[DeTomaso] Classic Le Mans 2008

Charles McCall charlesmccall at gmail.com
Mon Dec 3 11:21:46 EST 2007


Greetings all,
 
The dates have been announced for the Classic 24 hours of Le Mans for 2008. 
 
The event will be held July 11-13, and details may be found at
http://www.lemansclassic.com/2008/fr/index.html
 
Amaya and I will be attending, and will do something similar to what we did
before regular Le Mans this year - namely spend the week prior to the event
driving around the Loire Valley in France, visiting chateaux and comparing
notes of French wines. It'll be rough. (anyone who didn't receive our
write-up and would like to receive a copy please let me know)
 
Our exact itinerary is still TBD, but we made a short list of chateaux we'd
like to visit. Candidates include, in no particular order whatsoever:
Chenanceau 

Chambord

Amboise

Ussé (nice from outside but empty - photo session if we are in the area?)

Brissac?

Azay-le-Rideau

Clos Luce (da vinci lived here and we can see a Da Vinci museum, among other
things)

The next step will be to plot the chateaux on a map and plan a logical
itinerary. They are all fairly close, and there are some lovely tiny little
roads connecting them. This year we simply plotted our destination in our
trusty GPS and told it to avoid highways... we saw parts of France that the
French don't even know exist! It was great...

Anyway, please consider this an open invitation to tag along. This isn't a
formal meeting of any sort, but instead is an excuse to get your car out
and/or hang out with some nice people. (That's us, in case there was
doubt...) 

More news over the next month or two, but for those considering attending,
pencil the week prior to the event in on your calendar. US-based people may
want to look at airline tix, since they will only go up in price between now
and then. When we have the itinerary, we'll send hotel details to any
interested parties, and then basically see who shows up! (Didn't Las Vegas
start the same sort of way??) 

We'll also decide over the next month or two what the best way is to reserve
tickets and/or camping. I don't expect the same problem with space that we
have with "regular" Le Mans. 

The idea of this e-mail is to communicate the dates so that people can
pencil them in on their calendars. Please feel free to pass this invitation
along to anyone who may be interested.

More news as we figure things out...

Hope to see you there? 

Charles McCall
1985 DeTomaso Pantera GT5-S #9375
"Raising Pantera Awareness across Europe"
http://members.aol.com/PanteraGT5S1985/



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