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Fellow Mangusta owners
At our last outing at the Car Club Showcase at the Hilton Head Concours we were approached by the now president of the Pantera Owners Club, Michael Shortt, to become members of this organization which not only supports the DeTomasa Pantera but the other DeTomasa developed cars. I understand that this club which already includes will be further developed to include all the DeTomasa cars and certainly would be very supportive of the Qvale Mangusata. Attached is the email that I received from Mike and encourage you to consider joining this group. We believe that this level of support from a national organization with help the recognition and value of our cars. We will need a minimum of 15 people to join to start our own chapter. Please feel free to write or contact me personally if you have any questions. We welcome your comments.
Harlan Schufeldt
Richmond VA
cell:804-543-4562
Mangusta #102


March 4,2016
Harlan,

I want to form a POCA Chapter esp for Qvale Mangustas, I have already run this past my BOD and we're all excited to welcome you guys into POCA.
You would have your own Chapter, yet be able to play with all the other Chapters for events, shows, etc.
We would provide the Chapter website, Individual member pages, the quarterly Magazine, the monthly newsletter ( in which you would have an article )
It would be like having your own club with an instant 42+ year history.

Dues are $75 per year and the Chapter gets a $25 rebate for POCA for each member, so if you had 30 members, your would each join for 475 and we
would cut the Chapter a check for $750 to fund your events.

The website changes over soon, see the old one here at www.poca.com

lots of changes coming

Here is a list of what you can expect over the next 18 - 36 months, hopefully mush faster, but as I said above, it is all dependent
upon how we fund the expansion. Yes, we could do it all at once, but I feel that would not be responsible of me as a leader, we must
manage our resources well.

Public Access Features

1. Cars for Sale ( Listing Fee to be determined?), 2. Member Parts for Sale. 3.Video Library for Panteras in General, 4. How to Buy a Pantera -
Checklist and Guide, 5. Member Car Showcase ( we shall select from submissions, 10 cars per month from POCA members who submit photos
and a write up (according to the guidelines), A single car may only be shown once in a calendar year. Must be DeTomaso Cars.
6. POCA Hall of Fame, 7. Pantera Museum (History) .

Next up will be Members Only Features ( that will only appear after Members Log in )

8. Newsletter Library, 9. Profiles Library, 10. ALL Ford Tech Manuals, 11. Detomaso DVD ( PDF Pages), 12. Chapter Sites,
13. Individual Member Pages, 14. Detomaso Registry, 15. Member Directory, 16. DIY Repair Videos and Reports.
17. Advertiser's Directory and links, ONLY THOSE who buy Website banner ads are listed here, it is basically a redundant page with copies
of their ads all on a single page, rather than how they will normally be found, rotatiing at random on all the pages.

Speaking of Advertising, we now have new plans and rates for display advertising in the Newsletters, Profiles and on the Website,
you can check those out on the Advertising tab at www.poca.com. If you are a vendor or offer a product or service of interest to
POCA members, I urge you to advertsie with us, grow your business and support POCA's growth.


Let's make this happen.

Michael Shortt

Harlan,
Have you had any responses? Dan hears from Michael regularly too. I'm not sure how many people see the messages here. Perhaps John could send an email out to members? Hope all is well with you guys.

Kate

Kate
good to hear from you, hope you and Dan are doing well
I have joined and Charles (ces150) has also expressed interest
I know John is also interested, I can only think that it is a good thing for the mark and good exposure.
Are you still taking orders for shirts?
Suzi says hi.
Harlan

Hi Harlan,

We are doing great. We've taken several wonderful trips down to the Caribbean and Mexico since we saw you guys and are feeling mighty relaxed for working people! We hope you are doing well too. Tell Suzi I say hi right back. Hopefully we will get a chance to see you guys this year.

I am still able to do the shirts. Just took one in for Amanda to embroider for Charles and another for a man we met at the Amella Island Concours. Price always depends on what they are going for at the store (this past week the $24 golf shirts were on mega sale for $8!). Embroidery runs around $10 for the golf shirt. No availability for sweatshirts here in Florida now!

I had a post for a big POCA event in Savannah at the end of September pop up yesterday. Not sure if Michael told you about it but here is the FB link.
https://m.facebook.com/events/167860980 ... 6221173807

I'm going to put the link on the boards as well.

Kate