Popular opinion wanted

Or this?

I vote GTS look

I also vote GTS with blacked hood and deck lid.

Since you will be selling the car in the near future, you may want to offer the car as is or in primer "ready to paint". My car is presently at the paint shop to be painted silver; however,looking through the Pantera registry, it appears silver is not that popular vs. yellow, red, or a few other colors.

I vote #2 (GTS).

Just look at "My 74 at Paint" thread...

Please note... It's not "my" '74....

My '74 At Paint

i vote #2

I vote #2.

I am thinking similar for my paint.
lower sides and hood black, but only the flat of the trunk and then the roof to complete the lines

I'm Loving the GTS look.

I recommend the GTS color scheme. I am currently changing the color of my silver Pantera partly because I have had too many people ask if my silver car is a DeLorean. The GTS look is more removed from the DeLorean, which makes it better in my mind. Not to knock DeLoreans (too badly), but I find these comments mildly insulting.

Have any of you other silver DeTomaso owners had the same experience?

The only other knock I have with silver on a Pantera is that it has the connotation of "precision" and engineering accuracy, which seems out of character with a car of such emotional appeal. Probably a color better suited for an Audi.

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Originally posted by BigBlockFan:
I have had too many people ask if my silver car is a DeLorean.... Have any of you other silver DeTomaso owners had the same experience?

Yes. Sort of. People are constantly assuming that my white Pantera is a Lotus Esprit — probably thanks to the James Bond movie which featured one. I've never had the same comment on my blue Pantera, so the color is certainly a factor.

I would do the GTS scheme IF I was painting my car silver. However, if I was planning to sell the car soon after, I'd go with something more popular. the wine red of Mike Dailey's car is stunning, as is the dark blue I have. People also seem to universally love black Panteras. Many other obvious choices seem polarizing. Some love/hate both red and yellow but the car looks awesome in both. Same for orange and grabber blue. Greens are a much tougher sell, although I am likely going to re-paint my white car the same light mint green that Kristian's car is. A gorgeous period color that looks modern as well (to me anyway). I have no plans to seek and so I do not care about re-sale impact. I'll let my estate worry about that!

Good luck with your decision.

Mark

I see the GTS style is by far the more popular of the two. So GTS it will be.

As for the other colors, The last 2 panteras I painted were yellow, I like it but did not want to do a third. Red is a popular color and I considered doing a Red/Black GTS paint, but I see a lot of red cars for sale and wanted to do something different but appealing. I have done orange (Avatar) and Black panteras. I like the look of Black, but a pain in the neck to paint and even more difficult to keep clean.
Besides all that, I bought a gallon of Silver base yesterday. The only question (now answered) do I shoot the entire car silver or black out the hood and deck lid.

I do have one more question, now going with GTS style. How much of the tail panel is black? Do I bring the black around the back from where the line breaks at the bumpers down to the rear valance? or is that area silver?
Doors, at the end of the doors, where the door light is and below, is that silver or black?
Probably should not matter much as the car is not an original GTS.

Thank you all for your votes!!! It made deciding much easier.

All the Best
Jay

Augustaboy painted the whole decklid black, including the strip above the decklid seam...

The majority of the back is silver.

Rocky

here is a recent post discussing GTS paint scheme
http://pantera.infopop.cc/eve/...562/m/6371034546/p/1

yes I get "is that a Delorean" crap too . I think its the curse of owning a silver car. I thinking about painting it dark blue and putting the group 4 lookalike 17" rims

I would go for the silver/Black GTS scheme. If you worry about the car being mistaken for a Delorean how about putting the euro GTS "detomaso Pantera GTS" stickers on the sides. It would look right as it is a small bumper car.

I vote for all silver. Over here in Denmark and perhaps Europe, blackened hoods, panels etc. are boy-racer things. So you you're planning to sell to Europe, might not do the black stuff.

Hi 4008 I understand your dilemma. Good news is you don't need to make a permanent decision.... If you go all Silver initially and get Foil wrapped on the Panels you want black. It will be a total reversible and free decision should you change your mind later.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXln8s5KFOs

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Originally posted by Push1267:
If you worry about the car being mistaken for a Delorean how about putting the euro GTS "detomaso Pantera GTS" stickers on the sides.

Well, despite having that painted in huge capital letters on the rocker panels, people have way too often asked me for the brand and type of the car - go figure...

Like BigBlockFan, my silver Pantera is constantly getting mistaken for a Delorean. I too am changing my color to something a little more colorful. Hopefully, this will help from the having the vehicle mistaken for a Delorean. I personally don't think that the two cars look anything like one another. You would think that being in the Motorcity, people would have a better idea of what each vehicle looks like...guess not.... LOL...

the most insulting was "...aint that a Briklin?"

5177,

That's funny. I had the same Bricklin comment a few months ago. I think they run the same tail light so who wouldn't confuse them - LOL.

Devin

Yes, same tail light as the Bricklin.

1972 Alfa Romeo Berlina.
Maserati:
Bora , Meraks, Khamsin , & Indy

I had a guy walk up to me and ask what kind of car it was?

I was standing in the back of the car and pointed to the Detomaso Pantera script on the car.

The guy says "yes, I see that, but what kind of a car is it?"

I shrugged my shoulders and said "red".

Mine resided in Troy and Lavonia MI

"Kit car?"

"No, they did not all come from the factory with Ford 351C engines. I know, my neighbor's car came with a Chevy motor."

"That must be real expensive being a Ferrari"

My wife gets so sick of telling people what it is that she tells them "it's a psychedelic love machine sent back from the future to save the world".

One night my wife was following me in her 69 Mustang and a guy was pulled up beside her at a set of lights and asked her what my car was.

At least people are askin'....

Better than when you drive aroung in your Accord!

Myself, I'm disappointed when I drive by a bunch of teenagers at the bus stop, and they don't even look up.... That's really the bad thing for our sport...

Rocky

One of the great things about Pantera is that not everybody knows what it is. Many haven´t even heard about it.

I recently got a "OMG Ford sold a sports car?"

I get Lotus all the time.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXcDcmxcEN4

The few times I was able to take my GT5 to car shows, I would walk around the crowd and hear them talk about what a nice kit car it was.
It had the DeTomaso script on the side but they still did not get it.
Most of the time I did not correct them, if they enjoyed looking at the car, I was happy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgVOwyF6b2k

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Myself, I'm disappointed when I drive by a bunch of teenagers at the bus stop, and they don't even look up.... That's really the bad thing for our sport...

My best experience was when I parked outside a bycycle repair shop in our car-backwards country. 3 teenagers working there came out. I expected: "Is it a Ferrari?", but one of them said/yelled: "Oh vauw! It's a Pantera, the Porsche-killer!"

I was at a car show and a young guy (17 ish) comes up to me and asks, "would it be alright if I show your car to my girlfriend?"

It's kind of unusual of a request simply because everyone is walking up to the car and looking at it anyway, but I said, "sure, of course".

In a few minutes he comes back with her, and they are obviously arguing about something, so he gives her the tour.

So he asks her, "so what do you think now?" She snaps back at him, "so it's a Corvette...big deal".

I hope he didn't marry her?

Another vote for the GTS colour scheme - did a quick search on car resale based on colour, and silver is currently topping the list in virtually every category from coupes to luxury sedans (it was 2nd place for SUVs) ... Kelly Blue Book on Car Color and Resale ... of course the info doesn't necessarily apply to 40 year old supercars.

As for what I hear about the car - first show I took it to the guy at the 'gate' asked if it was a kit, haven't heard that since, and it's been 5+ years.

Do teens think the car is cool?...
A few months back a teenager with his girlfriend pulled up next to me at the lights and suggested a car swap (I forget what he was driving, a prelude or maybe a sunfire) ... I smiled and said no, then he offered to throw in the girlfriend - she was half hanging out the window for a better look at the car, but got back in and gave him a punch in the arm

I have the good fortune of having friends with both a Delorean and a Bricklin so when we go to shows, people can see the differences first hand - although I have come back from walking around the show to hear them telling people my car is a kit built on a Fiero, but I've been known to suggest Massey Ferguson might have had something to do with one of the other cars, and copious amounts of whisky went into the design and construction of t'other!

BTW, the story I've heard about the Bricklin tail lights is that the designer, Herb Grasse, was trying to work out what the tail lights should look like, and went outside, took the tail lights off his Pantera, and stuck them into the clay model of the Bricklin.

My bright red GP4 with a wing is mostly mistaken for a Lamborghini and I have to constantly point towards the large Pantera script at the bottom of the doors. After that I am usually asked "what is it" ? Silver is nice but I rather be mistaken for a Lamborghini than a Delorean.