Kerry reg Detomaso Pantera

TigerTim

Here's one. Kerry reg 1973 Detomaso Pantera



http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1973-Detomaso-Pantera-GRIV-Spec-/130862438329?pt=Automobiles_UK&hash=item1e780257b9#ht_0wt_0

T.

kev1.3s

was there not a picture of a red Irish reg pantera floating around?

Grimreaper666

My next door neighbour has a light green one.

kev1.3s

Grimreaper666 wrote: »

My next door neighbour has a light green one.

But is it on an original Irish plate? There is also a blue one in arklow.

carchaeologist

The one above has a 1979 registration. Not a car iv seen before.

Another Kerry reg is KIN1 which was/is a Lamborghini Countach.

carchaeologist

carchaeologist wrote: »

The one above has a 1979 registration. Not a car iv seen before.

Another Kerry reg is KIN1 which was/is a Lamborghini Countach.

After getting a shoe up the arse from a fellow boardsie who rightfully pointed out that its registered in Belgium, if i had bothered to actually read the add, which i didnt...

So, Cartell tells us that YZX139 was actually a bog standard MK2 Escort..

Blue850

carchaeologist wrote: »

The one above has a 1979 registration. Not a car iv seen before.

Another Kerry reg is KIN1 which was/is a Lamborghini Countach.

Seen it once, must be 20 years ago, "private" plate too;) , it is/was owned by KINahans the Mercedes commercial dealers near Moate

hi5

There was a DeTomaso Panthera in Kilkenny in the early 80's, a red one.
I can't rememeber the reg but as it was the early 80's it must have been pre 87 reg, no idea what happened to it
The guy who owned it likes his supercars (has a Diablo now) so its been traded in a long time now.

corktina

carchaeologist wrote: »

After getting a shoe up the arse from a fellow boardsie who rightfully pointed out that its registered in Belgium, if i had bothered to actually read the add, which i didnt...

So, Cartell tells us that YZX139 was actually a bog standard MK2 Escort..

Damn and I thought it was a ringer or a Kit Car....

kev1.3s

that's the one I was thinking of, not sure if it was an original Irish car but it had a pre 87 plate anyway. Wonder if it's still around?

TigerTim

Carchie, I thought you'd cop that straight away. Handy one to buy & leave it on the Kerry reg. About €25K out of my league though.

T.

68deville

there was a red pantera on an old wexford plate SZR11 i think?an italian
gentleman,think his surname was Forte who originally brought it into the
country but cant be certain

kev1.3s

68deville wrote: »

there was a red pantera on an old wexford plate SZR11 i think?an italian
gentleman,think his surname was Forte who originally brought it into the
country but cant be certain

Well if that reg no. Is correct then I fear that pantera has either left the country or at best been off the road for a long time.

PanhardPL

According to the Interpol Guide, you can take it that this registration is a personalized one. (CRF-009)

w124man

carchaeologist wrote: »

After getting a shoe up the arse from a fellow boardsie who rightfully pointed out that its registered in Belgium, if i had bothered to actually read the add, which i didnt...

So, Cartell tells us that YZX139 was actually a bog standard MK2 Escort..

Probably worth more than the Pantera ....:D:D:D

mondymike

w124man wrote: »

Probably worth more than the Pantera ....:D:D:D

A lad in clonakilty has or had one before.... Was talking to him about his rs2 when he got talking about this.

Capri

Blue850 wrote: »

Seen it once, must be 20 years ago, "private" plate too;) , it is/was owned by KINahans the Mercedes commercial dealers near Moate

Was down in Kinahans some years ago ( looking at a V10 Dodge Ram) and he showed me a Merc Vito with a mid-mounted Lambo engine "from a crashed Lambo" he told me so maybe the Lambo met it's end on an Irish road ??

Looked at a Black/dk blue DeTomaso Pantera years ago in a garage opp Huets in Lad Lane :cool:

hi5

Capri wrote: »

Was down in Kinahans some years ago ( looking at a V10 Dodge Ram) and he showed me a Merc Vito with a mid-mounted Lambo engine "from a crashed Lambo" he told me so maybe the Lambo met it's end on an Irish road ??

Looked at a Black/dk blue DeTomaso Pantera years ago in a garage opp Huets in Lad Lane :cool:

It was at Kilbeggan a few years ago,

I found this on the net

http://weblog.killinure.net/?tag=vito



Heres a translate;
http://translate.google.ie/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fweblog.killinure.net%2F%3Ftag%3Dvito&act=url

DarenO

Didn't one of the previous owners of Mondello have a Pantera, met the lad who built that merc/lambo, some job

Capri

Pity he didn't leave it as a 'sleeper' Vito van, '110D' badge on the back :eek::eek::eek:

Blue850

This "Mayo" reg Bristol 406 Zagato is in this month's Classic and Sportscar magazine

Do-more

DarenO wrote: »

Didn't one of the previous owners of Mondello have a Pantera, met the lad who built that merc/lambo, some job

Martin Birrane?

Capri wrote: »

Pity he didn't leave it as a 'sleeper' Vito van, '110D' badge on the back :eek::eek::eek:

I remember they had a older Merc Van (208?) heavily modified years ago, I don't know what engine was it it but I have a vague memory of it having exhaust stacks going up the side of the van. I don't think they do subtle!

There is a guy who posts on the motors forum occasionally steveirl2 who has a late model Pantera.



Hermy's photo of it at Terenure a few years back.



There was also another thread on here a few years back which mentions various Panteras being in the country.

kev1.3s

Great read that other thread! Its amazing that nowadays its not all that unusual to see exotic supercars due to the Celtic tiger and all but back in the day it must have been really special to see and not for the new money.

Do-more

kev1.3s wrote: »

Great read that other thread! Its amazing that nowadays its not all that unusual to see exotic supercars due to the Celtic tiger and all but back in the day it must have been really special to see and not for the new money.

Yeah I remember when I was in secondary school late 70's early 80's and there was a mid engined Renault 5 Turbo that we used to see from time to time and that was about as exotic as it got!

kev1.3s

Do-more wrote: »

Yeah I remember when I was in secondary school late 70's early 80's and there was a mid engined Renault 5 Turbo that we used to see from time to time and that was about as exotic as it got!

That was pretty exotic! Where we came from down the country you were lucky to see an mgb, I remember the first ferrari I saw was at that lotto dreamcar stand at the motor show someone posted pics of here recently, almost wet myself when I saw the trio of exotica on show that day. On the subject of lambos there was a place near tinnaheely tuff terrain I believe it was called where you took ex mod landrovers up the mountain, at the time I had a s1 landrover so I used to call in there when I was passing to annoy the mechanic and he told me that the women who owned it also owned a countach and sometimes she brought it there anybody know more about that one?

kev1.3s

Blue850 wrote: »

This "Mayo" reg Bristol 406 Zagato is in this month's Classic and Sportscar magazine

one thing that always bugged me about Zagato in particular was that they had an ability to sell the same design's over and over again.

for example.
https://www.google.ie/search?q=lancia+flaminia+zagato&hl=en&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=j106UYiRPObm7AbHtoHYDQ&ved=0CAoQ_AUoAQ&biw=1024&bih=649
Some call it a design language I call it lazy but they got away with it for years.

Grimreaper666

Blue850 wrote: »

This "Mayo" reg Bristol 406 Zagato is in this month's Classic and Sportscar magazine

I saw that at the Retromobile too, thought it was Irish alright.

Blue850

Grimreaper666 wrote: »

I saw that at the Retromobile too, thought it was Irish alright.

Its a New Zealand plate

Grimreaper666

Blue850 wrote: »

Its a New Zealand plate

Oh really!! My bad..............:o

galwaytt

Bob Bradley in Galway had one in the '80's......I wonder where it ended up ?

68deville

After some research there was a Detomaso dealer in Bunclody in the
70s,spoke to a man who remembers a red and white one in the showrooms
The owners sons were into racing and had several nice cars at the time and
Apparently that's where the red SZR 11 pantera originated

kev1.3s

That is an unusual place to find an exotic car dealership, I wonder if there's any photos knocking about?

68deville

The showrooms are long gone,it's an Applegreen station now but opposite
The machine shop is still there

Suasdaguna1

White one Leixlip area late 70's

Cienciano

68deville wrote: »

After some research there was a Detomaso dealer in Bunclody in the
70s,spoke to a man who remembers a red and white one in the showrooms
The owners sons were into racing and had several nice cars at the time and
Apparently that's where the red SZR 11 pantera originated

That's officially the weirdest few words I've read on boards! A Detomaso dealer on Bunclody! Wonder if he sold may?

68deville

Cienciano wrote: »

That's officially the weirdest few words I've read on boards! A Detomaso dealer on Bunclody! Wonder if he sold may?

Colliers was the garage,was a big concern in its day,motor,agri and machine
Shop,one of the sons who sold them raced chevrons in Ireland and the uk
Round the same time and owned at least 2 e types,all back in the 70s
Dealer or not the man I spoke to remembers at least two if not three
In the showrooms/workshop

kev1.3s

There was a place called colliers engineering on ryland road I think.

hi5

Wasn't there a Colliers in Carlow aswell?

DeThomaso's were not that sophisticated, big American Ford 351 v8, yummy:)

Zoo4m8

68deville wrote: »

Colliers was the garage,was a big concern in its day,motor,agri and machine
Shop,one of the sons who sold them raced chevrons in Ireland and the uk
Round the same time and owned at least 2 e types,all back in the 70s
Dealer or not the man I spoke to remembers at least two if not three
In the showrooms/workshop

One of the sons lives near me ( the non racing one I think) next time I see him I'll ask him to confirm or deny these rumours/facts !

kev1.3s

Make it you're business to see him

68deville

kev1.3s wrote: »

There was a place called colliers engineering on ryland road I think.

The machine shop is a furniture store now opposite the topaz station,the agri
Business was just before the co-op and they also had showrooms where the
Entrance to the Millrace hotel is now,it burned down circa 1992

Zoo4m8

Zoo4m8 wrote: »

One of the sons lives near me ( the non racing one I think) next time I see him I'll ask him to confirm or deny these rumours/facts !

At long last came across this lad this morning, social family situation so not able to have a decent chat, in fact interrupted his conversation with someone else to ask him if it was true that they were Pantera agents in their premises in Bunclody and he confirmed that they were...promised a longer chat next time, how they go the agency , how many sold and so on.. So there ye go ,it's true!

68deville

Told ya so! I have a pic of the premises in the 80s when it was O learys
VW Audi,showroom is long gone