My Pantera . . . Great Headers, Cold Air
I bought my Pantera, as a shell and all parts were in boxes . . . all original parts, but in boxes!! So it was restored piece-by-piece. I went to California, Monterey weekend, and listened to 10 sets of headers, to pick the perfect sound. As you suggest, we added the super cold air-conditioning, so this was never an issue. It shares the transmission with the GT-40, so the gear change was also rock solid. The only issue was the beautiful, chromed Holley carb, which was never quite right. After we replaced the carb, the car become very reliable. Then I moved into an old house, circa 1932, with no garage . . . only an open carport . . . so the Pantera, with its perfect, 100-point paint, went to a new home.
Lots of great memories, especially open track days at Road Atlanta . . . back when the track still had the famous "dip". The Pantera enjoyed the track more than the urban traffic!!
Jeff
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: Ohh yessss the 351 C is a great engine, I remember 10 years
: ago going from Frankfurt to the Nordschleife in a Pantera Group
: car, it was a sunny day and we were hunting antelopes (911s) on
: the rather empty 'Autobahn', the click during gearchange is
: amazing, in your back the roaring 450+ Hp, the nose down on the
: road eating the pavement...amazing experience...ah and you get a
: free sauna...
: I also like the 455 in the Buicks stage cars, the 442 1970 and the
: trans ams of the earlier 70is with the mighty super duty 455,
: has anybody driven one of these ?
: For the Monza story I am just consolidating the research I have
: done during the last 6 month.
: Jeff would your expert have some detailed infos on Monzas ?
: Jassi do you recall the year of the catalog where we found the
: Modena ?
: Mark you have shown a catalog with the Cal 12 Monza in the older
: thread, I think it is the only Cal 12 Monza ever shown ?! Can
: you confirm the year ?
: The Monza was added to the portfolio 1976 MY,
: Heuers first limited edition watch,
: the only 70is watch in the portfolio with a chrom case,
: first cal 15 only, then extended to cal 12 with Monza on the dial,
: It was the last Cal.15 watch in production, there are many more
: interesting facts to come...
: Cheers
: Arno
: www.heuerchronographs.com
