[Pantera]

I hate to report that between the search for 1st owners of both Motions and then the L-78 Nova and the plemminary work on building a new garage, have taken too much time. I am just now starting to collect all the parts that I need to put it back together. Of course the weather has not been conductive to working on a car. I am going to try to have most of the work done on the car by the time the Power Tour comes through.

I thought that I had bought a set of Alum heads for the 70 and now can't find them or else someone got off with them when I moved to the new house years ago.

I have too much "stuff" hidden away planning to sell them someday. This was my retirement fund and I guess it is time to divest myself of a lot of this stuff.

I finally found the guy that I thought was the first owner. of the orange 69. He did buy one from a dealer in Phily and have Joel do a job on it. It turned out not to be a Baldwin car and in fact was a orange '68. Of course he sold it years ago and has not Idea where it went or to who?

The good news is that I did find the original owner of the '70 BM white/gold car. He was 18 when he got it. I am going to try to have him at SCR8 when the car is ready to show. I am about to go crazy waiting for him to find any old pic of it back then.

I am also trying to get any old pic's from all my old friends from back years ago when I was autocrossing both of them. After a while, I got to be a good enought of a driver that I didn't need their HP to win class. Sometimes I would even win FTD and could just use a stock L-82 off the lot. So they just went downhill sitting, cause I was afraid that someone would steal one of them.

Just today I chased another deadend lead on a orange car only to find it didn't pan out. It was just a Motion car and was not mine for sure. (Wrong headlights) Original owner and he is looking for his old car to try to buy it back.

So I have been busy but not the way I should but that will change now that the weather is better.

I have got to get a 4 post, car lift or two, so that I can get some room to work. I should not have bought the Nova but something like that doesn't come along often and I don't regret buying it.

I will post some pic's once I get to the back of the building and get these cars where I can finally work on them.