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Yes, the US mags are gr8. Dont know the Auto Week...will look out for it. Also the Hemmings mentioned.....I heard the main guy there died last year...I know the 'normal' one, but not the Sports & Exotics....The other two Brit mags that are up there are: "Classic & Sports Car" and "Throughbred & ClassicCars"....the brits do luv their Classiscs and Pantera's hey..but boy, when do they get a chance to drive them?....its always raining there...most of the time anyway. Here in SA we have + - 300 days of sunshine, no policing of the roads to speak of, no speed traps, and very little traffic on the roads....

Mark, I know this is Pantera territory...but jeeez my friend, wont u post some pics of your very tasty GT 40 we can see on ur avatar. What is it...built in the States? - Looks fantastic indeed. Give us the details...I ran a small, hot 302 motor so I got away with using the modded Audi transaxel which gave me no trouble at all over the years...but i have a very special ZF in the garage waiting to go into my 'Ultimate' Pantera coming up soon.... i am very interested in your GT40, I luv them and was luxcky enough to drive an orginal one here yrears ahgo...awesome...and there are at least 4 companies here in johannesburg building very nice GT 40 recreations as well as the Noble's and the Superformance Daytona coupe in Port Eliabeth which are absolutely increidble 'in the flesh' and to drive....i owned and drove a GT40 as a daily driver (A/C installed of course)for over 6 years,- took it to germany with me for the two years i worked there, brought it back to SA and last year sold it to a kid here who told me later he doubled his money paid to me by taking it to England and selling it there....The dude building my Pantera GRP4 has built 33x GT40's over the years, sold all over the world....he's the one building me the Nomex composite chassis (no metal, no welding, no rust, no metal-fatique)for my Pantera fitted with carbon-fiber body...target weight 1850lbs. The Nomex chassis is +- 200lbs lighter than the metal space-frames he built for the GT40's...
To see/read more about this and a mid-engined Lotus 7 prototype just finished, plus my new fun toy; a '37 Jaguar 'SS' 2-door coupe (the factory didnt make a 2-door, so we welded up the rear doors, cut out 10 inches out back, extended the bonnet (hood) to accomodate the V12 etc.)- its fitted with all Jag XJS V12 running gear, plus other cars like; Jag C-Type, D-Type and Jag-engined replica of the famous 50's Le Mans winner Talbot Lago. Also short video/audio clip of my Pantera having its Weber IDA's tuned with 180 degree exh. Nice sound.

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