Panthers (NAC)

["John Hertzman" <johnhertzman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

After various people mentioned the Panther as the Jag replicar made in England
Dean Cains wrote "I'll bet you're thinking of the Panther cars, made somewhere
in Indonesia or Malaysia in the '80's.  They were hand-built "replicas", one
of which was reminiscent of the SS100 Jaguar.  As replicas go, they were
definitely at the high-end, both in price and build quality.  The upholstery
was all Connolly, and the body panels were hand-beaten aluminum."

Discrepancy? Not quite. Panther was peripatetic, like the reincarnation of
Bugatti- a FrancoGerman make revived in Italy, sold to Malaysian investors,
now part of the Volkswagen line in Germany again. Panther went bankrupt in
1979 and was bought by a Korean investor who later sold it to SsangYong which
in turn was absorbed by Daewoo. Over the years the company made a wide variety
of cars, some of them very modern (e.g. a six-wheeler with an eight-liter
twin-turbo Cadillac engine and a dashboard television, and a Ferrari replicar
with Ferrari running gear) but most of them "nostalgia cars", a looser term
than replicar. During the Korean ownership anything of the sort might have
been built anywhere in Asia where labor costs and other conditions were
favorable.

Back to Alfas, anybody?

John
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