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I'm ok thanks -- going to finish doing up the Vette - move it on - then hunt for a 71 - 72 again ....but one that is a keeper this time I like driving the Vette - I like to looks ... but I hate working on it ... my wrist isnt designed to gimbal 360° and can't go "S" shaped into the tight...

Sorry to be a pedantic putz re the title of this thread saying this is a Ford Pantera... ..Alejandro DeTomaso was the man behind the Pantera - though most were Ford powered, it didn't come off the Ford assembly line - all originals were made in Modena Italy and the stylist was the great Tom...

You are a vert....a pervert (y):ROFLMAO::love::giggle:

After 1968, the design team changed and went to Larry Shinoda brought in under GM's Bunkie Knudsen - these produced the 1969 and 1970 fatties, as I refer to them. By 1970 sales dropped markedly; the buying public walked away unhappy with the bulbous, pudding bodies, also America's Automotive...

The Corvette forums are filled with other people like me, poisoned by the effect... the place looks like the unwashed Zombie apocalypse ... people that have bought C3's now meander around the neighbourhood babbling incoherently, staring blankly into space like the French,. Some take to the...

I tell you guys ... I need to get a car that doesn't require you to be shrunk to the size a Leprechaun, have eyes on the ends of sticks that can rotate like an Iguana.... and 3 gimballed wrists in each arm 120° offset so you can approach bolt heads at any angle .... It's like trying to do...

Yuh'aaaawwlll know me - I'm the Brit who had two most delightful mustangs -a 351 FMX loaded "02" body 1971 Sportsroof in Forest Green ...and an utterly solid red and black "05" body Mach 1 351 FMX 1971. Then when the red one went to new owner - I used some $$$$$'s to get this Vette Let me...

Sorry ... I'm missing something -- how did the black one at $85k come into the picture ... it wasn't what I was asking about .. equally that could be made out of putty ... what point am I missing ... you've completely lost  me . 

$85k??? ...what's it made from? ... Platinum, Gold, unobtanium ? 

4x4 uses a straining spoon :classic_blink: ... is that so you can see the lumps that came out of the trans fluids ?  :biggrin:

Waddya think ?  https://www.carsforsale.com/vehicle/details/78612152 is it a contender ? ... is it a bit too much m00lah ? 

30 seconds is enough to cause someone from the good ol US of A, years of expensive therapy ...I'm surprised there haven't been more lawsuits

YEAH ? I'll have these guys on speed dial  :biggrin:

Now THAT is a Christmas -- why cant all the shopping centres ( I think you guys call them strip Malls )  be Motor Part bargain shops ?

Baahhh Humbug !  :whistling: Christmas is a reminder that I'm getting closer to death... ... especially when against my will I'm forcibly dragged around all the local shopping Malls, by the genetic disorders that make up my family -  the music makes me feel like I am actually living in...

Well here's the news on this...  The frame is as solid as an English castle, the trailing arms, half shafts, U joints, are perfect... the front has all been done - someone has even swapped all the rubber bushings for new- ...its a rebuild 350c, Edelbrock Carb and intake (do I turn it into a 383...

"...I really like that polyester look " ...yup that was era.  :whistling:

...beeeeecaaaause  I bought this instead of another Mach 1  :classic_blink: Sorry chaps ... I'm now a "LEPER" of epic proportions.  what is a chap to do ?

I'm not sure what improvement it provides. ....and I know I'm probably doing a moon  :help: at the minister in church on a Sunday saying this... but performance wise, I've had both ... it seems like a lot of effort for what feels like status or 1% increase in advantage to the carb...to me it was...

Hey ... give me my wife back  :classic_ninja: