De Tomaso Pantera sold through Ford (1971-75)
Value: $42,000 - $65,000
The hot-looking rear-engined Pantera was sold at Lincoln-Mercury dealers, a rather incongruous retailing channel for a car like this. With its Ford engine, the Pantera was supposed to be easier to maintain than something with a finicky Italian engine. Alas, keeping a Pantera running wasn't so easy after all. Despite impressive performance numbers, dependability problems and a generally poor early `70s market for performance cars -- including gas price spikes and rising insurance costs -- kept sales low.
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