{"id":62142,"date":"2021-02-04T15:28:10","date_gmt":"2021-02-04T15:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.secret-classics.com\/?p=62142"},"modified":"2021-02-12T18:58:53","modified_gmt":"2021-02-12T18:58:53","slug":"de-tomaso-pantera-gts-prototipo-tony-mantas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.secret-classics.com\/en\/de-tomaso-pantera-gts-prototipo-tony-mantas\/","title":{"rendered":"De Tomaso Pantera GTS Prototipo Tony Mantas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

With the Pantera, De Tomaso presented the third road sports car in the brand’s history in 1971. Previously, there was the four-cylinder Vallelunga and then 400 examples of the Mangusta. To serve more markets, company founder Alejandro de Tomaso teamed up with Ford. The engines and various other technical components of the Pantera came from the US company. The basis was the further developed platform of the Mangusta, but with a new suspension and a body by Ghia. This design house belonged to Alejandro de Tomaso. As payment for the engines, it went to Ford in 1970. In the USA, the Pantera was in the showrooms of major Ford dealers. Initially, sales were good. However, due to Ford’s withdrawal from the project, from the mid-1970s onward they sometimes languished in the double digits per year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One-off for Constantin ‘Tony’ Mantas<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Wild Italian sports cars with plenty of power have always attracted an illustrious audience. At De Tomaso, Constantin ‘Tony’ Anastase Mantas was one of them. He was a close friend of the company’s boss and was born in Zitsa, Greece, in 1942. As a manager of actors and musicians, he had offices in Athens, Geneva and Milan. His fleet already included the unique De Tomaso Mangusta Spider when he ordered a new Pantera GTS in 1975. However, he expressly didn’t want an off-the-peg car, but a tailor-made one-off. So the car received the plastic fender extensions of the Group 4 racing version, a lowering kit, parts of the dashboard and center console in white leather, and an exhaust system without muffler below the rear section without bumper. Added to this was a roof spoiler in the style of the Lancia Stratos HF, a big rear spoiler and a deep front spoiler lip.<\/p>\n\n\n

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