De Tomaso Pantera spotted at Home Depot today

[Dave Hess]

De Tomaso Pantera spotted at Home Depot today.
Beautiful car fully restored with updated big brakes and wheels.
It looks like a 1973-74 model.

 

[meadows]

Probably needed to pick up some 2X4s

 

[GMBoy]

Beautiful and very original example. He is taking a huge risk parking that thing in the Home Depot lot!!!

 

[Torrid]

That's beautiful. You don't see those very often.

 

[fantastic]

Italian but used Ford engines. Neet car for its day.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Tomaso_Pantera

 

[MCompact]

It looks like a 1973; by that ime Ford had sorted most of the problems.

 

[Passport1]

My mailman had one. I saw it at the post office often. Once I asked him who owned it and he told me it was his. So naturally I had a million questions. He said he'd bring it around some day. Well he did and took me for a ride. It was crampted inside and rode rough but went like a banshee on speed. Had the 351 Cleveland engine.

Great guy.

 

[Torrid]

Italian but used Ford engines. Neet car for its day.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Tomaso_Pantera

Kind of the best of both worlds really. Italian styling with the less complexity of a Ford powerplant. It has always fascinated me for this reason. It's like the more affordable early variation on a Ford GT since an early GT40 is unobtainium.

 

[fantastic]

Kind of the best of both worlds really. Italian styling with the less complexity of a Ford powerplant. It has always fascinated me for this reason. It's like the more affordable early variation on a Ford GT since an early GT40 is unobtainium.

Totally agree & this car may not have been on the road today if it had been some flavor of Italian engine.

 

[wavinwayne]

Amazing how tiny it looks compared to most everything else on the road these days. Sweet looking car!!

 

[JeffKeryk]

There's a club or something around here. Sometimes you see them on 280 North of Palo Alto. Maybe about 8 or 10 cars. Looooow...
And you will always see one or two at local community shows. Beautiful cars.

 

[MCompact]

The Pantera and Iso Grifo were my favorite italian hybrids.

 

[MCompact]

I had a chance to buy an Iso Lele and stupidly chickened out...

 

[Dinoburner]

The years with the Cleveland got my attention

 

[ripcord]

Love it!

 

[WylieCoyote]

I'd stand there and slowly die while watching the guy load potting soil into it.

 

[nickaluch]

In high school my friend Roger B had one his dad owned a bunch of night clubs in NYC and long Island. Fun to say the least

 

[doitmyself]

Beautiful. Thank you for sharing. I mean it, sincerely. I love classic rare cars.

But, I too share the angst of the Patriot owner in the OP for having such a vehicle parked next to my pride and joy:

 

[TheLastWord]

Road & Track and Car & Driver mags ran full page ads for $9995 every month during early 70's.

Vintage 1973 de Tomaso Pantera original color Ad | eBay

The actual ad you are buying is the one pictured above.

www.ebay.com

 

[heavy260]

I’ve seen a few in the wild in my neck of the woods. My favorite was the one that came screaming down the road WFO past my aunt’s farm.