[DeTomaso] Top Sports Cars of the 70's

[MikeLDrew at aol.com]

In a message dated 11/4/13 5 22 2, michaelsavga at gmail.com writes:


> 
> Panteras are on the list.
>  http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sports_Car_International_Top_Sports_Cars
> 

>>>That magazine is now sadly defunct, but it had several tangential 
Pantera connections.

The former editor was Jay Lamm; his father is a well-known serial Pantera 
owner named Michael Lamm, who has owned four Panteras over the years.   His 
most recent one was a yellow L-model with a black center stripe; I helped him 
sell it through Claude Dubois to a French client and later saw it at Le 
Mans Classic.   Jay made a name for himself by leaving the editorial chair and 
founding the 24 Hours of Lemons series.   At the last Lemons race at Sears 
Point, I spotted Michael wandering around and spoke with him for awhile.   I 
see him in Monterey each year and he's very easy to spot, as he wears a 
distinctive baseball hat with a blown V8 perched on top of it, about six inches 
tall!

On the website, the car chosen to show what a Pantera is, is an odd yellow 
thing.   But in the magazine, the car they chose was a mint white Pre-L 
owned by PCNC member Paul DaCruz; by coincidence, Paul was the advertising 
director for the Ross family of periodicals, including this magazine.

And finally, I had a couple of articles printed in SCI about eight years 
ago--one was on Le Mans and the other on a rally I took across Europe in my 
GT350 clone.   Sadly, the magazine was chronically underfunded and extremely 
poorly managed and never made a dime; it was a vanity project for the 
publisher, who sadly couldn't be convinced to enter even the 20th century when it 
comes to marketing and advertising, and eventually it folded....

Mike
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