1972 deTomaso Pantera, Group 4
Owned by Jan Taraszkiewicz

Numerous awards and featured articles, including Best of Show & Best Engine Concourse Italiano, People's Choice Vegas, 1st Place Huntington Beach, 2003 POCA Calendar Car, featured twice in Pantera International Magazine and POCA.

Group 4 steel flares, butt-welded to the body for strength. The car has also been reinforced with metal in all of the weak places, such as around the taillights, at the top of the rear fenders near the roof, and around all hinges of the deck lid and roof. Body surface has been completely smoothed, and bodylines accentuated. The paint is PPG Dark Cranberry #73866 basecoat & clear coat.

The underside of the car has been bellied and finished in a black satin powder coat, with room for the stainless steel pipes and hoses to travel through the middle of the car.

It also has an aluminum gas tank and polished stainless steel firewall, custom louvered panel section on the exterior rear between the exhausts, and Group 4 Carello taillights.

The engine is a 351 Cleveland stroked to 383 by Kuntz & Company in Arkansas. They hold numerous NHRA national records, many with Cleveland engines.

Quite a lot has been done to the engine both cosmetically and performance-wise. It has just slightly over 520 horsepower and over 510 lbs of torque, balanced & blueprinted. Kuntz & Company installed an SVO stud girdle, a custom windage tray with scraper, Crane roller rockers, Crower 3/8" push rods, stainless steel valves, ported and polished S.V.O. A-3 aluminum heads. Jack Rousch, the famed race engine builder in Michigan, provided the aluminum intake manifold. It has a 3.75" stroker crank, Child & Alberts 6" rods and Venolia pistons. Compression ratio is 10.5 to 1, MSD ignition, with 6300 rev-limiter chip. The cam is a solid lifter cam by Competition Cams, and has a gross lift of .562 on the intakes and .556 on the exhaust. The duration at .05 is 236 on the intake and 244 on the exhaust. Carb Shop Holley 750 cfm four barrel with vacuum secondaries flowed to 870 cfm. A 10 qt. oil pan with trap doors is used. GT5 Headers, Jet Hot coated.

The stock seats have been recovered in Connolly leather from England, as is the rest of the interior, which is the leather used on Rolls Royce cars. It has a custom burlwood center dash, Kenwood speakers are installed behind each of the seats, and the amp is up under the dash above the glove box. Custom mats with colors matching the exterior and interior of the car. It has a Momo steering wheel, V.D.O gauges, the carpet, headliner, dash, etc. are all in show condition.

All suspension is race Group 5 from the DeTomaso factory, including chrome control arms, large chrome solid sway bars, hub carriers, axels, chrome rack & pinion/chrome brackets. Chromed bolts and parts throughout the car that you would never really see unless you got way under the car, such as the steering rack and brackets. Koni shocks with chrome Group 5 springs, urethane bushings, adjustable A arms, upgraded larger solid chrome sway bars, front and rear.

The wheels are Wilkinson billet aluminum Group 4 wheels, with 10.5 X 17 front and 13.5 X 17 rear, in perfect shape, inside and outside of the wheels are highly polished. Tires are Dunlop brand with 245/40 ZR 17 front and 355/35 ZR 17 rear. Cooling system and AC built by Ron Davis Racing, with chrome & stainless steel water tubes, polished stainless water & overflow tanks, aluminum water pump, rotary AC pump, and AC condenser located to the front of radiator.

The ZF transmission and related parts are all highly polished, with the ring gear safety wired. Clutch is a Kevlar clutch. It has chromed Spicer half shafts. All the lines throughout the car are steel braded.

It has vented rotors and 4 piston calipers in place of the stock units and steel braded brake lines.

The entire electrical system has been rewired.