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No, not the girl AND NOT in pink. Mine was a medium blue color that everyone went out of their way to dent, molest, or crash into.

The day I bought it and the day I sold it were the best days I had with it. The DeTomaso Pantera had a 351 Cleveland engine with hydraulic lifters and a 5-speed ZF transmission. It would top out at 150 mph. It sold new for $10,400 in 1972.

Mine was this color.

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Panteras are cheaper in the long run.

I have a blonde now and have had for the last 41 years.
 
I thought that Pantera was the name of the upscale fast food chain with the fancy breads.

Was the young blond lady considered an accessory to the car? How high did her engine rev? Did she beep when you squeezed her?

I'm now going off to hide. :twisted:
Ron
 
RonC said:
I thought that Pantera was the name of the upscale fast food chain with the fancy breads.

Was the young blond lady considered an accessory to the car? How high did her engine rev? Did she beep when you squeezed her?

I'm now going off to hide. :twisted:
Ron
I bet Hugh Hefner knows Ron
 
patocazador said:
Panteras are cheaper in the long run.

I have a blonde now and have had for the last 41 years.
I learned that lesson early in life.
 
patocazador,
The Studebaker Avanti preceded the Pantera by a few years. What did you think of the Avanti?

As a young teenager, I would visit the one in town and just drool.

Ron
 
When I was super poor, I drooled over a bug-eye Sprite.

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A '57 or a '61 Corvette was unthinkable .. still is.
 
I could afford to buy a 427 Cobra back in 1966. They were only $6000. The problem was I couldn't find one for sale. I got on the list to buy one, but Never got close enough to get one.

Now that same 66 Cobra sells for 1 million. The rich guys got them back in 66, because they paid a higher premium for them and got moved up the list. Now at a million bucks they're still buying this.

Rich people suck!!
 
I might seem old fashioned to you fellows, but this was the car of my dreams:
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An MG TD 1953.
Underpowered. Yup. In the Rockies, you would have to go uphill in reverse as that was the lowest gear. But, to me, it looked like a mini-Rolls Royce.
Ron
 
Ahhhh with the top down Ron, the wind would be screaming over that head of yours :lol!:
 
Never did get my dream cars.
In 1964, this is a photo from the net of the model of car I drove: a 1955 Ford Fairlane convertible in "cream and strawberry". However, it didn't have the skirts over the wheels; the replacement top was black; there were two white stripes down the seams of the top to keep the rain out; the top didn't go down because the motor was shot and we couldn't afford to buy a new one; and the car shimmied and shook when driven between 35 - 50 mph, and no amount of alignment would fix it. It came off the assembly line with an out-of-alignment chassis.
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Ron
 
FrontierGander said:
Ahhhh with the top down Ron, the wind would be screaming over that head of yours :lol!:
And muss my hair something terrible! :D
Ron
 
RonC said:
I might seem old fashioned to you fellows, but this was the car of my dreams:
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An MG TD 1953.
Underpowered. Yup. In the Rockies, you would have to go uphill in reverse as that was the lowest gear. But, to me, it looked like a mini-Rolls Royce.
Ron
When I was a teenager, there were lots of MGTDs and MGTCs around but on a senior HS trip to the Bahamas I saw one of these. It's an MGTF 1500. While the other guys were trying to smuggle booze back on board the ship, I was ogling this car.
The owner came up and before I could ask him dozens of questions, he said, "Keep your bloody hands off my automobile."
I never did get to ask all the questions.

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I worked in a small garage in Santa Barbara Ca. called Performance Automotive as a mechanic. All we worked on were the British cars. I became interested in them and ended up buying one of the last Mini Cooper S cars to come to the US. It was a fun car to drive and I ended up road racing it in club events. I had my eye on a Lotus Cortina to race, but I never bought it. It would have been fun to race too.

The shop owner raced a Mini Cooper S too, and I remember I asked him for a raise once. His answer was.........Yes, you can have a raise as soon as you stop beating me on the track. I never got the raise.  :D
 
I had several cheap British cars but they all acted the same. They wouldn't start if it was wet or cold out due to the Lucas ignition system. It was pure junk along with SU carburetors. My Morris Minor was the best of the lot.
I worked for a rich Mafia guy. He had a Rolls Royce that wouldn't start on cold wet days either. He hardly ever drove it. He and his wife would fight over who got to drive the Lincoln Continental.
 

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