Pantera #4629

Doors, hood, deck lid, and headlight buckets all painted.
Should get the body squirted next weekend.

Looks great!

Yellow is the best color!

Rocky
#5357

Thanks Rocky

I am really looking forward to seeing this one back together and finished.

Jay

Painted and working on re-assembly

Nose

Looks amazing!


Ron

Thanks Ron.
Progress is slowly coming along. Getting somewhat bogged down in some of the minor details, right exhaust hangers, sorting out the electrical. I rebuilt the original carb, but something is not set right. However generally very happy with overall look.

side

Engine bay

I guess this falls under the catagory of "I'd rather be lucky than good" Trying to track down a electrical problem with the turn signals not working. Pushed in the hazard button, nothing. happened to bump into the wiring harness under the dash near the speedo while the hazard button was depressed and everything started working again. Just a loose connection. I'll take good luck any day of the week.

Little further along

Nice level of detail, but not over restored

Still have the seats out as I am still working out a few adjustments on the carb.

Engine, I have the snorkel for the air cleaner but not sure if I want to put it on. Want original look but I think it came like this.

last one for tonight

Feeling a bit of an idiot at the moment. Could not get a good brake peddle. Bought new master cyl, rebuilt the calipers with new seals and pistons and went for the steel braided brake hoses. Changed from dot 3 to 5, flushed and bled the system still could not get good brakes. After hours of trying to figure it out, I called for help only to find I had the front calipers on the wrong side which meant the bleeder screw was at the low point on the caliper and therefor could not get the air out of the system. Stupid mistake cost plenty of $$$ and hours of head ace . Now to figure out why my clutch peddle goes to the floor. Also just flushed and changed to Dot 5.

DOT 4 is the recommended brake fluid.

#4629 catching a sunset on the bay in her new home here in Australia.

Great looking car. If the turn signals don't work, bump the wire bundle by the speedo.

PS> You need to change your screen name now!

Rocky

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Originally posted by Rocky:
Great looking car. If the turn signals don't work, bump the wire bundle by the speedo.

PS> You need to change your screen name now!

Rocky

Thanks, but I can't take the credit for how it looks.

Actually the right hand turn signal was playing up on the front so I gave the bulb a tweak and it was fixed! But then the other side stopped working.....oh well at least the right works!

I can't think of a new name so it will just have to stay.

#4629 catching some rays out on the bay.

Actually at this point, you have probably done as much to improve the car as I did. I would say you deserve at least as much credit.
BTW: Those wheels are awesome!!! Great Job and well done.

Quick-fix suggestion, Wannabe:
use a wire brush inside the bulb sockets. If the socket is badly corroded after wire brushing, carefully wrap the bulb with a couple of turns of aluminum foil to increase its OD, until you can get around to replacing the questionable socket. Corrosion causes a number of bad connections in our DeTomasos and using Lucas components causes the rest!

Nice Car

quote:

Originally posted by Steeler:
Nice Car

Hey thanks Steeler! You should have said hello?

Thanks for the advice Boss but as it turns out it was just one of the dual filaments was blown and making it do strange things, probably a bad earth too which the new bulb solved.

Thanks Kitty, I love the wheels too. I have to hit you up for that carb soon, need a new seatbelt buckle too. I jumped in the car the other day and found it exploded all over the place. I will send you an email.

Just an update pic, #4629 on a run with a local car club.