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

[Donny Williams]

Good story!  I like it when they turn out like this... I had 3 cops in town 
one day wanting to look at mine.  One was on a bike and asked if I would 
pull over...I thought Ohh SHIT...It was nothing more then to look at my 
Pantera and admire it.

In your case I bet this Lesbo was just wanting admire your gear 
slot......Hahaha......Oh Nice chrome slot you have on this 
car......Bwhahahahahah!

Thanks for sharing your story it was a good one!

Donny


----- Original Message ----- 
From: <MikeLDrew at aol.com>
To: <DeTomaso at realbig.com>
Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2007 11:20 PM
Subject: [DeTomaso] Fly yellow attracts more than flies....


> 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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