Rear Window and Engine Bay Cooling Fan for our Pantera

Kelly and I bought our Pantera (5332) about 3 years ago. Since then we have put about 7,000 miles on her. After the first couple of drives I began to note that there seemed to be a lot of stuff on the engine – sand, leaves, twigs and the like. Then we took a 200 mile drive in some pretty hard rain. Imagine my surprise when I saw what looked like ripple marks on the side of the rocker covers after the car had dried out. Sort of like high water marks. Weird, eh? It was about this time that I began to realize that the design of the back of the Pantera, specifically the “scoop” behind the engine, creates a vacuum. This manages to suck a lot of air through the window behind the engine, and, with the air comes lots of other things, like water, twigs, sand, ¼ inch gravel…

Which made me think – hey, why not put a window in the opening – sure looks like it was made for one. This gallery shows what I did to do just that.