Pic no2.my summer car

**Lou_smorals** · 5th January 2006

Hi again lads
Right, here is my second efford, the bunny rabbit went well, you all can be harsher now LOLOL
This is my Summer car and its NOT A KIT CAR! and my oldest lad getting ready to go out for a run in the sun. I am very proud of both!
thanks
LS

**burner1** · 5th January 2006

That's a great pic mate, love cars and shiny Blue ones at that. Your lad looks like my oldest when it comes to photo's; trying to look 'cool' yet looks more like a Ricky Gervais pose. Tell him not to move his hand next time ;-)

Don't know the make of car, but I installed a network years ago (Early 90's) in a little car company in sussex, they used to hand build cars like that. Very enthusiastic guys they were, loved their job.

**Simate** · 5th January 2006

Nice car. Is it a Morgan?

**Lou_smorals** · 5th January 2006

Hi
thanks M8s, Car is a panther Kallista...son is a Daniel (mrk1) lolol.... both unpredictable but a great laugh.
Panther factory was at BROOKLANDS byfleet surrey, before they moved to harlow.
cheers
LS

**Simate** · 5th January 2006

Oh right, not heard of those (and I thought I knew my cars! lol)

**Lighty** · 5th January 2006

They are a sort of kit car though arent they just built by someone else

As far as I remember they came with a choice of 1.6, 2.8 or 2.9 Ford engines and also they run on mostly ford running gear dont they? So I suppose its an original body/style built on a half decent motor really aint it. Nice example though I must say looks very tidy, a friend of mine used to own a Panther Lima it was a pile of poop but then again it was based on a Vauxhall Viva!!! Nah just kidding it wasn't the best example thats all I'll say.

**Deadly** · 6th January 2006

Nice car, must turn heads when you go about in that in the summer

**Lou_smorals** · 6th January 2006

Originally Posted by Lighty

They are a sort of kit car though arent they just built by someone else

As far as I remember they came with a choice of 1.6, 2.8 or 2.9 Ford engines and also they run on mostly ford running gear dont they? So I suppose its an original body/style built on a half decent motor really aint it. Nice example though I must say looks very tidy, a friend of mine used to own a Panther Lima it was a pile of poop but then again it was based on a Vauxhall Viva!!! Nah just kidding it wasn't the best example thats all I'll say.

Hi
oh no ....I don't believe you said that, Panther were not kit cars, they were never sold in kit form and submitted cars to be crash tested etc. meeting all criteria to be a PRODUCTION CAR

The Lima was, in my opinion, a far inferior car to the Kallista being Vauxhall magnum based and made of fibreglass.
My Kallista, like all of this model, were manufactured from Aluminium and were based on Ford running gear - very similar in engine/running gear to the Capri, being rear wheel drive and mental in the wet.
the biggest difference being my model which although rear wheel drive has an XR2 1600 engine converted to rear wheel. Panther rated the CVH engine much higher than the one capri's had.
cheers
LS