[DeTomaso] [NPC] Big dollars at BJ auction

[Mad Dog Antenucci]

Thesis my ass! ;-]> Okay I agree with whatever you and Doc meant.
  MD

Donny Williams <donnylee at ccwebster.net> wrote:
  Chuck you pretty much hit the nail on the head and finished the chapter of 
my thesis! Hahahaha!

Donny
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Charles Engles" 
To: "Donny Williams" 
Cc: 
Sent: Monday, January 22, 2007 5:40 PM
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] [NPC] Big dollars at BJ auction


> Dear Donny,
>
> You wrote:
>
>> "For that reason, I theorize most car guys simply just did not grow up 
>> around them (I am an exception, as many of us owners today are, and that 
>> is why I have one now). A Pantera is not like having had two of your 
>> neighbors who had 427 Vettes when you were riding your bike around the 
>> street. Or Billy who had that LS-1 Chevelle, Cuda, Challenger, Camaro, 
>> in High School that went claimed undeafeted street fighting it. A 
>> Pantera was never regular running down a Cuda or a Ram Air 4 GTO down 
>> Woodward avenue. Pantera's were never parked at the Malt shops with Shoe 
>> Box Chevy's..... So it is my theory the Pantera was clearly absent the 
>> exposure of what people grew up around for the most part, and has pretty 
>> much kept the car in the dark through the ages. People in the market 
>> for exotic likely wanted the status of a Ferrari, or Porche, rather then 
>> a newer unknown mark for less money at the time. That still may hold 
>> true today."
>
>
> $$$$$$$$ You have an interesting observation. It may be a significant 
> factor that is often overlooked in the standard explanation for the lower 
> valuation of the Pantera vis a vis Ferraris, Shelbys, Porsche, etc. The 
> standard review is that the Pantera isn't in that ball park because: 1) 
> no racing heritage nor wins 2) no pedigree 3) [I can't remember the 
> other ones!] Anyhow, if there was never a social context in America 
> where a critical mass of young males perceived them to be desireable over 
> other cars, then as time goes on......Hemi Cudas and Corvettes and GT350 
> go up, while the unknown and unappreciated Pantera languishes. The 
> other observation, that at the time, they were relatively expensive and 
> were much less common than the other 70s muscle cars supports their 
> absence from the "scene" or the "street" where GTOs, Corvettes, Cudas and 
> Camaros made their reputations.
> Whatever the socio-cultural-psycho-economic 
> {BS}phenomenon one considers, the Pantera is *still* my favorite car and I 
> intend to keep mine for a good long while.
>
> Gitcher motor runnin', Chuck Engles
>
>
>
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