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i was wondering how many of us are not THAT surprized to see on on the road as i did last weekend ... who has a neighbour with one or see often a close buy living companion ?
Or are we all that spreaded and lonely ?
Gatherings don't count here, we have seen a hundred at Spa-Italia but never in daily traffic ...
Wonder if small towns have enough crazy people to have more then 1 Pantera Smiler
who knows who ?
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We are 10 cars in the city.(3 of them are not driven) I can say it was a nice surprise when I crossed Jonathan on the divided highway last summer or when I met (new) Joe unexpectedly at an outdoor show. Other surprise was 3 years ago when Mike came to my neighbour's house with his as he rarely takes his out.
Believe it or not, within a carefully placed circle of about 25 miles radius, here in the rust belt state of New Hampshire (including a bit of nearby Massachusetts and Maine), there are about 14 Panteras that I have actually seen, and a few more rumored to exist that I haven't seen.

Of these, at last count, I think maybe six are roadworthy.

Excepting times a couple of us have set out together, only once did I catch another Pantera out on it's own. I was taking the scenic route home down Ocean Boulevard after a car show in Rye, NH. I flicked on my directional, checked my mirror to execute the turn towards home and right behind me was another P-car.

He tootled and continued on straight, and I thought, darn, now I'll never figure who it was.

Couple weeks later I brought the Pantera to the NHMS for a HPDE day. While I was waiting to get registered a fellow walked up and asked if I may have been down on the beach earlier. And so I met Hugh, owner of a red '72.

Haven't seen him or the car since.
There are 22 Belgian Pantera's I know of (the cars, not all of the owners). On February 23 I spotted a yellow one close to where I live, one I did not know of yet, but by the time I got home, I forgot its license plate (I was out for a bicycle training). This was only the second time in my life I saw one "in the wild". Two years ago I got passed by an SI on a highway close to Antwerp.

Closest to me I know of, is Suburb (half an hour from my place), and the previous owner of mine does have two, and lives about 40 minutes from my place. Other than these two, I'm not aware of any owner living close by.
We are pretty lucky here in Tucson.... although the Phoenix area is even more heavily populated with P-Cars....

We have me, Wade, Jim, Rick, Dave G., Andy, Sean, Dale, Steve and Tom B. that get together for events.

We have ~7 cars that get out (one is track only).

I know of 6 more cars in the area that have not been seen for a while, but we are working on those guys. One car is reported to be the Pink Playboy Pantera! If true, it would require a shake-up in the Provamo registry!

Unfortunately, Liv is no longer driving it.



Rocky

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