| Author | Message | ||
| Vince (Manatee)
Member Username: Manatee Post Number: 465 Registered: 6-2002 |
Mike, it's very helpful caravanning info  I wish other caravans were as well run and organized. | ||
| Mike Dailey (Mike_dailey)
New member Username: Mike_dailey Post Number: 11 Registered: 1-2002 |
I�ve added a some ideas about automotive caravanning to the webpage http://www.panteraplace.com/page169.htm I hope you all find it helpful. Mike | ||
| Vince (Manatee)
Member Username: Manatee Post Number: 374 Registered: 6-2002 |
Thanks, Mike. Very nice pictures. 135 cars was quite the turnout. You might need to find a larger venue for next year. | ||
| Mike Dailey (Mike_dailey)
New member Username: Mike_dailey Post Number: 10 Registered: 1-2002 |
I�ve updated the ICD page with new photos and information at http://www.panteraplace.com/ Mike | ||
| Greg Rodgers (Joechristmas)
Member Username: Joechristmas Post Number: 818 Registered: 3-2001 |
Yes I like the car. Can't really buy another car right now. I just bought another one in June. It is nice. I was looking at TRs (80s) but I don't fit in them at all. It is way too tight in there for me. Thanks. | ||
| Mitchel DeFrancis (4re308)
Intermediate Member Username: 4re308 Post Number: 1091 Registered: 6-2001 |
The blue 348 owners name is Todd Reed, a super nice guy. He is selling to get a 360 coupe. The car is in excellent shape. Greg, if you need more info let me know, I am helping him sell the car. | ||
| Greg Rodgers (Joechristmas)
Member Username: Joechristmas Post Number: 817 Registered: 3-2001 |
Whos blue 348 is that, it was forsale at ICD? | ||
| Greg Rodgers (Joechristmas)
Member Username: Joechristmas Post Number: 814 Registered: 3-2001 |
It was a great show. Everytime they called a # in the raffle Barb had the matching ticket. Mitchell shoot me an email sometime about your trip to Chattanooga. | ||
| Vince (Manatee)
Member Username: Manatee Post Number: 345 Registered: 6-2002 |
Mike, I was in the Titanium (silver blue) Ferrari that passed your caravan and then kind of stayed ahead a little ways. I sent you a PM. Vince | ||
| Mike Dailey (Mike_dailey)
New member Username: Mike_dailey Post Number: 9 Registered: 1-2002 |
Vince, I didn�t get all of the names of the people in the caravan. Were you in the black Ferrari? We had a Ferrari, a Maserati, and one Alfa in the string of Italian cars. Mike | ||
| Mike Dailey (Mike_dailey)
New member Username: Mike_dailey Post Number: 8 Registered: 1-2002 |
I�ve started the construction of the 2003 Atlanta Italian Car Day webpage for Pantera Place and it can be viewed at http://www.panteraplace.com/page166.htm The show was fantastic with the largest attendance of Italian cars to date. The weather was prefect and I�m sure that added to the large turnout. The page is a work in progress and I�ll be adding information and images for the all the marques soon. Vince, thanks for the positive comment about our de Tomaso caravan. I�m the caravan organizer and was in the lead scarlet red de Tomaso Pantera. You must have been in the silver blue Ferrari that we saw along the route. We�ve been doing the caravan to the show for three years now and it is a lot of fun. I�m sorry that you had parking problems. They did have parking available for cars that did not want to register for the show in another parking area that was safe for exotics. It was the area where the car photos were taken and there was a photographer (Ferrari owner) in the lot throughout the show time. Mike | ||
| Mike Charness (Mcharness)
Intermediate Member Username: Mcharness Post Number: 1081 Registered: 8-2002 |
I didn't make the long trip from Huntsville after all. How was the turn out? Reports, pictures...? | ||
| Vince (Manatee)
Member Username: Manatee Post Number: 343 Registered: 6-2002 |
I got there early and turned around. I couldn't stay the whole day and they didn't have provisions for short-time folks like me except to park on the street. Maybe next time. The Pantera caravan was probably one of the best handled caravans I have seen in a long time. They can be proud. Should teach some othe folks how to caravan properly. | ||
| Jeffrey Davison (Jeffdavison)
Junior Member Username: Jeffdavison Post Number: 219 Registered: 7-2002 |
GET THERE EARLY!!!!!! No reserved spots Parking will be first come first serve so marques may not be parked together. Limited parking in the main lot will fill fast We have an overflow lot for the straglers. IT WILL BE A FANTASTIC DAY!!!!!! GET THERE EARLY !!! Best spots should be available from 9:00 - 10:00 Jeff Davison | ||
| Mitchel DeFrancis (4re308)
Intermediate Member Username: 4re308 Post Number: 1071 Registered: 6-2001 |
The weather is going to be gorgeous! | ||
| Terry Springer (Tspringer)
Member Username: Tspringer Post Number: 814 Registered: 4-2002 |
It looks like I'll be at Italian Car Day after all. The Aces symposium and dinner is friday night, so IM in luck! Ive met Gunther Rall before, even got to speak with him one on one for about 30 minutes. We were at the Smithsonians Garber facility in DC viewing the restoration shops. We were due to see Rall and some other Eagles speak that evening. Turns out he was also touring Garber and we bumped into him... I was floored. We were watching a Hurricane being worked on and he starts telling me stories about different encounters and Hurricanes he shot down during the war. When he had to excuse himself, we shook hands. Something was funny feeling... I looked down to see he is missing 2/3 of his thumb. He tells me it was shot off by a .50 cal round that hit him as he was bailing out of his ME-109 having been shot down by a P47. He was also burned as the plane exploded under him. He says it saved his life because the thumb got infected and he spent the last 6 months of the war in a hospital. If he had remained on flight status during that time it extremely unlikely he would have lived. During that period his unit suffered 120% casualties. Anyhow.... Amazing pilots. I cant wait to meet Bud Anderson. His book "To Fly and Fight" is probably the best autobiography of a WWII fighter pilot I have ever read. Terry | ||
| Mike Charness (Mcharness)
Intermediate Member Username: Mcharness Post Number: 1059 Registered: 8-2002 |
Presuming weather isn't a problem, I expect we'll have at least a 308QV and a 328 coming from Huntsville. | ||
| Richard Gilmore (Astuteinv)
New member Username: Astuteinv Post Number: 13 Registered: 1-2003 |
Hey Everybody, Still looking for another F-car since I sold my Dino. I am looking at an '84 Boxer in Jax, a '74 246GTS in Chicago and 355's all over. Picky Picky Picky. Any how - hope to see you at the show Terry, I saw Gunther Rall, Chuck Yeager and 12 other "Eagles" at the Air Command and Staff College graduation 14 years ago. What a treat! | ||
| Mitchel DeFrancis (4re308)
Intermediate Member Username: 4re308 Post Number: 1068 Registered: 6-2001 |
Yeaaa! I will be there! | ||
| Terry Springer (Tspringer)
Member Username: Tspringer Post Number: 812 Registered: 4-2002 |
Grrrrrrrrrrr dunno if Ill make it or not. A new fly-in community in Clayton is having a grand opening event and dinner. My father got us tickets. Bud Anderson, Chuck Yeager, Gunther Rall, Robin Olds will all be there speaking and signing autographs. Rall is the highest scoring ace still alive, 275 confirmed air to air victories. Yeager and Anderson both flew P51s with the 357th Fighter Group... Anderson a 16 victory ace. Robin olds was not only a P51 ace but also flew F105s in Vietnam. A steller group of heros to meet and hear old war stories from! | ||
| Jeffrey Davison (Jeffdavison)
Junior Member Username: Jeffdavison Post Number: 217 Registered: 7-2002 |
It's getting close, so start detailing your cars. We've got to get our cars out there, word is it that there'll be 25+ Panteras there again this year and we cant have more of them than more of us! Jeff Davison | ||
| Jeffrey Davison (Jeffdavison)
Junior Member Username: Jeffdavison Post Number: 202 Registered: 7-2002 |
Just bringing this notice to the top as this is the next (and best) major show in our area. Jeff Davison | ||
| Jeffrey Davison (Jeffdavison)
Junior Member Username: Jeffdavison Post Number: 183 Registered: 7-2002 |
Atlanta's 7th Annual Italian Car Day! Date: Saturday, Oct. 4th, 2003, 10 AM to 3 PM. Registration fee $20/car (includes one free lunch). Extra lunches available. All registration is at the door like last year: Place: Buford Dam Park, just 1 mile east of the Buford Dam power generating station off Buford Dam Road. The event site is in north Atlanta on the southern edge of Lake Lanier. On the map it is between the small towns of Cumming and Buford, close to Georgia Highway #20. From GA Highway 20 turn north on to Suwanee Dam Road at the Publix Shopping Center. Take Suwanee Dam Road 3 miles to stop sign. Turn left on to Buford Dam Road, Buford Dam Park is 1 mile on the right just east of the dam. This venue for Italian Car Day is the same as last year, on the opposite (east) side of the Dam near the Corps Office entrance. The show officially starts at 10 AM. We would ask you to have all cars & bikes parked & settled in no later than 11 AM so everyone can enjoy the show. First come, first served at registration and on the field. Please note: NO ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES are permitted in the park. NO PETS (Prancing horses & Raging bulls welcome!) EACH REGISTRATION INCLUDES: DASH INFO DISPLAY CARD (numbered for voting) ONE TICKET FOR HOT LUNCH / DESSERT / DRINK ONE OFFICIAL VOTING BALLOT ONE RAFFLE TICKET for door prizes donated by vendors. SPONSOR GOODIE BAG The registered vehicle is eligible for an "Owner's Choice" Trophy for their registered marque class and also the coveted "Best of Show" award. Italian Motorcycles have their own class(s) this year. Extra lunches are available for others in your party purchased at the door. Extra raffle tickets will be sold at the event for $1 each. All visitors may buy raffle tickets. New sponsors are welcome. Information with a directional map is at: http://www.panteraplace.com Let us know you intend to display your Italian car this year! Sign up your car on the pre-registration form at: http://www.panteraplace.com See you this fall, John Montgomery-Coordinator [email protected] Fiat Lancia Unlimited Club www.flu.org Cell 864-304-6537 |