First, a super thanks to the team, David, Carmen, Gilles, Gaetan and Gaetano for the quick on site thinking and coordinating of, hope to be, “THE NEVER AGAIN EVENT” and the post trauma support by making me laugh it out.

BTW, my over sized chromed half shafts still better be on the car!

I am safe, sound and ready to order parts to fix my Pantera. Color? I am not decided yet but black is on my mind the most, maybe a chromed midnight blue.

Second, here's the story: Picture yourself on an autumn postcard road with a nice straight line going down a valley, your looking ahead, sighing from the oranges, yellows and greens with the bleu cloudless sky, you see a yellow color caused by the color changing leaves not the normal 11 am color.
There is a long distance in front of me, before the next Pantera. Next, we are driving in the bottom of the valley, so I don't see the cars further then Carmen's rear witch is getting closer, who, by now is locking the brakes, you can see the smoke coming up, so I rammed my brake pedal, the car pulled immediately to the right and was already on the side road gravel, at that point the rear caught up to the front (180°) I was not going fast, so I was not scared for my life. But I was pissed, ever so pissed at my lack of control. Then MY Pantera slides sideways into the ditch and slowly toppled over.

Looking ahead of me I saw straw and water, and throw my mirror, oil dripping down from the rear hood, I unhooked my seat belt; man! the Pantera is spacious, upside down you can lie flat on the padded roof! Still pissed, I tried to open the door, my left hand slipped, I smelled the air (because we had just fueled our cars), no gas fumes, ‘good’, tried the door a second time, it open with ease, I came out of my upside down Pantera, just like that, upside down, climbed up the ditch, looked to my right and saw Gilles, Gaetan's friend running towards me. I turned left, threw my sun glassed in the gravel, witch had stayed in place on my face, sat down on the rocks, stood back right up and walked toward Gilles. By then, the rest of the team, caught up a few seconds later, 911 was already called. A few minutes later a fire rescue van was passing by and stopped to help, asking me the first consciousness questions...and then, while I was checked by the medics, David, Carmen, Gaetano, Gilles and Gaetan where making sure the towing driver was doing exactly what they asked.

And finally, two years ago, last July; I joined this forum, after seeing a pic of a Pantera on the internet, and said, hey why haven’t I bought my own yet, so I contacted George Pence who directed me to David and the rest of the group in the neighborhood and I was hooked to this friendship way before I found my Pantera.

You guys are the most supportive group I have ever known and I feel privileged to be part or it.

On some other posts, not P.I., readers might say, “serve's me right”, thinking he didn't handle the situation properly; he should have pulled the hand brake or what ever. But not one person on the P.I. forum said anything negative.

Thank you, Mark, George, Dennis, Michael, Robert, Peter, William, Blaine, Derrick, Brad, Doug, Rapid, DeTom and Harry for the encouragements.

Thanks David for your friendship and support. Thanks Carmen for being a good friend.

I took a hit to my ego and man what a hit, but am alive.

I wasn’t scared for my life,as I know I will not die whilst my friends are with me.

Michel,

Very glad you were unhurt (other than your ego). And also glad that your car suffered so little damage.

I'm sure we all look forward to progress pics of the repair work, and your first drive again once restored!

Michel,

Truely amazing .. you had the angel on your shoulder that day. Sorry I missed meeting you in Kingston .. I thin this was the Black car Mel raved about the beauty of the paint job ?

Ron

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man! the Pantera is spacious, upside down you can lie flat on the padded roof!

That is the quote of the year!

Michel, Glad to hear you are fine and the only long-term effect will be a great story to tell. As stated in this thread your car is beautiful even upside down!

Michel,

This is the first opportunity I have had to see the PI post.

Mark, Andrew and Denis Charon came by yesterday and mentioned you had an incident. As Mark was explaining the incident I felt a cold chill run through my body.

I am so very relieved that you came away from the incident completely unscathed.

Finally, the damage to the car looks and sounds relatively minor. Hey, what do they say ? ... Cats have nine lives !!!

B.G.

Glad to hear that you are OK!! You are lucky that you are in Canada. I hear that you can get the damage fixed up there in a weeks time for under $1000 No problem!

Ron

I am glad to hear you were not hurt! It is really amazing that there wasn't more damage to the car.

Ed...

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...I hear that you can get the damage fixed up there in a weeks time for under $1000 No problem!

Ron

LOL ya r8t! emm! maybe I'll post the bill.