[DeTomaso] Fly yellow attracts more than flies....

[Asa Jay Laughton]

Judicious use of the Jedi Mind Trick once again.  Except this time, it 
was with HIS Pantera.

:)

Asa Jay

Asa Jay Laughton, MSgt, USAFR, Retired

& Shelley Marie
Spokane, WA

1973 Pantera L 5533
[ASASCAT]
    
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MikeLDrew at aol.com wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> So, I went zipping around town in the Pantera today; I'm having carpets made 
> for it next week and I wanted to swing by the upholstery shop (just a mile 
> from my house) to show it to the guy just so he knows exactly what to expect.  I 
> also had dropped a box full of 351C parts for Longchamp Phil in London at the 
> Fed Ex office this morning, and then another widget showed up for him when I 
> got home, so I needed to intercept the box and stick it inside before the Fed 
> Ex international pickup in the afternoon.
>
> Upon leaving the upholstery shop, I just had to jump on the freeway and go up 
> to the next exit to get to the Fed Ex shop.  The on-ramp is only about two 
> months old, and is a beautiful piece of highway engineering.  It's about three 
> or four car-widths wide, banked, and increasing radius.  In any of my other 
> cars (particularly my Scirocco), I take it WFO and sliding, but I freely admit I 
> don't know how to drive a Pantera properly, so circumspection was the order of 
> the day.  The weather was beautiful, there was nobody around, so I just sort 
> of ambled onto the freeway, clicked it into 5th gear and cruised in the slow 
> lane.
>
> Nearing the exit I glanced in the mirror and saw an all-white Ford Crown Vic 
> hauling ass, and just then, the red and blue lights in the grille started 
> flashing.  I thought it was rather odd that a CHP cruiser would be going so fast 
> in the slow lane, when there was no other traffic in the other two lanes....
>
> ....ah yes, well, that would be because of me then, I suppose.  As I took the 
> off-ramp I just pulled over and stopped, and the CHP car was right there 
> behind me.
>
> Hmm.  I didn't feel like I was doing anything particularly rambunctious, 
> particularly under the circumstances of a wide-open road with perfect weather 
> etc.?  Normally I'd be going a lot faster.
>
> I shut the motor down and waited for the cop to appear, but he went to the 
> passenger side and of course the window was up.  So I had to turn the key on to 
> lower the window.  Expecting to see a dude, instead I was confronted with an 
> ultra-butch lesbian CHP officer with the biggest grin you ever saw, who said, 
> "HI!  What kind of CAR is this?"
>
> Hmm.  This isn't sounding so bad....
>
> "Oh, I'm not going to give you a ticket or anything.  Although I did clock 
> you at 80 mph back there--actually 82 mph.  But the road was wide open with 
> nobody around, so that's fine.  Did you just drive it here from Oklahoma?"
>
> I explained that I was in the Air Force, hence the out-of-state plates, and 
> hoped not to get any grief about it.
>
> Then she said, "Tell me about this car?"
>
> I love it when that happens. :>)
>
> So what followed was a ten-minute dissertation on Pantera history, as well as 
> my own history with the car.  She told me that even though she wasn't going 
> to write a ticket, she had to run my license and registration just because that 
> was standard procedure whenever they did a stop.  
>
> Since the carpets are going in next week, I've pulled all the interior out 
> including the passenger seat.  I leaned over to open the glovebox, and just as I 
> did so, I remembered that because of the need to access the area behind the 
> dash to hook up the A/C and heater hoses in the next few weeks, I hadn't 
> bothered attaching the hinges of the glovebox lid, and the glovebox was only secured 
> by the latch that I had just unsecured.  So with that, the lid came off in my 
> hand, and a whole bunch of fuses and a flashlight and a bunch of other stuff 
> cascaded onto the bare floors and bounced around....
>
> ...and no registration.  Insurance yes, but where did my registration 
> paperwork go?
>
> "Oh, that's okay, that's good enough..." and off she went.
>
> A few minutes later, with a friendly beep of the Fiamm air horns, I was on my 
> way again....:>)
>
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