[DeTomaso] Who in LA has the back story on this Pantera?
Ken Green
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Sun Jun 14 01:23:35 EDT 2020
I last heard from Art 3 months ago. He is still working sporadically on his Pantera, just a lot of distractions. These were his words:
I haven't skied since 1994! I actually got my fill of skiing but I never got enough of the freestyle skiing aerials that I used to do. I knew about the Olympic training center in Park City, Utah where athletes train by skiing down plastic covered ramps with their skis on and jump into a pool which of course is a softer/safer surface to land on as opposed to snow. The water landing is safer but you can still get hurt doing it. As a fireman I didn't want to risk a serious and possibly career ending injury at the training center so I didn't even consider it until after I retired. In 2011, the first summer after I retired I went out there and gave it a shot and loved it! I've gone back every summer since! I'm doing jumps I never did back in the day due to the risk involved. I've got a good friend in a wheel chair and I know of at least three others that are paralyzed from crashes while jumping way back when. The youtube link will give you an idea of what I've been up to! <grin>
Utah Olympic Park 61 Year OLD Art Stephens Does His First Ever Lay/Full
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On Saturday, June 13, 2020, 5:09:49 PM PDT, Mike Drew via DeTomaso <detomaso at server.detomasolist.com> wrote:
AJ,
Close.
Art was wide awake in broad daylight, zorching through the Nevada desert near the Utah border, trying to go as fast as possible. Hand-held GPS units were brand new and he was already well into the 170s in his car which was the LAST Pre-L model, #4268. (See pics in the registry).
Art didn’t believe in aero, and got a bit of a rush from front-end lift. At the fun rally several people tried to convince him of the need for some sort of air dam but he laughed off the idea. He said he liked the lightness of the steering above 150!
Some short time later he was zooming along, just enjoying himself. He pulled into a convenience store at a crossroads, then set out heading for Utah. There was a pretty stiff crosswind from the left.
He came upon a slight rise in the road, unnoticeable at normal speed but a Big Deal at over 170 mph. Air got under the car and lifted it up and it moved sideways about four feet, putting the right wheels into the dirt shoulder. He tried to correct and the car snapped sideways and flipped onto its roof, skidding along across the road to and off the left side. It then caught dirt and flipped into the air, landing on one rear corner with the nose straight up. It flipped again and landed on the other rear corner, neatly bending the car into a V shape from the doors back, then kept flipping and rolling innumerable times.
He eventually landed on the roof which completely collapsed. He said if he had been wearing harnesses he would have been killed, but because he was only wearing stock belts, he slipped out of the shoulder harness during the wreck and got bent sideways over the center console, then got smashed between the underside of the roof and the console. I think the car ultimately ended up sitting right side up, although several corners of the suspension had been ripped off and flung through the desert.
Meanwhile, a family had seen him leave the convenience store, and followed a few minutes later. Up the road, they started spotting clothes and personal effects scattered all over the road. They slowed down to navigate past all the junk when one spotted wreckage WAY out in the desert. They stopped to investigate and naturally assumed that whoever was inside was dead beyond any doubt. But Art moaned. So they leapt into action and a helicopter was dispatched from Utah. First responders cut him out of the car and he was in shockingly good condition, all things considered. He had broken ribs and a punctured lung from the console, and a few scratches. He flew to the hospital, they patched him up and he was released only a few short days later.
He subsequently bought another Pantera, a red L-Model, and reportedly drove that one much more sedately!
He is a retired Long Beach firefighter, and a hell of a nice guy! Sadly I haven’t seen or heard from him in many years now.
So that’s the story of 4268. I don’t know about the one in the junkyard though. Before my time!
Mike
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> On Jun 13, 2020, at 15:44, Asa Jay Laughton via DeTomaso <detomaso at server.detomasolist.com> wrote:
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> I don't think it's Art's.A I don't believe all the paint would be gone
> by now and that front tire, unless replaced after the wreck is way old.
>
> Art rolled his Pantera at high speed one night after he (believes) he
> fell asleep. This was some 10 years ago?
>
> Someone will link to photos shortly I'm sure.
>
> AsaA Jay
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> On Jun 13, 2020, at 15:21, Charles Engles <[1]cengles at cox.net> wrote:
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> Dear Forest,
> I seem to recall the name, but given the condition of the wreckage
> , it begs the questions of who is Art and what happened?
> Curious, Chuck Engles
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> rest Goodhart
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> I would guess that was Art Stevens car.
> On Saturday, June 13, 2020, 01:56:20 PM PDT, Rob DuMoulin <rob at dumoulins.net
>> wrote:
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> Totaled? Yup.
> [1][2]https://www.automobilemag.com/news/wrecked-exotic-cars-de-tomaso-pan
> tera-exotic-car-wrecking-yard-los-angeles-photos-gallery/
> References
> 1. [3]https://www.automobilemag.com/news/wrecked-exotic-cars-de-tomaso-pantera
> -exotic-car-wrecking-yard-los-angeles-photos-gallery/
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I last heard from Art 3 months ago. He is still working sporadically
on his Pantera, just a lot of distractions. These were his words:
I haven't skied since 1994! I actually got my fill of skiing but I
never got enough of the freestyle skiing aerials that I used to do. I
knew about the Olympic training center in Park City, Utah where
athletes train by skiing down plastic covered ramps with their skis on
and jump into a pool which of course is a softer/safer surface to land
on as opposed to snow. The water landing is safer but you can still get
hurt doing it. As a fireman I didn't want to risk a serious and
possibly career ending injury at the training center so I didn't even
consider it until after I retired. In 2011, the first summer after I
retired I went out there and gave it a shot and loved it! I've gone
back every summer since! I'm doing jumps I never did back in the day
due to the risk involved. I've got a good friend in a wheel chair and I
know of at least three others that are paralyzed from crashes while
jumping way back when. The youtube link will give you an idea of what
I've been up to! <grin>
[1]Utah Olympic Park 61 Year OLD Art Stephens Does His First Ever
Lay/Full
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Utah Olympic Park 61 Year OLD Art Stephens Does His First Ever Lay/Full
On Saturday, June 13, 2020, 5:09:49 PM PDT, Mike Drew via DeTomaso
<detomaso at server.detomasolist.com> wrote:
AJ,
Close.
Art was wide awake in broad daylight, zorching through the Nevada
desert near the Utah border, trying to go as fast as possible.
Hand-held GPS units were brand new and he was already well into the
170s in his car which was the LAST Pre-L model, #4268. (See pics in the
registry).
Art didnat believe in aero, and got a bit of a rush from front-end
lift. At the fun rally several people tried to convince him of the need
for some sort of air dam but he laughed off the idea. He said he liked
the lightness of the steering above 150!
Some short time later he was zooming along, just enjoying himself. He
pulled into a convenience store at a crossroads, then set out heading
for Utah. There was a pretty stiff crosswind from the left.
He came upon a slight rise in the road, unnoticeable at normal speed
but a Big Deal at over 170 mph. Air got under the car and lifted it up
and it moved sideways about four feet, putting the right wheels into
the dirt shoulder. He tried to correct and the car snapped sideways and
flipped onto its roof, skidding along across the road to and off the
left side. It then caught dirt and flipped into the air, landing on one
rear corner with the nose straight up. It flipped again and landed on
the other rear corner, neatly bending the car into a V shape from the
doors back, then kept flipping and rolling innumerable times.
He eventually landed on the roof which completely collapsed. He said if
he had been wearing harnesses he would have been killed, but because he
was only wearing stock belts, he slipped out of the shoulder harness
during the wreck and got bent sideways over the center console, then
got smashed between the underside of the roof and the console. I think
the car ultimately ended up sitting right side up, although several
corners of the suspension had been ripped off and flung through the
desert.
Meanwhile, a family had seen him leave the convenience store, and
followed a few minutes later. Up the road, they started spotting
clothes and personal effects scattered all over the road. They slowed
down to navigate past all the junk when one spotted wreckage WAY out in
the desert. They stopped to investigate and naturally assumed that
whoever was inside was dead beyond any doubt. But Art moaned. So they
leapt into action and a helicopter was dispatched from Utah. First
responders cut him out of the car and he was in shockingly good
condition, all things considered. He had broken ribs and a punctured
lung from the console, and a few scratches. He flew to the hospital,
they patched him up and he was released only a few short days later.
He subsequently bought another Pantera, a red L-Model, and reportedly
drove that one much more sedately!
He is a retired Long Beach firefighter, and a hell of a nice guy! Sadly
I havenat seen or heard from him in many years now.
So thatas the story of 4268. I donat know about the one in the
junkyard though. Before my time!
Mike
Sent from my iPad
> On Jun 13, 2020, at 15:44, Asa Jay Laughton via DeTomaso
<[2]detomaso at server.detomasolist.com> wrote:
>
> i>>? I don't think it's Art's.A I don't believe all the paint would
be gone
> by now and that front tire, unless replaced after the wreck is way
old.
>
> Art rolled his Pantera at high speed one night after he (believes)
he
> fell asleep. This was some 10 years ago?
>
> Someone will link to photos shortly I'm sure.
>
> AsaA Jay
>
> Asa Jay Laughton, W7TSC, MSgt, USAFR, retired
>
> Sent using Jedi Mind Tricks
>
> On Jun 13, 2020, at 15:21, Charles Engles <[1][3]cengles at cox.net>
wrote:
>
> Dear Forest,
> I seem to recall the name, but given the condition of
the wreckage
> , it begs the questions of who is Art and what happened?
> Curious, Chuck Engles
> -----Original Message-----
> From: DeTomaso [mailto:[4]detomaso-bounces at server.detomasolist.com]
On Behalf Of Fo
> rest Goodhart
> Sent: Saturday, June 13, 2020 4:37 PM
> To: P - Mail List; Rob DuMoulin
> Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Who in LA has the back story on this Pantera?
> I would guess that was Art Stevens car.
> On Saturday, June 13, 2020, 01:56:20 PM PDT, Rob DuMoulin
<[5]rob at dumoulins.net
>> wrote:
>
> Totaled? Yup.
>
[1][2][6]https://www.automobilemag.com/news/wrecked-exotic-cars-de-toma
so-pan
> tera-exotic-car-wrecking-yard-los-angeles-photos-gallery/
> References
> 1.
[3][7]https://www.automobilemag.com/news/wrecked-exotic-cars-de-tomaso-
pantera
> -exotic-car-wrecking-yard-los-angeles-photos-gallery/
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