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I am a ford guy.. I still have the 70 mach1 I drove in high school back in 72. I also have a 68 Mustang fastback 390gt. I came by because I recently got a bunch of 1972 Pantera parts at an estate sale and I wanted to read and look at pics to help ID them. The guy was a doctor that owned the car back in the early 80s. It had about 45k at the time.. He saved, labeled, and stored everything he replaced or bought for the car.
I ended up with a fresh set of 70 closed chamber 4bbl heads set up for adjustable rockers. A 72 ford spread bore intake with an aluminum spacer and two barrel adapter. A new Cam Dynamics Cam. An original chrome top air cleaner. A Motorcraft dual point distributor. A pair of Marchal ampilux head lights. Half shafts, struts, calipers. And a couple boxes of small parts. Well after looking at pics of your Panteras I think I have the bug. My question is are there many Pantera guys restoring there cars to original condition.

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markcharltonmarkcharltonOld enough to know better and still young enough not to care. My '71 Pantera
Welcome!

You'll find that most Pantera guys are "creative types" who love the Pantera for it's canvas-like quality for enabling self-expression. That said, there are a few people who really value the stock cars although they are probably more collection vs. driving-focused. I'm sure that you'll be able to find new homes for whatever parts you have to offer, and this is certainly the best place for that. More than you'll find with old Mustang parts, there tends to be an abundance of the more commonly replaced Pantera parts because most of us have upgraded anything that might either leave us stranded somewhere or is just plain ugly.

Of course, now that your Mustang is finished and you must be close or into retirement, why not add a Pantera to the garage and use them yourself? Wink BTW, sweet looking Fastback!

Mark
George PGeorge PAdmin.
Welcome aboard

That's a gorgeous '68 Fastback, I love that blue paint. What's the color? The '67/'68 Fastbacks are my all time favorite 'Stangs.

There's always a few guys putting their cars back to stock, but even the guys whose goal is to make it stock find it hard to resist a change or two, like 17 inch Campy clone wheels or a different exterior color. I do wish we had a few hard core guys who would restore their cars to 100% concours oem quality and then take them to the major shows. The Pantera hobby still isn't taken seriously by the concours crowd.
davidbdavidbMember
Show me a 70s sports car that had an Italian chassis designed specifically for a big American V8.

Which brings me to why most guys don’t restore Panteras to original, concourse condition.

Guys who buy Alfas, Ferraris, Lambos, Fiats, etc. are buying classic Italian cars that once restored to original will ride and look like they did in whatever generation they were created.

But guys who buy Panteras buy them because of all the muscle under that hard cornered Italian skin - not for those nice little 4 cylinder engines and crazy electrics found in most Italian classics.

Once you have your Pantera in your garage and realize you can buy parts down the street and fix it yourself… well, that’s very different. Once you get the motor working well, then you update the suspension and then get bigger wheels to transfer all that torque and HP to fatter tires. Now you’ve got a real GT car – what the Italians would have built if they weren’t taxed for displacement.

And so it goes. In the end you have something that none of the classics have. A monster performer, a crazy beautiful car that looks as modern today as it did in the 70s. A rocket that buries todays’ supercars with ease. A car that you can drive all day long and not break down or need a trip to some expensive, fully booked, foreign car tuner.

And you can do it all on a working man’s salary. Which is why Pantera owners are such real people and fun to hang around with.

I like wine and cheese. But I can have it anytime I want.
khansmithkhansmithMember
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Originally posted by David B:
Show me a 70s sports car that had an Italian chassis designed specifically for a big American V8.

Which brings me to why most guys don’t restore Panteras to original, concourse condition.

Guys who buy Alfas, Ferraris, Lambos, Fiats, etc. are buying classic Italian cars that once restored to original will ride and look like they did in whatever generation they were created.

But guys who buy Panteras buy them because of all the muscle under that hard cornered Italian skin - not for those nice little 4 cylinder engines and crazy electrics found in most Italian classics.

Once you have your Pantera in your garage and realize you can buy parts down the street and fix it yourself… well, that’s very different. Once you get the motor working well, then you update the suspension and then get bigger wheels to transfer all that torque and HP to fatter tires. Now you’ve got a real GT car – what the Italians would have built if they weren’t taxed for displacement.

And so it goes. In the end you have something that none of the classics have. A monster performer, a crazy beautiful car that looks as modern today as it did in the 70s. A rocket that buries todays’ supercars with ease. A car that you can drive all day long and not break down or need a trip to some expensive, fully booked, foreign car tuner.

And you can do it all on a working man’s salary. Which is why Pantera owners are such real people and fun to hang around with.

I like wine and cheese. But I can have it anytime I want.


I am the odd ball here. I liked the car in it's original state and that's how I am working on mine. To be fair, I am in the minority.

I also plan on wearing bell bottoms, growing out a fumanchu mustash and will require my wife to wear a polyester red jumpsuit while going 140 listening to the Eagles.
74lqqkr74lqqkrMember
Nice Mustang. I had one exactly like it with Hooker headers taht were a bit&* to get on but they helped when changing the plugs. My first wife hated the car and we traded it in on a POS 74 Camero LT that turned out to have a cracked head. Sure wish I had that Stang back but I always wanted a Pantera and finally got one. The Pantera is much easier to work on thatn the 390 in the stang. I had to have a crane to lift off the intake but I sure love the FE engines.
R rnegless (Guest)
Sorry if I led anyone to believe I was trying to sell parts on this thread. I could use some general info on the half shafts, struts and calipers in the picture since they don't seen to have any identifying marks. Its hard to list an item in the parts for sale section if you can't give a descent description.
does200does200Member
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Originally posted by rnegless:
Here's a pix of some of the bigger parts that I inherited. The pistons are free in the calipers. The struts and half shafts don't have any identifying marks so I don't know if they are original or after market. Do used parts like these have any value?

You should be able to get some good money for that stuff, especially those plates should fetch some cashola.
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