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Old 11-19-2013, 02:43 PM
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Default May 13 Feature: Bob Bensons 72 Pantera

This feature represents one of the most unique cars that competed in the 2013 Optima Ultimate Street Car Invitational. We appreciate Bob sharing his car and story with us here on Lateral-G.

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Old 11-19-2013, 04:55 PM
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Nice!

I tried talking my Mom into buy a Pantera when I was a Kid - She bought a Mustang Grande 351 Cleveland Sleeper instead!

T.C.

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Old 11-19-2013, 07:37 PM
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Great to see a Pantera thrashed like you do, Bob.

Nice work on the feature Jody and Sieg.

Great sound with that 180° exhaust.

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Old 11-19-2013, 10:15 PM
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I want thank Skip,Jody and Sieg
for the great feature and fantastic pictures
I have been wanting to do Sema and the Optima
Challenge for many years. It was an Honor to run with
all the great competators and meet a bunch of the Lateral-g
forum in person. I have lurked on the forum for years

On top of that my car was featured in the event.
My Pantera is always driven and as hard as I can
It is very dependable and not a trailer queen
The best part is meeting all the great car people
Its unbelievable the caliber of the cars and drivers
The older I get the faster I was.... Read that on a guys
shirt in Famosa a few years back. Great to see guys like
Brian and Danny driving the wheels off the cars
I even got to spend time with a legend Herb Adams
telling me about his proposals to DeLorean. Good times

My Pantera family also were a great support and I was
glad to show these cars can still run hard. 12th in the stop
box was not bad in this group.

See you guys at Laguna in March hopefully with
my 500 inch 70 TA clone

Thanks again
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Old 11-20-2013, 01:09 PM
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Great feature. Probably my favorite car of the OUSCI this year. Great job Bob and hope to see you at Laguna!
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I am hoping to go to Laguna, Fontana and maybe
Portland for all the west coast events.. might mix
the cars up depending on how the Firebird is running
and how it does on the Track.. It has aways been an
Autocross car... it needs to go on a Diet to shed some
of its weight for the track.. time will tell

Had a great time and hope to do many more

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http://blogs.hotrod.com/sema-2013-cr...#axzz2lJ6LlplW

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Bob

It was great meeting you and talking Panteras and Ponitacs with you.

Most people probably didn't realize that was your first outing on street tires with your Pantera.

Great car. Can't wait to see your Bird.

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Rob,
get going on the Torino.. would love to see
it at at one of the West Coast events

Like I was telling a few we build them to run them
hard.. can't have them just sit around and look pretty

Great meeting you and hope to see you again soon

Panteracer-- Bob
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What an awesome car, congrats on the feature
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