Nice!

yes a nice unmolested car. Good luck to the new buyer.

Ron

Hello:
Has anyone seen this car or did a Carfax on the VIN? Just wondering in case it comes up again. Almost seems to good to be true. That should be a 35K car!!!

It may look like swiss cheese under that shiny paint! But usually the rest of the car is not preserved that well. I would never recommend buying a car sight unseen.

But based on the pictures this may have been a good gamble.

Shame on the bidders that didn't have the balls to hit buy it now

True.....but the car appears to have good documents and the car looks good. Would like to have seen an engine bay pic. Even for $29K...not a bad starting point for a Pantera. It seems these things are doing $35K+ all day long. And with 7K+ built there are alot out there if you look in the right places. Surprised nobody has ever seen this car.

CarFax doesn't work on older VIN numbers.

I was the high bidder on this car (reserve not met) before it went with buy-it-now.

I was waiting for pictures before committing to it; the seller sent me some engine bay and undercarriage pictures which showed some rust. An experienced body man looked at the pictures and said it looks like surface rust, but someone would have to go and look at the car in the metal. Then it went.

The day after it went, I was informed by the seller that the buyer reneged (Gee, I wonder if I have to buy it if I click here?). You can try the contact info on the eBay item if you are interested.

(I found a car in Canada; MUCH cheaper than paying currency conversion, import duty, excise, and all taxes. Still working on it; I'll post when it's mine.)

Marcus

Buying on pictures is a gamble. Most of us know that gambling is generally not profitable but is very exciting. This car being Red, Stock, and Unmolested looked very exciting. It may have been rust free. However the car being from Ohio, it seems that the odds are it could have some rust issues making this car not such a good deal.

I would not recommend anybody buy a used car sight unseen. That my friends was learned the hard way.

I bought my Pantera sight unseen. If I would have gone to look at it I probably would not have bought this car. The price was right and I don't feel like I got taken. I got what I paid for.

Yeah I saw some of those engine pics too....I know why they were not put on ebay. Looks like pretty bad rust if you zoom in and look at the pics. The engine really needed a good respray....and looked like alot of oil leaks under as well. Would probably take at least $10K to get the car presentable so it would be a $39K car then so I don't know. Think there are other deals out there. I'll probably still go look at it. I'm just not sure.....

These cars CANNOT be bought sight unseen. 3 years ago there was a beautiful silver 71 pushbutton on ebay, I emailed the seller and asked to see the car before bidding, it was in NY. A fridge magnet wouldn't stick anywhere on the car not even on the roof, not to mention that the roof had an angle of about 1 1/2 inches from one side to the other. From the pics it looked like a 40K car easy, in person it might have needed 40K in repairs. Take the time to check them your pocket will thank you. BTW car sold for 27K sight unseen. Rob6145

I purchased my Pantera without first seeing the car and I've been repairing rust and rot for months! But I can fix it cheaply, just tons of fabricating. Rust is hard to repair and likely on most cars in wet climates! I would have passed on my present car if I looked at it first.

There is no such thing as a Pantera (or any Detomaso) without some sort of rust, somewhere.
If you hold out for one, you will never buy one, because it doesn't exist.

Guys here are more pics...what do you think?

More....

More...see some bad rust in this one.....

Oil Leak....

IS this the EBay original car mentioned at the beggining of this string?

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Originally posted by cquirk:
IS this the EBay original car mentioned at the beggining of this string?

Yes, Turns out this car is not the exception. It is a typical used North Eastern car.

Yes...same car