While De Tomaso built other cars, the one which put it on the map was the Pantera. Production ran from 1971 to 1993. It used ...

Ford's strategy to downsize the Thunderbird ... The result was a sleek, visually pleasing sports car called the Pantera. That supercar power came straight from a 351 Cleveland V8.

as was his first-gen Ford Fiesta, in its own way. The most flamboyant of his creations was the Pantera—Italian for “panther”—which hit the stage in 1971 with great fanfare. It enjoyed a ...

It's going to be a vibrant life, too, courtesy of a 600-horsepower Chevy LS3 V8 swap - Ford V8s powered stock Pantera models - but we're not going to complain about the car's Bowtie engine transplant.

Alejandro De Tomaso’s Ford V8-powered supercar may have lacked the breeding of its Modenese contemporaries from Ferrari, Lamborghini and Maserati, but it never wanted for visual or aural drama.