Hey Mike, Corvettes are cool but they ain’t Stingrays.The new ones have 500hp. but there’s something about a 'Ray. What’s with the Lotus Green? BAD MOJO. Remember N. Lauda? (sp)? I’ve got to admit, the 351 C motors in the Panteras really moved out. I had a ride with a guy I worked for in his original 427 Cobra. It was SCARY fast and SCARY loose!
my father in law has one of these in the garage with the original factory orange.
he also has a picture of him standing in front of it parked in the round about in front of snow white’s castle at disneyland…PLAYA!
I have not been able to successfully convince my brother in law to resurrect the car…it needs work. if anyone knows anyone…please advise.
Rooster, The '58 Apache, good call, with the double headlights? I’d kill for a cherry panel wagon. A buddy has an old forest service '58 with a nine foot bed
(factory) and a tool/chains storage in the rear bumber. It’s all original and still pretty clean.
Afoaf,
Gary Hall @ Hall Pantera, or POCA.......Pantera Owners Club of America. Lots of people in POCA do work on cars. Both good sources of info.
Afoaf,
Gary Hall @ Hall Pantera, or POCA.......Pantera Owners Club of America. Lots of people in POCA do work on cars. Both good sources of info.
BMW 2002 one of the most fun cars I have taken around a road course including my 400 hp 3rd gen Rx7
my ugly mug and the start of my dreads a few years ago.... many bad hair days since
antony
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Great storyTblank!
How about one of these.....
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1972 Detomaso Pantera.............I had a Black 1974 Pantera with red pinstripes all over it. Kept it for nine years, before selling it to buy real estate. Good economic move, bad emotional move. I do miss that car.
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my father in law has one of these in the garage with the original factory orange.
he also has a picture of him standing in front of it parked in the round about in front of snow white's castle at disneyland....PLAYA!
I have not been able to successfully convince my brother in law to resurrect the car...it needs work. if anyone knows anyone...please advise.
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Afoaf....I know the right people....We need to talk offline....
I miss being a part of the car biz......My body does not miss the abuse...My family is really happy I now have a job with paid holidays and health insurance..........................................
Took these photos of this mystery car behind Gen Kai Sushi in DanaPoint. Never seen one before.
I showed the sushi chef the photos on my phone, and he said the car used to belong to Nicholas Cage, who ate there occasionally.
Super sexy 60’s- early 70’s ? body styling.
No clue to what’s under the hood.
Any Ideas?
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Looks like a FACEL VEGA. That's my best guess. Emphasis on guess.
Thanks for the tip Bill! I googled Facel Vega and found very similar cars but no cigar. My wife mentioned that the car had a Ghia badge on the hood… I did another search for Facel Ghia and found that it’s a 1962 Dual-Ghia L6.4 Coupe. There where only 26 of them built. I looks like this one was originally owned by Dean Martin. It sold at auction for $181,500. Wow!!
http://www.conceptcarz.com/vehicle/chassisNum.aspx?carid=10045&idNumID=3319
Here’s a car that worth about 3 to 5 times that much:
The guy who lives across the street from me had to babysit his bosses car for 3 months while the boss was on a trip. Lucky dude!!
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Surfding, that was my first car ever! Same color, too. Mine was a 1969 model. Great little car. I learnt all mechanics basics with it when I decided I had had enough with garage invoices. Someone who doesn’t know those cars could not steal one because he will never know how to get it started: there’s a key to turn the ignition on, but it doesn’t actually start the engine. You need to pull a lever that is situated between the driver’s and the passenger’s seats, behind the gear lever… I am 6’ tall and, when stopping at a red signal, I had to open the roof so that I could actually see when it turned to green…
I always liked the look of Robby’s Porsche with the roofracks and board!
http://www.stableroad.com/videos/angleofattackintro.htm
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Speaking of Cars:
Check out my sisters Fiat 500 that she drives in Italy =
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Who cares about the car. Check out whats in the car. Ahwoooooo.
Mike
Hey tblank,
I saw one in the Costco parking lot last week. Black, restored, but not so buffed you would be afraid to put a couple of surfboards or sheets of plywood in the back. I can’t remember if it had double headlights. I think it was the same truck I saw a couple of years ago at a show. The truck belonged to the guys grandfather or something and they used it to haul the family around picking fruit around the southwest back then. The grandkid got ahold of it and restored it.
like the old GTO’s too. Mike
SWEET! Thanks Mike! I tried to copy and paste a 67 GTO for tblank. I’ll try again. Mike
Right on Rooster, the Goats were always cool. Anyone remember the old Dodge Interceptors that the Cal. Hwy patrol drove? They used to auction off the older ones in the fleet. Total sleepers and of course they hauled a$$. Still, a real nice Nomad is always a good call.
That’s pretty cool! My sister live in France when I lived in (Versailles) and move to Italy in 1994 and has been there ever since. She fell in love with that little Fiat 500 and in fact it’s her favorite car. My sister is unusual because she can work on cars herself and does her own maintenance? I wanted to buy it from her and use it for runs down to the surf here in Huntington Beach. I couldn’t get her to let it go. I guess in Italy its the perfect car to cruise around the villages?
It’s especially fine for parking: since the engine is in the back, the front is quite light. So, rather than doing several manoeuvers to fit it in a very small room between two other cars, you just engage the rear, get out of the car, lift the front and pull it in. Done that a number of times…
