- This year's event was greeted with a rare storm on the
eve of the big show. On show-day, the storm had cleared out
and we ended up enjoying a brisk, if not cold, but otherwise
sunny Southern California day.
- Our Pantera census was off by a third over last year's
event but we still had around 40 cars and a nice
representation of muscle cars, hot rods, collector cars and
exotics.
- George Pence and his sister from Pantera International
set up their club store and George emceed the awards
presentation. Thank you George and PI for sponsoring this
event with us.
- This year we had a judging committee headed up by Bill
Harris and his team who had a difficult job of selecting the
winners who are pictured above. Full event coverage will be
in Pantera International with more names and details.
- We served 130 complimentary lunches to our guests. As
last year, we enjoyed a Mexican feast with freshly cooked
chicken, pork and beef with tortillas, beans, rice and
tamales. We can assure you nobdy went home hungry.
- Rick Flores' band, Earthquake provided the tunes, mostly
oldies and hard-driving rock and roll. These guys can really
cook.
- Our Miss Pantera is Casey Dee Thornton, actress and
model who did a great job presenting trophies and posing
with the cars.
- The Best of Show trophy was won by a great looking Group
4 tribute. Sadly, the owner left before trophies were
presented and we don't know his name. His 4-foot trophy sits
unclaimed.
- We certainly had a great time and we enjoyed speaking to
club members, existing and new customers and all DeTomaso
enthusiasts. We had a nice showing of members with their
cars from Team Pantera Orange County. We were somewhat
miffed to hear that one of our competitors was handing out
business cards and promoting his company on our premises,
even to our customers, but, what can we say. Not very classy
but they may need the business and therefore the promotion
on foreign soil. Tacky!
- Thanks a million to all who attended and we look forward
to hosting another event soon.
- Jerry and Dave
- Return home
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