In the midst of a booming collector car market, De Tomaso must have been pretty confident that its final iteration of the long-running Pantera, the SI, would be a commercial hit on its Turin Motor Show…
Read MoreHaving raced a variety of cars in his native Argentina, Alejandro de Tomaso departed for Italy in 1955. De Tomaso hailed from a politically prominent family and his move to Europe was reputedly…
Read MoreAlthough the Mangusta propelled De Tomaso to international fame, the Pantera was the firm’s breakthrough model. Several thousand Panteras were built, most of which left the factory between…
Read MoreAs part of the deal that saw Ford take a controlling stake in De Tomaso Automobili, the US giant funded development of a Group 4 racing Pantera that would go head-to-head with the Ferrari…
Read MoreOne of the last two Gr.4 Panteras built, both of which were completed in December 1972, chassis THPNMR02873 was allocated to the Jolly Club in Milan who would run the car on De Tomaso…
Read MoreHaving been the second manufacturer to offer a mid-engined production car (the four cylinder Vallelunga), Alejandro de Tomaso took his company into the big league when he launched a V8…
Read MoreThe wide-bodied Pantera GT5 unveiled at the Turin Motor Show in November 1980 ushered in the kind of fat arches, deep side skirts and massive spoilers that were so in vogue at the time.
Read MoreChassis THPNMR02860 was one of 14 Panteras built to Group 4 racing specification. Completed on April 13th 1972 and dispatched to De Tomaso’s Belgian distributor, Claude Dubois in Brussels, it…
Read MoreHaving dabbled in a variety of motor sport disciplines since his company’s 1959 inception, Alejandro de Tomaso’s first production model, the Vallelunga Coupe, entered the final throes of development…
Read MoreIntroduced at the Turin Motor Show in November 1980, the GT5 was De Tomaso’s new range-topping iteration of the Pantera and became one of the few supercars of the Countach era that could match…
Read MoreFlush with Ford cash, De Tomaso decided to take the Pantera Group 4 motor racing where it would go head-to-head with Ferrari’s 365 GTB/4C, the Porsche 911 Carrera RSR and Chevrolet’s Corvette.
Read MoreHaving acquired De Tomaso to get their hands on the Pantera and beat domestic rivals GM and AMC to be the first to offer a mid-engined model, Ford also financed a high profile Group 4 racing…
Read MoreDe Tomaso focused their maiden Pantera campaign in 1972 on Group 4 racing. Here, the wide-arched and circa 470bhp Pantera Gr.4 had the speed to match anything in its class. To qualify for…
Read MoreChassis THPNLM02263 was the first of 14 Panteras built to Group 4 specification and the only example manufactured in 1971. It was completed on December 2nd of that year in the trademark…
Read MoreThe late eighties supercar boom proved a blessing for De Tomaso as an influx of speculators led to dramatically increased demand for all kinds of collectable and exotic motor cars. As a result, the…
Read MoreWhen De Tomaso unveiled the Pantera GT5 at the Turin Motor Show in November 1980, sales of the existing narrow-bodied Pantera began an inexorable decline. The GT5 tapped into the zeitgeist for…
Read MoreChassis THPNMR02872 was one of 14 Group 4 Panteras built. Aside from the prototype (completed in December 1971), the remaining cars were assembled in 1972. 2872 was signed off on June 27th. It…
Read MoreEver since Alessandro de Tomaso established his own company in 1959, he had sought the investment of a major motor manufacturer. That dream finally came true in 1969 when the Ford Motor…
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