Panther Westwinds

Panther Westwinds, usually called simply Panther, was a small British maker of niche sports and luxury cars based in Surrey, England, active from 1972 to 1990. Robert Jankel founded it to build retro-styled cars on the mechanical parts of ordinary production models, among them the J72, the De Ville and the Lima. The firm failed in 1980 and was bought by the Korean businessman Young Kim, whose Jindo group financed the Ford-based Kallista and the mid-engined Solo. Jindo sold its interest to the South Korean maker SsangYong in July 1987, and SsangYong ended Kallista production at Harlow and Solo production in 1990, which closed the original company. Its name is now held within the history of KG Mobility, the later owner of SsangYong.