Wrecked my dads toy but I actually fixed it! (lots of pics) Long story too.

[jcz1987]

Yesterday Afternoon, My dad wanted me to detail his 1973 Detamaso Pantera. It took me about two hours to do. After that, he let take it on a little cruise through town. I also had to pick up some stuff from the local market. So one my way back from the market. I pull into the first street to the neighborhood I live in. Its a long curvy road to get to my house and all of a sudden, Two deers pop out oonto the road I saw them but I hit the brakes as hard as I can and the brakes locked up. I skidded for about 100 ft barely missing the deer and I end up skidding through gravel. the car slid and swent onto a sidewalk and I hit a fire hydrant. The car came to a stop, but the amazing thing was the hydrant did not explode or burst water. It happened to be a dead spare fire hydrant left on the side. It also look really old too. But I backed out the car and I just see this huge dent onb the bottom grill I come back and dad saw that. He was pissed to see it and first but he was amazed that I didn't get hurt. He was angry for that night. I was thinking how I could fix it. Here are some of the car wut it looked like a few hours ago I spent two hours fixing the car. I was lucky becasue the grill used a flat black paint so I bought a can and got some tools and started fixing it. My dad is now impressed with me because the car now look like it never got into an accident. t took me two hours to fixit. I'm going to put the parts back on tommorow when the paint dires. Anyways here are the pics! Enjoy!




Heres the damage I put on



I found out that this part was put on by screws so I removed it eaasily and just popped out the damage and resprayed it.




I just painted it three hours ago





Tommorow I'll get more pics. My dad was amazed that I fixed it and he and I saved $1,000.

[Hyatus]

at least u know how lucky u are

[Oz]

Nothing like a close call for a wake up.

[Soyo]

let me drive it

[eversio11]

What a beautiful car.. how'd your father acquire it?

[Jimster]

Acquiring a Pantera isn't hard. There are a few of them punting around and they haven't inflated in value, yet.

Still, good on you for giving DIY panelbeating an honest attempt

[jcz1987]

Most Panteras in America cost between 20,000- even 45,000 dollars. We found this one alomost 10 years ago in a Ferrari dealer in San Francisco. My dad was able to get for $19,000 Not bad for a Italian car with a Ford 351 Clevland with 400 HP.

[ac427cpe]

better the hydrant than the deer...

good to realize how lucky you can get sometimes though.

and jim, panteras are starting to go up in price around here... sadly, i can't take advantage of getting one before they go up in value

btw, that's a beautiful car

[eversio11]

Originally Posted by jcz1987

Most Panteras in America cost between 20,000- even 45,000 dollars. We found this one alomost 10 years ago in a Ferrari dealer in San Francisco. My dad was able to get for $19,000 Not bad for a Italian car with a Ford 351 Clevland with 400 HP.

Wow, great deal, how many miles?

And I know Panteras aren't too rare, but it's certainly not the first choice most people pick when thinking 'exotic'

[jcz1987]

It has 55,000 miles but the new engine that we put in 7 years ago only has 7,000 miles on it.

[93redcobra]

good job .

[boingo82]

Good fix.

We once had a renter who'd gotten a Pantera for her 16th birthday. Guess how many weeks it lasted? Yep, less than one....

This same renter had a thing where she called all her boyfriends "mark" so as to avoid calling out the wrong name. She went through 10+ boyfriends in the time she rented from us, and never dated someone NOT named Mark.

[TexasF355F1]

That sux, but at least all turned out well. That's a great car and lucky to be able to drive something like that.

[FireBball972]

yeah, close call man. thankfully the damage wasn't greater. i know I wouldn't trust myself with a car like that because i probably would have been going 40 miles per hour faster than you were at the time!

[Chavez408]

you see why 16 year old's shouldnt drive...tisk tisk tisk