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In a message dated 11/4/13 5 22 2, michaelsavga@gmail.com writes:<BR>
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Panteras are on the list.<BR>
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>>>That magazine is now sadly defunct, but it had several tangential Pantera connections.<BR>
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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!<BR>
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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.<BR>
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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....<BR>
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