That is the best Pantera you will ever see. Italian cars of the 70's were total rust buckets. A superb find of a unique very rare "super car".

The Pantera is my all-time favorite car. This design is 50 years old. I remember when they first arrived at the local Lincoln-Mercury dealers (the US distributor). This was intended to be the Mangusta replacement.

What would be really kind of neat is doing some follow up with your early dip customers. Seeing some of the vehicles hopefully, by now, are complete and do a walk-through of those. Kind of an easy re-cut where you could take your dipping stuff and tag it on to current activity. Keep the videos coming. Fun stuff!

The pressure washing is so satisfying to watch! I want to have my car dipped sometime so it can be brought back to it's original form once again.

Love the work this guy does! Starts the long process of restoring cars that really deserve saving/ restoring!

The e-coat result looks fantastic. Taking care of all those nooks and crannies which are typically missed with other coating methods seems like a huge bonus.

Probably one of the better bodies you have dipped. No crash or repair work, and only really rust damaged area is at the bottom of the front storage area. I would love to see this once it is painted and restored.

Wow. What a survivor. Another excellent blank canvas. I prefer the restoration over the modernized custom creation. Bravo.

Sunbeam Tigers are another great car to save. A lot of power in a small footprint !

What a sweet car, love these and THIS ONE is great. Very little gives me the kind of happiness these do to see something so wonderful being saved. Great stuff THANKS!

You probably won’t see this comment because you get so many views but I LOVE this channel. I think what you do for cars is awesome. I’m a big car guy and just love what you do. Thank you very much

Great to see this car getting revitalized. This is from my era (I'm 74). Cheers to you.

This video made my day. I've had a couple of these cars over the years and was told they had a ton of lead filler from the factory. Now I know where all of it is. The car here has way more rust than anything I've ever owned though one of mine had at least three repaints and so could use that alkaline strip. This car looks like it was stored outside for a while allowing water in. I hope the owner is good at welding.

would’ve been cool to see the pressure washing after the second paint strip dip. that would be the most satisfying to watch 😊

Nice Job all that primer and paint came off so Clean. As a Crane Operator for some 33 years now Retired. Grab a copy of Bob's Rigging Hand book, Take a good look at you Rope and it's Weight Rating , if anything you are using for Hoisting, is not Rated Don't use it. I'm not trying to be a hard ass but I have seen so many Failures, I would hate to see one of your ropes let go and Damage, a cool project like that. Build yourself a Spreader Bar, purpose built for your fork lift to handle Low and easy. so all four corners are pulling straight up no Torque or Twist. All poly rope are Effected by Heat,Chemicals, usage and age. Softeners on all four corners, check you local fire station, they throw away fire hose, and it makes great Softeners, to bend around sharp metals. Rigging has purpose built eyes for Shackles, all rated, any knots can reduce the Ropes Rating by Half , Rated Chain might be good going in the Dip Tank. Just a coupe of Ideas to keep old Murphy's law away from a Classic Pantera. Oh hell yes, I know you all, have Pulled your brothers, one ton 4x4 pulling a horse trailer, up hill in the snow with nothing but Wall Mart twine and the elastic from big Mikes Boxers Shorts But One Oh Shit Erases, all the Atta a boys, in a Flash.

You have my DREAM job.... making old things new again, HUGE tubs of deadly chemicals, killer power washers, CARS!! I'm sure cleaning up the mess and dealing with regulations isn't so fun.... but I'd be happy getting up in the morning to do what you do

Nothing less than art restoration. So glad there are people that don't let these pieces rust and die.

I dare to say, the whole planet would like to watch this car's restoration...

Did you know that Alejandro DeTomaso, the creator of the company, was from Argentina (like Horacio Pagani) and was a high school classmate of the infamous Che Guevara, they led very different lives... Greetings from Argentina!

Amazing work, I have never seen anybody do that process before, really pretty cool, especially when saving such a cool car design. Winning!!!

Original Pantera yellow was awesome. Neighbour of mine bought one new and I recall it vividly. Super cool new car that only started half the time.

My Detomaso Pantera GTS was completely stripped to a bar shell. It was media blasted top to bottom inside and out. I was shocked to see all the cancer. Lucky for me the body shop was able to fabricate panels that were no longer available. You better have deep pockets and committed but it feels good to have a rust free car. Johnny Woods is still making repair panels for these cars.

From what I've read and heard about these, if the tub didn't do its impression of a soft taco for the initial lift for the first dip. It was a pretty solid body and frame. Any buckling though, and it would be more useful for repair panels because you'd be chasing ripples on ripples without a build jig to fit it to.

Back in the 80th a Panthera was used in Dutch Stock Car racing. A fan favorite. Remarkable survival skills present in this car.

I still enjoyed watching you strip. When I see people use a peanut shell air stripper, I think that’s so abrasive on the metal. I tell them of your company and maybe on local to where they are.

I love the DeTomaso Pantera. Rare exotic car indeed. On my list of favorites along with the Maserati Bora and Chapparal 2D. Hope the restoration goes well.

im really enjoying watching videos on people's hard work. so soothing to watch

And that’s how you wash a car. Amazing! Thanks for sharing.

I love it when you can see the history of hundreds of dollars worth of repairs revealed under the paint.

That was very satisfying to watch. I owned a Pantera years ago, it was a blast to own. Well done.

Thank you for preserving these magnificent pieces of history. ✌🏻🇺🇸

Wow, that thing is in GREAT shape. Thanks for the video.

Best one yet! I too love Pantera's, the perfect mix of European and American engineering. Nothing better than that old Cleland or drop in a Coyote with a super charger.

That's gonna be a beautiful car once restored👍

Imagine what this bad boy will look like after a full renovation 🤔👌

I , enjoyed watching this. I was 16 when the Pantera first came on the US Market. They had two or three of them on the front row at the Lincoln Dealer. Always imagined myself owning one but even though I worked with Ferrari, Maserati and Lamborghini for the later half of my career, I never got around to getting a Pantera.

Seen this process before. Amazing. As I know little about this it's hard to imagine how this car would be restored. I guess first thing would be to do all the metal work, then primer, and undercoating to start with.

An absolutely best way of respraying a Car..preparation is everything...

Few cars give me a chub these days. The Pantera does. I LOVE these things. When I win the lotto, I'll own one.

Absolutely gorgeous car. Fantastic work. Hope to be lucky enough to see the car after it's been fully restored someday.

I have always loved the Pantera. The combination of Italian design and American muscle creates an emotional reaction in me better left to the privacy of my mind. 😊

I remember walking through a parking lot at Ft Huachuca, AZ in 1972 .. finding and walking around a Pantera ... what I mostly remember is how low the roof was. Nothing like I had ever seen before in person.

Whoa... a mythical beast of a car this one... You may not see another one.

Sweet... I would really like to keep an eye on the rebuild on this one if possible. Nicely done!

My most favourite car. I had a Dinky toy model of one as a 5 year old and have loved them for the fifty years since. Happy new year all.

My friend has one of these that he purchased in the mid 70's. I got a ride in it then and it was unbelievably noisy and fast. He still has it stored in a garage somewhere.

OMG! ASMR! Watching that paint come off with the pressure washer is soooooooo satisfying! 😁

That's a great illustration of what happens before paint bubbles appear from rust formation......first of all you get those 'black spiders' creeping outwards, that are barely visible until the paint is actually removed. That Pantera was covered in spiders.

Brings me back to when I used to strip and clean silk screens for printing lol that pressure washer hehe

My older cousin had one of these and it was probably the fastest and scariest car I have ever been in. It was so cool

The cost is pretty good considering the ammount of time it takes to dip a car. It would save you weeks of sandblasting or sanding and doesnt warp the panels at all and completely cleans everything that you cant get with sandblasting/sanding. Thinking im gonna get my project dipped

this is why we need to get rid of plastic. metal can always be recycled in amazing ways. But plastic just stays aroud for thousands of years.

i wish if you kept the sticker

Inside and out, those cars are such a work of art

Great video ... I've never seen an acid dipping done before and how easily it pressures off. Wish the Pantera ID was removed before it was dipped.

Why do I find this so satisfying to watch? 🙂

So fresh and so clean. It's all about the phresh.

Chemical Dipping a 1972 De Tomaso Pantera to remove all the paint and rust. I was waiting to see if anything at all came out of the dip,. Surprisingly yes it did.

Rust looks like it was where the water settled. Great to see it stripped back to what looks like a blank canvas.

That was one of the most satisfying things to watch ever...

Very interesting even to a guy who will probably never restore another car. Walk around and pictures of the GSX at the end were excellent, if I ever did restore another car it would be getting shipped to you!

That one was in excellent shape. Not many of those left. Nice work getting it ready for body repairs.

This was always my dream car, I always found them really beautiful.

Who else thought this whole process took a day or two 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️ I've said it before, but I'll say it again, Great Content. Great Channel.

Great job guys, best results start from scratch 👏. Great selection of old cars from my eara. ❤from New Zealand supporters ❤

Great video as always. If I was owner I would have somehow tried to save the door jam decal.

Pressure washing is satisfying. This is beyond that! I wonder if anybody has ever hydro dipped a car?? That would look cool.

Did a complete restoration one of these in a European Auto body shop, in the late 70s, it was also red, surprisingly these bodies are extremely easy to work on.....

While others prefer the Ferrari or Lambo, the De Tomaso Pantera ( early 70's models ) has always been my dream car. It's a road warrior.

As long as you are dipping it, I'd love to see it nickel plated. 🤔 Love those Pantera's 🥳

It must be terribly exciting to get a perfectly clean car back to begin work… I’d imagine if I were the client and that were my car I’d be ecstatic

"My name's Trevor and I'll be your stripper today" Magic Mike music intesifies

The Pantera was a good looking car. Elvis had one... and got so mad at it that he shot it with his Colt .45 1911. It must have been a real sweetheart.

That is so cool! Does the e-coat also act like a primer or do you need to prime it as well?

My 1967 Alfa Romeo Giulia Super - that I owned for 21 years - had MUCH less rust on it. (I sold the car, as it needed new blood) Looks almost as fun as peeling scabs.

Love the Pantera, I would have been really worried not much would have been left.

When I was 12 I stripped and entire mustang with a DA and a wire wheel, this dip tank was like a wet dream

El auto de mis sueños junto con el uraco de Lamborghini el pantera es diseño de Alejandro De Tomaso un ingeniero argentino que de mayor viajo a europa creando estas maravillas ,si alguna vez se han fijado en los, centros de las llantas es la bandera argentina con una T en el centro, sin dudas un gran coche y un gran diseñador casi a nivel de otro argentino, este si, actual don Horacio Pagani ,que tan bien nos hace quedar por todo el mundo a los argentinos.

Beautiful paint removal job !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Great content, it would be nice if they were just a little longer. Don't think any would mind a 20 min. Video of your content. Keep up the great work. 🎉

The older I get the smaller my list of 'dream cars' gets, but I still want one of these beautiful cars. I know they have flaws but I don't care.

man ive always loved panteras, their rear end with all that tire sticking out is perfect lol

Pantera... My dream car since i'm a kid.

A freind of mine had one of these back in the seventies if my memory serves me right, it had a blown motor he couldn't source one so he put a small block Chevy motor in it. I remember at the time it was a thing of beauty back then.

Love the Pantera. Italian design matched with American V8 grunt. 🔥🔥🔥

I know that Panteras both had rust and paint problems , I am still amazed how much surface rust there was under the paint on this one!

The one and only way to make an restoration !!!

I've restored a few old cars and dipping would have been very helpful. When you're dipping a car like this do you also dip the doors, trunk lids, hoods and misc parts? If so, might be good to show that process as well.

Красота! Еще требуется большая емкость с эпоксидным грунтом :) Beauty! A large container with epoxy primer is also required

my all time fav vehicle in the 70s ! A client has a restored one

The minimal rust was amazing for a barn find Pantera.

Laser removal is better, no toxic chemicals required and the metal is left in tact where as chem dipping can eat in to and weaken some metal areas as well as creating toxic waste.

This is exciting. I been looking for someone who can do the E-Coat and for what I can find, all of them are based in the EU who do it. Now I definitely want to get the vehicle dipped 👍

This man is a BEAST on 2 player PowerWash Simulator.....

When left outside water collected in the corners of the back window and frequently the drains were clogged This led to a bad rust condition behind the front seats in th engine compartment. This was the only rust I had. If this was not caught it would destroy it. Also the main bearings on the back axles also tend to go bad. This will cause a dangerous condition if not caught. The only other issue was the overheating issue. The radiators were in the back and the front of the cars. The hoses stretched the length of the car which really was asking a lot of the water pump so it would have proper water flow to keep the engine from over heating. This was in 72, 73. I think it was fixed in the later years. Good luck and send some pictures.

Amazing work, love to do one of these one day.

the dips never lies....

Never forget! The angle of the dangle is directly proportional to the heat of the meat.

I could watch this all day

Worked on one in the late 80s I think they were made with rusty metal to start with, it had been in San Diego it's whole life but was a bag of rot, we ended up breaking it for spares