[DeTomaso] Tjaarda Pantera at the Seattle Italian Concours d'Elegance

Sun Sep 6 22:21:57 EDT 2009

Mike

Thanks for the report, nice to know that we were represented in that corner
of the country.

I have a complaint however, you refer to the Pantera at 49.5 being "high"
and trip over yourself
about Ferrari prices. Good grief man, pick a side.  One of the biggest
problems is "US".
Until we all agree what great cars we have and acknowledge the super value
that they represent at anything under 100K
compared to other contemporary cars of the era, ( 246 Dino, 365 GTS/GTB
Daytona, Muira, Ghibili, (SP) etc.)
How do we expect others to realize the value.

Nothing personal, but I'm just sick of price lowering among our own ranks,
we should be high balling if anything.

Michael Shortt

On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 9:06 PM, Mike Thomas <mbefthomas at comcast.net> wrote:

> We were very pleased to have the Tom Tjaarda Pantera, the orange car with
> the silver front/rear facias which has been seen recently at Monterey,
> sitting amongst the members of Panteras Northwest at today's Italian
> Concours d'Elegance in Seattle.  Bruce Wanta, the current owner, and an
> avid
> car enthusiast, took Best in Class for DeTomaso with the car.
>
> It has been in the care of Park Place Motors of Bellevue, WA recently,
> where
> we at Panteras Northwest were glad to assist Mr. Wanta and Park Place in
> hooking up with Kirk Evans on a set of dropped floor pans and a flat
> firewall kit.  Bruce is a rather tall individual and was considering having
> to remove the beautiful custom seats, in which Tom Tjaarda had his
> signature
> embroidered, to place pads on the floor and firewall just to enjoy the car.
> The new firewall kit was custom upholstered to match the dark gray with
> orange stitching in the rest of the car, and it all looks very nice.
>
> Panteras northwest had only two cars at the show, myself and Chris Kimball.
> We took second and third, respectively, to Mr. Wanta's car.  It was
> interesting, however that still another Pantera was on the grounds.  Park
> Place always has a display with a couple of their current For Sale cars:
> one
> happened to be a beautiful red '72 in very stock original condition for
> which they are asking $49.5K, a bit over market, but this is a really nice
> car with 10" Campys on the rear, low mileage and a long Northwest history.
>
> The attendance was down at the show in general as they had only the third
> rainout in 22 years, and I'm talking wrath of God type rain: it was a
> monsoon for about two hours, and off and on for the rest of the day.
>  Still,
> we had 92 cars present from all makes Italian, down from the record 144 of
> last year.  The feature this year was competition cars, which included one
> of the very rare Lamborghini Diablo GTRs, a 1962 Alfa Zagato Competitione,
> a
> 1971 Alfa coupe, and, courtesy of Mr. John Shirley, THE very first Ferrari
> Testa Rossa, the prototype, in absolutely stunning condition.  However, the
> real star of the show, and overall winner, was a 1948 Ferrari 166, the
> second car ever built by Ferrari and the oldest numbers matching Ferrari in
> existence, having the very first engine block ever cast by Ferrari in 1946,
> and it sounded incredible as they backed it out of the trailer between rain
> storms.  An amazing car, it has been in the same family for 45 years,
> having
> been purchased by the owner's father in 1964 for a mere $3,800 (no, I'm not
> missing any zero's), but one could only guess at it's value today.  With
> the
> recent auction record set by a 1961 Ferrari California Spyder at (I
> believe)
> $11.5M, one can be sure this car could go well past that.
>
> Despite the rain, it was still great to be out with so many beautiful
> Italian bodies.  If you are ever in the Seattle area over the Labor Day
> weekend, it's a must see.
>
> Thanks.  I'll have pics out to the POCA website soon, and you should be
> able
> to see this years' show results in a week or so at www.italianconcours.org
> .
>
> Mike Thomas
> Panteras Northwest
>
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