For those who haven't yet heard, Mats Gorski, ex-president of the Swedish Pantera Club is 'testing the waters' for an international meeting in Modena, Italy in late Spring of 2009. Long-time Pantera owners may know that the Swedes along with the Brits, Germans and Swiss do this every other year - usually involving renting a Gran Prix track for fun & games and its always very well organized. But 2009 will be special 'cause the factory is in legal receivership (think 'bankruptcy-Italian-style') and no one expects it to exist much past the date of the meeting, including Santiago DeTomaso! So after the date, there literally will be nothing to see and no one to talk to re a DeTomaso factory.
The cost will depend on how many of us put up their hands - in '96 when 180 Americans went over (to join up with 150 Europeans!) the cost was only $250 which included 4 days of hotels, meals and transportation once you were in Italy. Mats thinks the price could be about the same depending on devaluation of the dollar and a host of other long-range guesses.
Y'all IN??
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