
De Tomaso Pantera Black Minichamps 1:43

Specifications
- Car Brand
- De Tomaso
- Model Manufacturer
- Minichamps
- Scale
- 1:43
- Material
- Diecast
- Model Condition
- Used Model
- SKU
- 400127501
- Year
- 1974
- Era
- 1970s
- Body Type
- Coupé
- Vehicle Class
- Classic Sports
- Openable Parts
- No
- Packaging Condition
- Traces of Storage
- Model Type
- Street Models
- EAN / GTIN
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About the De Tomaso Pantera Black Minichamps 1:43
TL;DR: Minichamps' 1:43 diecast De Tomaso Pantera reproduces the 1974 wedge coupe in black over a sealed zinc alloy body, marking the Italian-American pairing of Ghia styling and Ford V8 power. This is a used model, its box showing traces of storage.
Few 1970s supercars mixed nationalities as directly as the Pantera, and this black diecast keeps its low, angular Ghia-designed shape intact at 1:43.
A Sealed Casting of a Wedge Coupe
The Pantera's flat, angular bodywork suits a sealed one-piece casting, and the model holds the sharp waistline and low nose without any hinge widening the shutlines. Black paint under a display light shows the depth of the finish across the bonnet's long flat surfaces, and the recessed door handles and window trim are picked out with enough separation from the body colour to read clearly at this scale. The Pantera's distinctive rear-mounted engine cover louvres are cast with genuine relief, and the period-correct alloy wheels carry a five-spoke pattern consistent with the mid-1970s specification.
An Unlikely Italian-American Pairing
The De Tomaso Pantera combined Ghia styling and Italian chassis engineering with a Ford V8 engine, sold through Ford's American dealer network for several years, a genuinely unusual arrangement that gave American buyers access to Italian exotic styling with familiar domestic mechanicals. Its mid-engine layout and wedge profile placed it visually alongside contemporaries like the Ferrari 308 and Lamborghini Urraco, despite its very different corporate parentage.
This is a used piece, and its box shows the traces of storage typical of a model kept in a private collection; the casting itself is unaffected. Displayed among other 1970s wedge-shaped exotics, the Pantera's unusual Ford-Italian pedigree gives it a genuine talking point beyond its styling alone.















