The following is a collection of "what's cool about the de Tomaso Pantera" ideas sent in from Pantera owners: 

• The sleek smooth profile from any angle
• A car that is so low that your view of other cars is at the door handle level
• A car that is so low that it’s almost invisible to other drivers
• It only has two seats and you’re sitting in the left one
• A 351 Cleveland V8 engine that can be as big and bad as you want it to be
• The engine high performance parts can be ordered from Jeg’s
• All five speeds in perfect close ratio
• The gated five speed shifter
• The Pantera sound and the Pantera sound
• The sound of driving at 2000rpm, in any gear
• The Pantera sound setting off car alarms as you pass by
• The Pantera sound causes the floorboards of cars following you to vibrate
• The Pantera radio that is only usable with the engine off
• The 351 Cleveland at 6000 rpm, and you're sitting in front of it
• Merging on the on-ramp with the 351 at 6000 rpm in third gear (That’s 108mph for you non-owners)
• Zero to sixty in 4.5 seconds
• The fading image of a Ferrari in the rearview mirror
• The view from the back, big wheels, A arms, ANSA exhaust and the ZF hanging out
• The coil-over suspension with two A arms
• Power assisted four-wheel disk brakes 
• Manual rack and pinion steering
• Red paint
• People that think it's some type of brand new Italian import
• People that know it’s a de Tomaso Pantera but haven’t seen one in decades (these folks are the best or perhaps they don't get around very much)
• People that don’t have a clue what it is but know it’s got to be something special
• People who think it’s a Ferrari, Lambo or Lotus, before you bring them up to speed
• People hanging around waiting for you to fire it up
• People looking for the rumble before they see it
• Pre-teens riding with their parents, pointing wildly at a prowling cat
• Cars slowing down to grab a look
• Cars speeding up to grab a look and maybe you let them catch up and maybe you don’t
• Cars changing lanes to get a different look
• Guys (or gals) in NSXs, Porsches, Mustangs, Ferraris, etc., doing "double takes"
• Pulling away from a stoplight with no burnout and leaving everyone else behind
• Yellow paint (the best Pantera color is always a big discussion topic among owners)
• If you can turn a wrench you can probably fix most Pantera maintenance problems yourself
• People casually cracking their car windows open to listen to the Pantera sound
• Blowing the doors off the guy (or gal) in the brand-new car that thought he could out run you
• The very finest example of art and machine meant to be driven and enjoyed on a paved surface
• It's Italian, It's Italian, It's Italian