Mecum Car...

Wow, that's good money. I read on the F car site that they sold a 575 manual trans for $385k. This car was $120k last year. looks like our Pantera's continue to climb.

Here it is:

https://www.mecum.com/lot-deta...aso-Pantera/5-Speed/

I thought it was a lot of money for a car with nice paint, but poor fitting front bumpers with no seals, and incorrectly painted rockers and rear lower black. The rear crossmember and sway bar area was very sloppy and wrong wheel color.

front bumper fit

Wow those are some serious build quality issues for a car with that kind of money. Makes me appreciate my car even more now

Nice price. Seems people are willing to pay some nice bucks for anything resembling somewhat original. I assume it will sit in a garage somewhere to retain the value of the low 40K miles or so, which is cool as well if so.

Here's the link to the Road and Track article:
http://www.roadandtrack.com/ca...n-de-tomaso-pantera/
I guess it was a flip job . I wonder what it would have gone for w/o the R&T article?

If he was really trying to capture the pre-L look he would have put a grill badge on it. Just sayin'