Man, a few pictures raise about a billion questions, don’t they? The title isn’t kidding, the saddest 1972 Pantera in America is for sale but it goes a lot further than that. What’s the weird tale that sees one of the hottest and baddest ass sports cars of the early 1970s turned into an abandoned, rotting heap, in what appears to be the backyard of an abandoned, rotting heap? The first Panteras in 1971 were the hottest. They were also the shortest in number with about 1,000 landing on US shores. This 1972 model would have been a little more tame on the power front but it still had the great looks that got kind of jacked up with the bigger numbers that were added to the cars in 1973 and forward.
Somewhere between 1972 and today, this car’s life took a turn for the gloomy. It is not uncommon to see these cars in kind of rough shape but this one seems to have suffered some form of the “I’m going to restore it someday” syndrome that normally afflicts muscle cars and other such vehicles. Italian exotics normally turn up all parted out, or halfway destroyed in the back corners of junkyards, not in overgrown backyards. We bet this thing is the curiosity of the neighborhood now that a few chunks of the fence have fallen down.
The asking price is $25,000 which is completely insane. While nothing in this world is “beyond repair” this thing is close. Just judging by the interior and paint condition, as well as the levels of rot in the exhaust, this whole car is going to need to be reconstructed from the bottom up or from the nose to the tail. Then again if the seller knows how it ended up here and why, the story may be worth the price of admission.
eBay link: The saddest 1972 Pantera in American could be yours!
Ultimate Ratrod Muscle car so it is advertised at just the right time
I rode in one one time–was an amazing mix of terror and delight–Imagine a giant ice pick stuck through the roof and into the pavement and then think of the handling as rotating on this axis with every right or left turn and the substitute wet pavement for a real road–That is how they roll and all that with a screaming smelly HOT Ford at your elbow –Yea I still want one! You can only imagine these sitting on the docks in Italy for months and months waiting permission to come to the USA then arriving with a head start on really rusty future
That makes this one the “poster child” for Pantera waiting to get here then this one that was waiting on death
Sad history for what was a very imaginative car that looked the part and at the time was an affordable super car type
Note the (0) for the Ebay seller –That is a tipoff if there ever was one
It’s worth 25K if this was Vince Neil’s crash car.
Do I detect the fragrant aroma of Eau de Goate ? 25 large for this steamer ? That boy’s been drinking too much of his own ‘shine….
Some mouthbreathing dork will by this and throw an LS into it.
Then he will suffer a flaming wipe out as he attempts to take the first corner and the car disintegrates around his sorry Chevy-loving ass,,,,
Geordie, Geordie, Geordie, take a chill pill. First you’ll will need a sucker to buy this pile for that amount. Second, even I would rather keep the Cleveland rather than butcher it up.
I live about 11/2 hours from Red Springs ,NC and this town is not what I would call exclusive. Hard to fathom a Pantera in that town.
You got your program backwards Jerry. It’s the older areas where you’re going to find cars sitting in backyards. Exclusive doesn’t mean squat.