I second that

Third. I love he colors on the outside, though.

Agree, titan-black with yellow accents would be more pleasing. Brushed raw aluminums or even titan aswell

and gauges with some actual numbers would be nice

That's exactly what i thought. Absolutely stunning.

Amen Amen and AMEN

Hahahahah

XD

Hey, Hi...7 years.....I missed this statement,,,,Shut your cockholster., Stay Safe

it's perfect for the era, even slight conservative actually. it's only recently we demand boring grey interiors

I don’t mind the materials in that interior, but the colours aren’t right for it. Too bright.... the body is really interesting from a design point of view....I don’t mind it, but it’s a one off modification that turns it into a kit car.....but not that bad to look at. DeTomaso wouldn’t be too upset, I’d wager. Should have kept the motor a Ford, but in an aluminum block and head config with crazy power...

It's horrid. Nikey are a joke.

Nike is the epitome of poor taste

@@EamonnSeoigh Agreed I can accept almost everything but that motor choice is just sinful and real insult to both De Tomaso and Ford engineers that put their heart and souls into that car and engine

It was Shelby not ford- and taking shelby out was- stupid

Correcto 👍

I figure it's deliberate, to troll Ford fans. That and the Chevy motor.

Alex Say again

MetalJesusRocks?! I watch your gaming videos all the time, but I had no idea you were into cars to. I play tons of games, but I also work on cars for a living and also enjoy spirited driving every now and again. To be honest, I think the exterior of the modded Pantera looks pretty cool even if the classic obviously looks better. The yellow interior however is disgusting, full on black would have been all that was nessesary to make it stand out without making it look like its owned by a Nike entrepreneur. Keep it real dude and stay safe, you're awesome!

Seems like they should have done a Mangusta if they wanted the exposed headlights.

The basis of Fords NASCAR Programme for Decades unyet here we are the Transgender era

Everything I said in the video and more I said right there to their faces. That's why they brought me the car; they wanted feedback on dialing it in. When the car doesn't inspire confidence, I don't want to drive it fast in the rain with no wipers or seatbelts.

Nice exhaust sound, and nice bodywork. That's about it. Apparently, it's all about appearences only.

TheSmokingTire thanks , listen love all your stuff and the content you give all of us. I won't go on and on sitting here at a computer lol, just make videos and ill be happy, sometimes i critique things when i should probably just be happy they exist. greatly enjoy your content keep it up

Guilherme Mauricio no, if you watched the video, you'd see that it had absolutely zero fine tuning. Good parts are worthless if you don't tune them. They brought it to me for my feedback so they could fine tune it and make it drive properly, and they allowed me to make a film in the process.

Oooh I see... But I still don't kow how someone would build a car without the knowledge of how it should feel...

For one, history wears rose tinted glasses. Indeed, the pretty ones are the ones that get restored and resto-modded and cared for and shown. We see the big, 427 wielding, four speed COPO Camaro, not the six-cylinder automatic that people actually bought. And more so than that is the fact that up until the early seventies emissions and safety laws were virtually non-existent. You could have a car with a razor edged front section and pointed wings because there was no legislation telling automakers you can't slice or impale pedestrians in a low speed collision. Nowadays there is such a maze of red tape regarding how the cars have to react in all manner of situations, how the lights have to line up, how much candle power they can have, etc, etc, etc. The fact that there are cars now that are still legitimately good looking is a testament to how hard the designers are working within the new sandbox they've been given and how far science and technology have advanced.

Because government regulators killed the cool..(crash safety structures, fuel economy, pedestrian safety (e.g. flat fascias), and those horrible airbags)

I loved the Maserati Montreal, the Montevideo Hal, the Mangusta, the Espada, etc. I hated the Cadillac with the boot cut off and a sloping rear.

less computer cad shit

they desecrated it!

King Of Sync always taking the easy way to make a turd out of a perfect ride

Whether it's a Chevy, Ford or Mopar, stay true and through. You spend this kinda money on a build like this and to compliment a car of this stature, you don't throw an LS engine in there. That's just cheezy. There are some things you just keep pure, and this is one of them.

Forgive them for not trying top stiff a coyote pig into it.

@Eclipse538 text suggestion because I swipe means im drunk... lol ok

If Pantera "where" to...?

The original wasn't that great and needed mods to actually be a good sports car

@@joshfiedler6675 I agree with that!

kangaroo scrotum. bahahahahah

Agreed.

Ditto, Nike should have been told to take a hike.

darker interior would make it look more bad ass...maybe more of black and less yellow

I think its perfect. Really like the ringbrother car better!:)

yeah, then you'd lose the american rumble but that's not a bad thing....the flat plane crank would give it a more euro sound.

ya, would actually make power with a chev in it.... and would actually make it from A to B.....baaaaaaa ford blooooows

Cayote big heavy

@@muskokamike127 coyote isnt a flat plane crank you know that right lol

@@732Mopar did not know that! Thanks for the head's up.

SpyderRios only from the inside it doesn't, from the outside it looks very aggressive, something I like.

Both of them are old... the yellow is still a 70s model but its a restomod

+Caleb Robin 351's sound alot better then ls's

Which one?

Who cares about dimebag

hes been dead since 04.

CutePanda881 12 people and counting...

I was there. I know, I know, "yeah right".

SpecialKLSX No shit… I don't see the 70,000 tons of metal tour crying about Evil Chuck

Why? It would be slow and expensive, and if you didn't hear him the "LS Is the best bang for your buck motor"

xSlammedx1971xC10x Slow and expensive are you kidding me. The boss 302 motor in this car would be perfect. The right tune you would have a nice 400+ HP to the rear wheels. I'm all about the ford power plant in this thing, this car has become a corvette with a body kit sadly.

5.8L DOHC 32 valve. Leave it NA though

You want it to be slow?

DeTomaso used what was available at the time. These guys used whats best. Solid block, best heads on the market, one cam, simple reliable big power.

PS needs t-tops

Call me crazy but I think they got the new Ford GT idea from that car

11094DEREK yea I think so too

Yea it does

The original idea was to have a reliable, powerful and affordable engine, thus an american V8. One you can replace for the price of a Lamborghini valve seat, as JC put it. To a european like me, a Pantera is a Pantera when it has an american V8. Of course, a car like the AC Cobra needs to have a Ford engine. And yes, the 350R flat-plane would be the coolest engine possible for this car. Guess that engine wasn't available yet when this was built

As a little update for you on that topic... They're being really selfish with the flat-plane. You can get the cross plane version of the very same engine. As a crate engine for whatever build you'd like. With a ton of high end parts. Including their cobra jet throttle body and heads. All-in-all a package that throws down approx 600HP. But the flat plane 5.2 is pretty much a GT350 exclusive engine. So, if you want one. You're pretty much going to have to scrap a new GT350 to get one. Go look up the 5.2L Aluminator XS if you want more info.

Kevin McKinzie i totally agree. Its not a Pantera unless it has a FORD motor. GM what a joke

keep it ford

Man I was like why a Chevy motor myself.

My Kangaroo ball sack leather is already out of fashion.

Yes he eas Argentinean but his company was Italian

An Argentinian of Italian parents, many Italians migrated to Argentina in the past

I believe you're right on the money.

Same color scheme and layout but theyre different

i think they have italian roots ..maserati/alfa

Those are Alfa Romeo Berlina 2000 taillights.

no

+manofweed1 No, a ricer is a small economy car made for fuel efficiency that has superficial modifications that do nothing to aid performance and look down right terrible. e.g. a Honda Civic with a spoiler the size of a park bench and a bad paintjob with a massive exhaust pipe that sounds like farting through a fan.

could see why you think that though

manofweed1 yes it is

manofweed1 he riced the fuck out of the pantera

In places where it's legal to drive without seatbelts, I can sort of understand people leaving them off an old bench seat cruiser, but in a Pro touring car you need to be strapped in to drive it in anger. Only reason I can think of is the race harness gets bolted in for track days. Edit- Then I got to the Nike part. Ok this car has no seatbelts for the same reason it has no functioning gauges. It's a pointless running shoe ad crafted by an advertising agency. The fact that it even has an engine is coincidental. Utterly pointless and I have no idea why this would make me buy a pair of sneakers.

CosmoxYRik In the USA at least,there's NOWHERE you're allowed to drive without seatbelts,unless the car was made pre-1955. Classic cars,you must have at least a lapbelt.

Cool, yeah I'm on the other side of the world, thought there might be some states left in the US where that was semi-legal. So not only is it a half assed, half finished running shoe ad, but you can't technically drive it anywhere. It's even less useful than those stupid pump up basketball sneakers Nike were pushing in the early 90's. Yeah as I said my first thought was "oh ok, the seat and harness go in on raceday" cos with a "pro-tour" car you'd expect to be doing some Pro-touring, but this car is just a useless piece of bling that'll be shoehorned into an upcoming rap video. I'd rather drive Corwin's deathtrap RX7.

I'm glad you didn't take my comment the wrong way Rik.Things typed don't always read as they're meant to sound. I also hated the Nike Pantera,although I love the Ring Bros. the Nike Pantera is an exercise in futility. And from this side of the world Blessed Be My Friend. :-)

CosmoxYRik illegal in any country.see wikipedia

So if it stood in your driveway one day, you would shred it, or? ;-)

@@mortenhansen3455 sell it of course and buy a clean '72

1000%👍🏾

And no seatbelt XD

+Rob Wagner Comparatively, that a good deal. Thanks for the info.

The headers give it the unique sound.

Yes there were, which is why unlike other period exotics, so many Panteras are modified and that's OK. There really are very few true purists of that brand. There were changes like, every year, so people are OK doing their own mods.

those were the pedals that were in the car when they found it. I did mention (and demonstrate on the stock one) the difference.

TheSmokingTire Love the channel, Matt's voice has an odd soothing quality to it. Is that creepy for me to say? BTW Did they specifically say where they found this car?

Um, no thanks. I had two cars with pop-up headlights and wouldn't want another. The mechanisms can fail (bad at night when you need them) and they look _extremely_ dated nowadays. The negatives far surpass whatever advantages they may offer.

your a shit stain move along...

THAT'S THE SOUND OF A THOUSAND PANTIES DROPPING !

Elvis Harris yeah man panties

Elvis Harris And with the Chevy motor in it and not a Ford its the sound of a thousand panties during periods

James S I'm putting a ford motor in a corvette and taking it to shows. Just to hear chevy people bitch.

I can rattle off any or all "poor design" aspects that I can see right off the bat if anyone's interested.

Ricardo Ellison Please do.

Ricardo Ellison well 6:16 says a lot

dood9971 OK, First off, at 1:35 let's take a look, OK? Looking at the six rectangles we have on the front, If you will note the line of the "hood" does line up with the central opening of the lower valence, left & right, OK, a good start, that's OK. Drop a vertical line for that one & it looks OK, drop another vertical line from the headlight inner edge, it lines up with the hoodline, but just barely, as it rounds the edge of the bumper it's going south, bad. the lower outboard scoops while turning in to match-up with the central lower opening have now "grown in width. Now, run a horizontal line from these two outboard scoops, the tops don't match-up with the center, the gaps continue "flaring" wider & wider as they come down to the vestigil air-dam on the edge.. Now compare the six openings , each one is virtually the same surface area, just different shapes ...there are ratios designers use....according to just where you want the eyes to be drawn to. Do you want the eyes drawn towards the central "exhaust" vents, or the headlights, lower valence? No "decision here, just a mish-mash of shapes. A simple & much more esoteric fix, shrink the lower outboard scoops, index the outer edge to match that funky "kink" on the corner of the headlamps, appx. 2/3 rds, bring the inner edge in to match the center opening, have the outer edge to match the inner edge. way way back in 1974, after I saw the Wankel rotor Corvette concept car, at the Worlds Fair in Washington.........I wound up putting to paper, my take on car design........sure enough my old drawing looked very similar to the lines of the "new" 1982 Pontiac Trans-Am........kinda spooky. Try downloading, screenshot, or take pictures of a screen, jump over to "Paint" & try re-doing designs.....you'd be amazed just how one can redo designs, & how much better it looks to YOUR eye.

Ricardo Ellison The problem with all that is it's completely subjective. Personally, I find the new version a heck of a lot more attractive than the old one.