[DeTomaso] Wall Street Journal Pantera Mention

[Charles Engles]

Dear Michael,

             I have already contacted him and recommended the nearby POCA chapters as well as joining POCA.   I also recommended the Pantera Rally.  He graciously said that he would look up POCA and become a member!   

                             Warmest regards,  Chuck Engles

PS:  I would point out the Dr. Wilkes' Pantera is the *second* Pantera featured in the weekly WSJ column by A.J. Baime: My Ride.    It is remarkable to me that when I think about it, the WSJ has mentioned and/or featured the Pantera three times in the last year or two, which is something of a record for the Pantera in any national newspaper.   For the record:  Scott Black and David Wilkes' Panteras were featured in My Ride and the Pantera of PCNC member Tony Blevins was mentioned in a long article about him.    Who knew that the WSJ was such a gearhead publication??






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Subject: [DeTomaso] Wall Street Journal Pantera Mention

I don't have a subscription so I can't read the article but they talk to the dean of the University of Virginia School of Medicine and his Pantera (probably).

"Dr. David S. Wilkes of Charlottesville, Va., 63, dean of the University of Virginia School of Medicine, on his 1972 De Tomaso Pantera, as told to A.J. Baime.

Ten years ago, I was away on business. I came home and there was this car, sitting in my garagea complete surprise. It was my dream car. It was one of those surreal moments. I cannot explain the feeling, even today."

https://www.wsj.com/articles/most-people-forgot-this-car-but-he-never-did-11583245380


   --michael cox