Long & Newman Pantera
I just wanted to write a quick post to let everyone know I just spotted what looking like a Long & Newman Pantera Kit Car on craigslist. From what I can gather from a few other websites on the interwebs this one has been for sale since at least February 2016 .
As with most sellers on craigslist there is never really any info on the car. This listing just says its a Pantera Kit Car it has a 3.8 turbo, vw trans, no glass, no interior, no vin, and no title. Oh and that it is $3000 . I cant really tell you if that is a good price, a bad price or what the right price should be. My gut tells me 20 one hundred dollar bills in the sellers hands would take it away.
To give you a bit of info on these cars we dug into the archives.
Long & Newman Enterprises was a California based company . Lynn Long and Tony Newman operated a fiberglass shop and built the Datsun based Neoclassic called the Spartan as well as the Vector twin turbo.In addition Lynn also owned a Pantera repair shop ,
They offered this kit in a V6 version that ran a Chevy Citation engine and running gear. It was claimed to provide 37 MPG at the time. If the gas sipping V6 was not your style (this is a pantera replica after all) you could purchase their V8 chassis option. This would allow you to be a bit more authentic and run a Ford 351 with a ZF Transaxle.
When you purchased one of these kits it came to you with the doors, deck, and hood aligned and installed and the gelcoat color of your liking.
Im sure I have much more info on these but I will need to dig it out.
So what do you think? What would you pay for this car and what would you do with it? Seems that will the prices of a Pantera these days this could be a lot of fun for a small bit of cash.
If I was not on the other side of the US I might even make an offer on it.
http://reno.craigslist.org/cto/5607844555.html
Hi name’s johnny the car you wrote about is my car but not asking 3000 that was a typo I was asking 30000. Now that we got that out of the way I really don’t know what I have nobody seems to be sure I was wondering if you or anybody out there would like to make a offer I’m all ears. Since the last pics I’ve detailed her spent 3 hours and the first turn of the key she fired Wright up I couldn’t believe it but she pured like a cat. So if would help me get her sold I’m in Reno Nevada and the big car show is almost hear.I would owe you a night out in my town my number is 7753785089 the project in the jungle. As I already have my hands full with my 1965 Chrysler imperial and my 5 year old daughter 1957 nash metropolitan. This pantera is way out of my league. Hope to hear from you soon thanks.
Johnny,
Please do not take offense to this but $3000 is about the right price for this. $30,000 is a pipe dream and you really do not want to get rid of it. Anyone who buys this can easily dump another $20,000-$30,000 into it and at the price they could have bought the real deal. It is just not a realistic number.
If I recall these kits with the V6 were not even in the $30,000 price range when new.
I wish you the best of luck with the sale.
johnny, do you still have it?
Do you still have this Pantera replica? How does one contact you?
The original post was from 2016 and it was something I found on craigslist. I have no idea if it is still available.
LONG AND NEWMAN replica was listed on ebay after the owner passed away in 2014. I purchased the car from his wife. The owner was a certified welder and aircraft mechanic. The car had been completed with a steel rectangular tube frame and torsion bar suspension. The one piece fiberglass body was bolted to the floorpan and rolled on 9″ X 14″ aluminum slotted wheels. Rack and pinion steering, no power train, no interior but partially completed fiberglass doors, fiberglass hoods, fiberglass dashboard, fiberglass bumpers and inner wheel wells.
The previous owner had purchased the ZF transaxle and 1974 Pantera Kit car from Thunder Bolt ( non legitable print ), 2289 County Rd J, minneapolis, MN 55432 , They were a Factory Authorized Dealer for Long and Newman Pantera Replica since 1982.
I found a water stained sales brochure in one of the boxes of parts that came with the Ebay sale.
The project remains unfinished with two Porsche transaxles: a 1980s G50 w/ SBC kennedy Engineered adapter and 2014 Cayman w/ RENEGADE hybrids adapter
Hi. Russel, I am interesting for this car do you know where i can find it.
regards
George