The De Tomaso Pantera was a particular automotive. Debuting in 1971, the unique Pantera had a Ford Cleveland V-8 engine with round 330 horsepower out of the field. De Tomaso would go on to promote greater than 7,000 examples of the Pantera in its 20-year manufacturing run earlier than the corporate folded within the early Nineteen Nineties.

However except you are a scholar of De Tomaso historical past, you’ve got most likely by no means heard of this one. It is a uncommon Pantera 90 Si (sure, identical to the Civic), and solely 38 of them made it to manufacturing within the early 90s simply earlier than the model went underneath.

Photograph by: Jorge Guasso | RM Sotheby’s

The Pantera 90 Si was fully redesigned by Lamborghini legend Marcello Gandini. It featured a extra fashionable Ford 5.0-liter V-8 with digital gas injection and 305 horsepower, a revised suspension with higher dealing with, and larger Brembo brakes for improved stopping energy. Pantera hoped the 90 Si would assist revive the faltering Pantera.

Sadly, although, the corporate solely constructed 41 examples of the Pantera 90 Si earlier than closing up store. Two of these automobiles could be destroyed for crash testing functions, and the remainder have been bought off to a handful of fortunate prospects—none of which have been within the US.

This explicit automotive, although, was imported to the US in 2020, greater than twenty years after its unique supply in Germany. It wears a beautiful Giallo yellow paint with a Nero black inside, and it solely has 11,659 unique miles (or, 18,763 kilometers) on the odometer. It has been not too long ago renovated, and subsequent week, it is heading to public sale on the RM Sotheby’s Miami sale.

Photograph by: Jorge Guasso | RM Sotheby’s

When it was new, the De Tomaso Pantera 90 Si would have value round $80,000 within the US. However given its rarity and up to date renovation, RM Sotheby’s estimates that this automotive might go for wherever from $150,000 to $200,000 when it crosses the block. Better of all, it is being supplied at no reserve.

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Jorge Guasso | RM Sotheby’s