PANTERA EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT: Track Day at Inde Motorsports Ranch (Wilcox, Arizona) - 8 May 2021

SUGGESTED ITINERARY & LODGING INFORMATION:

Arrive on Friday afternoon (7 May, 2021) - check into the hotel (See Hotel info below)

On Friday Afternoon / Evening Jim Fusco (AZ POCA) will host a "Get Together" at his house. It may be a potluck, or we may request a small donation for food - This is still TBD.

Arrive at the Race Track at 7 AM on Saturday, 8 May for an awesome day on the exhilarating course!!!!

* You will need to have a certified helmet & your car will go through a basic safety check - mainly to make sure you don't have bad leaks. We will provide more details regarding vehicle & safety requirements, but they will be minimal & reasonable.

Saturday NIGHT after we all get back from the Race Track and clean up, we have a connection with the best BBQ Restaurant in town. We can all Eat - Drink - and BRAG about how great we thought we were - LOL!

Relax & Sleep at the Hotel on Saturday Night - and all drive back together on Sunday morning.

Additional Details on Lodging:

The Holiday Inn Express has a block of 15 rooms reserved for the POCA group at a great discount.

Ten rooms are double queen size beds and the other five are single king size beds. There is also a breakfast that is provided at this hotel.

The discount code is "Pantera Owners Club Block". The rates are $78.00 per room and that is with the tax included.

HOTEL (Arrive Friday May 7th - Leave Sunday May 9th)

Holiday Inn Express (Clean & Nice)

1251 N. Virginia Ave.

Wilcox, AZ 85643

520-384-3333

Here is the link to the track event sign up:

https://www.trackrabbit.com/ev...Track-Day-2021-05-08

Let's make this happen!

TTT - To The Top!

The event is still on! Anyone in the area is certainly welcome to join us for an exciting  and safe event!

Please consider it!

Chuck /Rocky

Getting ready - we have about 15 cars attending.  

Should be a blast.  

Watch this space for the “after action” report!

Pantera Traffic Jam!!!

Great turnout for the “Pre-Event”!

Track day tomorrow!

Have a great day, take plenty of photos!

We are doing so as we speak.

This is a great event.  The Round Table Pizza car is in a class of its own!

Chuck

First Picture...

More to follow...

Here's a great shot....  All the Panteras are clustered in the center....

Looking fwd to some photos. I remember "Pizza Pete" Braillier running the Round Table Pizza Pantera at tracks all over CA back in the early '80s. Good that the present owner hasn't forgotten what it was built for!

Here's a shot of the Panteras and Tony's C8.

John

Lovely seeing all those Panteras in the sun. Hope you all had fun. Awaiting more photos of every Pantera.  Keep up the great work everyone. Thank you Rocky and everyone at the Arizona Pantera Owners Club of America 🎩🎩👏

Here’s a nice picture of mine!

Special bonus:  Rich’s Pizza Car, at rest, and at speed!

Nice colors!

Excuse my ignorance, but why does yours have the smaller tail-lights lights? 

I am liking the smaller tail-lights more than the larger ones.

Actually, all Pantera tail lights occupy the same footprint.

The green car has the OEM Ford tail lights which do not have any amber sections. They were prohibited in the USA at that time. The European version of that tail light did incorporate an amber turn signal section and many owners have replaced their stock lenses with the European version. That style of tail light was originally used on the Alfa Romeo 2000 built between 1967 and 1971.

The yellow car is using a different style of  tail light which uses a different lens and a different housing. It was never used on the Ford cars but was installed at the factory on some of the later cars. That style of tail light was used on the Alfa Romeo 1750 built during the same period. It is often referred to as the GRP4 tail light.

Larry

@lf-tp2511 posted:

Actually, all Pantera tail lights occupy the same footprint.

The green car has the OEM Ford tail lights which do not have any amber sections. They were prohibited in the USA at that time. The European version of that tail light did incorporate an amber turn signal section and many owners have replaced their stock lenses with the European version. That style of tail light was originally used on the Alfa Romeo 2000 built between 1967 and 1971.

The yellow car is using a different style of  tail light which uses a different lens and a different housing. It was never used on the Ford cars but was installed at the factory on some of the later cars. That style of tail light was used on the Alfa Romeo 1750 built during the same period. It is often referred to as the GRP4 tail light.

Larry

Thank you for the clarification Larry.
Was is it because Italians often used what was available on the shelf at the time or was it a revised design that did not last long and was not used on many Panteras I wonder..

Larry can answer your second question...   he’s got the inside scoop!

Actually if you want a set of the Group 4 lights, he is a good person to talk with!

He supplied the taillights (lenses & buckets) on my yellow car...

Rocky

@rocky posted:

Here’s a nice picture of mine!

Special bonus:  Rich’s Pizza Car, at rest, and at speed!

Intersting,

when looking at Panteras parked or even on the road, I see the lines and curves of the body design.

Put that same Pantera on a track and its like I have x-ray vision,   I see the frame, suspension and a massive power plant under the driver's right arm

MORE PICS PLEASE

One more...  but not on the track....

Another cool car....

@lf-tp2511 posted:

Actually, all Pantera tail lights occupy the same footprint.

That style of tail light was originally used on the Alfa Romeo 2000 built between 1967 and 1971

The yellow car is using a different style of  tail light which uses a different lens and a different housing. It was never used on the Ford cars but was installed at the factory on some of the later cars. That style of tail light was used on the Alfa Romeo 1750 built during the same period. It is often referred to as the GRP4 tail light.

Larry

and pre Ford Pushbuttons use also those taillights ?

Simon

Bora

Kamsin

All Panteras, push buttons included, used only those two styles of tail lights. I’ve never read anything on the reason for the introduction of the second design during later production.

small volume coach builders very often source some of the components for their new models from previous vehicles.

The Ford style tail lights, remember these were originally from an Alfa Romeo, were used on the Maserati bora and the Maserati Kamsin and the short-lived Bricklin.

The windshield wiper assembly used on our cars was originally installed on jaguars, and our steering column was sourced from the early Ford capri.

And of course our Girling brakes are certainly not sourced from Italy😁😁

Larry

@rocky posted:

Nice colors!

This was the largest gathering of Panteras in the history of Willcox!

Let's not forget our Inde Motorsports Ranch driving instructors. Jake Powell (on left) and Adam Powell (on right). They kept us safe on the track all day and did an excellent job of instructing.