We will be listing this beautiful 1972 DeTomaso Pantera in the next week on eBay. This is a 12,000 mile original with a 351 engine.
The name Pantera is Panther in Italian. This beautiful car was designed by US-based designer Tom Tjaarda and replaced the De Tomaso Mangusta. Unlike the Mangusta, which employed a steel backbone chassis, the Pantera was a steel monocoque design, the first instance of De Tomaso using this construction technique. It made its public debut in Modena in March 1970 and was presented at the 1970 New York Motor Show a few weeks later. Approximately a year after that production Panteras started finding their way into the hands of customers and production had already been ramped up to a remarkable (by the standards of Modena built exotica) 3 per day.
Check back next week to see how it does at auction.
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