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kirkevanskirkevansAmeriSport GT5-S builder Pantera Parts Vendor
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A car from my past resurfaces. Did this one in 1984 just before AmeriSport started. Frankly I don't remember it being 80% finished before the delivery in Chicago to the first owner who had it built. There are a few additions to the build like the Gilmore belt drive which I told the original owner I would not do because of the safety factor. You have a fire, belt break at speed or even a water pump coming apart and clear acrylic is not a good solution if you are in the driver seat. IMHO Looks good from the inside though. You never see the engine front while driving a Pantera

Nice work on the restore and still in fantastic shape. It's great to see it again looking as it was designed and built originally in 84. Here's a nice shot on the road in Florida.

Great yellow sunset---WOW---what luck!

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kirkevanskirkevansAmeriSport GT5-S builder Pantera Parts Vendor
Thank you John. Looking forward to seeing the GT5 in person---are you bringing it to Vegas?

Here is another detail. The quarter window scoops were pre-GT5-S and had hard line louvers in them fabricated in sheet metal. I big pain to make because the scoop shape--they had to progressively twist and each louver was much closer together than the molded soft edge GT5-S scoop louvers that came later. And they do pull in air, I tested them at speed with yarn and only the very bottom inch was air neutral. Wayne's GT5-S has a direct feed to the air box from the side scoops. It was modeled after the first set I built for the Donavon powered black Pantera from 1982 with side draft Webbers on it. That one is in my old History DVD

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A close up the emblem machined flat and recessed into the bumper. That was a first and never became a second. I was planning on offering this bumper but AmeriSport started shortly after this car was delivered and Moi (that's French for me not a mis-spell as usual) barely had enough time to crap in those days.

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Here is a real history walk. This is a shot of the car on my in ground 2 post hoist in the back of the old Wauseon, Ohio shop. It looks like a Friday because we use to start a noon, wash the entire shop floor, move all of the trash to the back overhead door and hose down the walls. The big black rectangle on the wall was my flip down sheet metal work bench and storage area. The sheet metal was inside the bench when it folded up to the wall. I have many of those fold up benches now because my current shop is barely 2200 feet. Downsizing from the last one which was 44,000 was a bitch.

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