Predicting the changeover in demographics of Pantera owners will improve value

I used to be in the Pantera crowd, celebrating each customized one. It was a car you had to modify because for instance the engine was an off the shelf 351 that was from the Mustang so didn't look equal to exotic engines,and sat in an engine well sprayed with some tar-like gook. But that was 30-40 years ago, I predict that when concours began honoring stock Panteras, the US spec and non US spec (GT5 and GT5S and GT/4) will attract attention and these will be the low cost maintenance collectibles that follow the appreciation curve of the Iso Grifo, a car that never got ,much publicity but are now worth 30 times what they cost new. The new generation of Pantera owners will treat them as foreign exotics and not hot rods. Oh there will be the restomod cars but if they re done right (as in the book Extreme Panteras) they will appreciate too. Plus there's the whole DeTomaso "family" of kin to celebrate including the Vallelunga, the Longchamp, and Deauville and the factory racing cars. The Mangustas are already approaching royal status. the Panteras could get there when the new gen of owners takes over.

Note The pre-L Pantera here has black bumpers, not stock, but easily corrected
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