[DeTomaso] [NPC] Big dollars at BJ auction

[F&D Terry]

Well, in '74 you could have purchased any '67 or earlier Corvette for 
less than $3000 and today the right purchase would be worth over $100k. 
Even a small block automatic will bring over $35k. I sold a '66 Corvette 
in '86 for $13,500 to buy a '72 Pantera. Ten years later I sold the 
Pantera for what it cost me while my '66 Corvette had been resold a year 
earlier for  $35k.

I feel that the unfavorable articles written about the Pantera when they 
were introduced contributed a lot to today's lack of interest. Even 
today every time somebody on this list posts something about a Pantera 
on E-Bay it's negative. It's unfortunate but  I don't see anything that 
will make the Pantera more desirable. The only way it may happen is if 
all the other cars get so picked over that the bottom feeders might 
invest some money in a few Panteras. The problem with that is that so 
many Panteras have been modified that any savvy buyer may be skeptical 
about what is a proper purchase and shy away. I've done very well over 
the years purchasing restorable cars and learned three lessons very 
early. Know the market, buy the rarest I could find and make sure it had 
all the original equipment.

Fred T.

JJD1010 at aol.com wrote:

>The really funny thing is that in 74, there really wasn't anything even close 
>to it. For $11,400 you had a dependable car that beat the regular and more 
>expensive Ferraris of the time and, except for top end, kept up with the much 
>more expensive Daytona and BB. Same is true of the 2x more expensive Bora. The 
>Porsche 911 Carrera had about 170 hp amd 6.5 secs to 60. The XKE was much 
>slower and don't even mention the Corvette. What else were you going to buy?
>
>Jeff
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