De Tomaso Pantera 874
Car-ID: OT0123
Vehicle Description
Italian super sports car with V8 and indescribable design!
This 1974 De Tomaso Pantera comes from the US and has an unwarranted mileage of 24,500 mls.
The Pantera is held in a beautiful black, inside and out. The paint is obviously in good condition. The 17 inch alloy wheels in Campagnolo style look great on this car and give it an even sportier touch. The leather in the interior displays only minimal traces of use. A sports car feeling of the purest kind is generated by the slotted gate shifting mechanism that operates the 5-speed manual transmission. The dashboard as well as the entire interior are in a very good condition. The original owner’s manual is available. A recent Classic Data appraisal over € 95,000 (condition 2) is available. The vehicle comes with German registration documents, valid technical approval until 04/2017 and historic plates.
Falling in love with this car cannot entirely be ruled out…
An absolute super sports car with appreciation potential, which Jay Leno recently described as the most misunderstood and undervalued sports car of the 70s.
The Italian sports car manufacturer De Tomaso was founded in 1959 by the Argentine-born Alejandro de Tomaso in Modena. After the 1963 featured and only about a year built Vallelunga followed the much more successful and in 1966 presented Mangusta.
The Pantera (“Panther”) was intended as a successor to the Mangusta and was presented in March 1970 at the New York Motor Show.
The car was designed primarily for the North American market. Its inspiring blend of Italian design (brutal wedge shape of Ghia) and American V8-mass technique (351cui-Cleveland engine from Ford, 5.7 litre, 300 hp) lined it into the league of super sports cars of the 70s of the caliber of Lamborghini Countach, a Maserati Merak or a Iso Rivolta.
Not to mention the fact that the plugged ZF 5-speed gearbox is the same as in the BMW M1 or the Ford GT40, thus representing absolute top technology of the time.
