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[Pantera]

I wish I could leave them the way they are but at the very least they deserve to be repainted and I can do a quality job on them. I stripped the paint off the '69 down to bare glass years ago and then quit working on it so that I could devote more time to racing SCCA cars. I have always thought I would live forever when I was young and now all of a sudden I am looking hard at 60!!! I want to be sure that these cars survive me and go into hands that will perserve them.

I love them and they are so much fun to cruise the drive in's in on a Sat night. Of course they are now too valuable to risk doing that with. Naw.... I will have to go once or twice with one or the other. That dam LS-7 has got to be a handfull at low speeds and it has to be even harder to go slow in with the alum heads and the hotter cam. I had a hard time with cooling the LS-6 that is in it now. The last time I drove it was at Hallett OK racetrack in a SCCA autocross where we got to run the entire track. On Hoosiers it ran a 1:29.8 which would be good enough to be on the second row of the grid of a GT-1 race back in the '80's.

I will be repairing just what needs to be fixed and give them both a hell of a paint job and then show them to the world. I really hate it that the '69 is Hugger orange instead of red like it looks like on the cover of the Cars magazine.

In all actually I would really like to go back black w/gold stripe the way I first got it. Damm that was one beatiful car back then. I think I will try to find a clone to make it look like it did back then so that I could go cruise with it. Perhaps a SB callaway drivetrain instead of the big block for street use? might even be faster than the BB 427.