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Texas

1973 De Tomaso Pantera

$139,995 40,500 miles

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Jacksonville, FL

1973 De Tomaso Pantera

$147,995 28,000 miles

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United States

1972 De Tomaso Pantera

$154,995 43,000 miles

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United States

1971 De Tomaso Pantera

$144,995 32,000 miles

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United States

Frequently Asked Questions about Classic De Tomaso

De Tomaso was founded in 1959 in Modena, Italy, by Alejandro de Tomaso, an Argentine racing driver born in Buenos Aires in 1928. He left Argentina in 1955 after being implicated in a plot against President Juan Peron, settled in Modena and married the American Isabelle Haskell, who had also raced. The company built racing cars first and turned to road cars in the 1960s.

The De Tomaso badge combines the blue and white of the Argentine flag with a T-shaped cattle brand. The colors refer to the birth country of founder Alejandro de Tomaso, and the symbol in the center is described as the brand his family used to mark livestock on its ranch in Argentina.

The first De Tomaso road car was the Vallelunga, first shown as an open prototype at the Turin Motor Show in 1963. The production version was a small mid-engine coupe built on a steel backbone chassis and powered by a 1.5-liter Ford four-cylinder engine shared with the Cortina. Production bodies were made by Ghia, the coachbuilder de Tomaso later bought. Sources differ on the total built, with figures ranging from about 53 to 59 cars.

Mangusta is Italian for mongoose, an animal known for killing cobras. The name is usually tied to a mid-1960s racing project between Alejandro de Tomaso and Carroll Shelby, builder of the Cobra, that fell apart. Introduced in 1966, the Mangusta was styled by Giorgetto Giugiaro at Ghia and used a mid-mounted Ford 289 or 302 V8. A total of 401 were built before production ended in 1971.

The De Tomaso Pantera was launched with a mid-mounted Ford 351 Cleveland V8 of 5.8 liters, usually quoted at about 330 horsepower in early cars and paired with a ZF transaxle. The body was designed by Tom Tjaarda at Ghia, with early bodies built by Vignale, and the Pantera was the first De Tomaso with a steel monocoque instead of a backbone chassis. Pantera is Italian for panther. The car debuted in Modena in March 1970.

Yes. Ford took a majority stake in De Tomaso and sold the Pantera through Lincoln-Mercury dealers in the United States starting in 1971, with 1,007 cars reaching the country in the first year. Sources differ on when imports stopped, giving either the end of 1974 or 1975. About 5,500 cars are usually cited as sold in the United States. De Tomaso kept building the Pantera afterward, until 1992.

Yes. Alejandro de Tomaso took over Maserati in 1975 with the backing of the Italian state holding company GEPI, and sold his remaining stake to Fiat in 1993. Under his control Maserati moved toward higher-volume cars such as the Biturbo. At various times his group also held the coachbuilders Ghia and Vignale, the motorcycle makers Benelli and Moto Guzzi, and the carmaker Innocenti.

The original De Tomaso company went into liquidation in 2004, the year after founder Alejandro de Tomaso died in Modena on May 21, 2003. The rights to the name were bought in 2009 by Italian businessman Gian Mario Rossignolo, and in 2015 the Hong Kong-based Ideal Team Ventures won the brand at a bankruptcy auction in Turin. That revived company unveiled a new car, the P72, at the 2019 Goodwood Festival of Speed.

The 6 De Tomaso listings on Classic Cars Arena right now are priced from $139,995 to $275,500, with a median asking price of $151,495. These are the prices sellers are asking today, not sale prices, and the figures change as cars are listed and sold.

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