[DeTomaso] More campground cars:

[Mike Drew]

Jan's factory Gr3 race Pantera he found and basically stole in England, which he converted for street use:

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And Kjetil's supercharged 4.6L Pantera:

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And then the phone died....

Last night Charlie and much of the gang hung out in the campsite until the wee hours. We returned for a brief shower around 1 am (no lines) then took Fred and Nancy Phillips to the Arnage corner. We watched racing with them there until 430 am then came back to the tent; they stayed until about 7 then drove to their hotel and collapsed!

We woke up around 9 and spent the rest of the day at the track. 

The fast white Pantera in Plateau 6 pitted partway through its run in the middle of the night last night. and never returned. Broken. Today the silver Pantera limped around and pitted three or four times, never actually completing a lap, then also disappeared, broken. :(

Fun day though. Most people left relatively early in the day and only a handful of us remained to roam the track; I think only we, and Kjetil and Lisa were there at 4 pm when the checkered flag waved. We broke camp quickly (we didn't actually pack, we literally just threw our tent sleeping bags etc in the car and drove off--organization will come later) and Kjetil's truck was still there. 

We drove an hour north to a remote little village where the Brits have a delightful little hotel with only 15 rooms. Most of the Brits took off this morning so many of us from the tour are spending one final night here together.  Kjetil will be here soon too. 

Taking a proper bath was a very good thing indeed. Now heading downstairs for drinks on the patio by the duckpond....

Great times in France. Hats off to Charlie for once again doing a superb job of ensuring we had a great time for the whole week. Actually a mob of young friends from Spain drove up Thursday and camped with us, so he took on a completely new challenge of taking care of them all weekend too!  What a guy....

Mike


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