posted above) can customize it any way you like.

White / Black is such a great color combination on a Pantera. Nice Work.

Sent off a pic from this page to my wrap shop. Hoping they can match the font and graphics, and be able to install the black wrap on the sides of my car next week. The lettering would be cut and pulled off, exposing the white pain underneath, not a white decal over the black wrap, at least that's how I see it happening.

Applying a reverse cut decal is tedious and hard, you may find it easier (and cheaper) to apply a solid black wrap first and then a die cut white on top.

I'll find out tomorrow morning when I call the wrap outfit.

Might have to wait a week due to funds anyways.

For what it is worth (maybe less than 2 cents), I find the blacked out rear deck lid and "sail planes," when viewed from the side, gives the Pantera that Lotus Europa John Player Special look. The flow from the roof to the rear is interrupted so it has the visual appearance of being chopped off behind the rear window. I think the JPS Europa looks like a mini-Ranchero (although it IS a neat little car).