[DeTomaso] Horror Stories....Re: Trailering Tiedown Points

Tue Mar 20 14:54:31 EDT 2007

Michael,

I think he taught most here to tie the horse securely to the hitching post.

Larry (wooo) - Cleveland

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Shortt" <michaelsavga at gmail.com>
To: "Peter Kovacs" <peter-kovacs at sbcglobal.net>
Cc: "panteras" <detomaso at realbig.com>
Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2007 12:37 PM
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Horror Stories....Re: Trailering Tiedown Points

> What's the deal with you guys, you park a car and leave it out of gear?
>
> Didn't your gym coach/driving instructor tell you to leave the car in
> gear and aim the wheels towards the curb and to set the aprking brake?
>
> Michael Shortt
>
> On 3/20/07, Peter Kovacs <peter-kovacs at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>> I had a line lock installed by a vendor because my original hand brake 
>> pressed in to the cooling lines when used. The line lock is not reliable 
>> and on more than one occasion the car has rolled from its original 
>> location. I came out of the office one day and my car had reparked itself 
>> against the curb at the other end of the lot. It still had the car cover 
>> on.
>>
>> Peter Kovacs
>> Property Equity & Mortgage Mgmt
>> 209 345-6708
>> 209 523-4919 fx
>>
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----
>> From: Mark McWhinney <msm at portata.com>
>> To: Larry - Ohio Time Corp. <larry at ohiotimecorp.com>; MikeLDrew at aol.com; 
>> teampantera at yahoo.com; davidabell at worldnet.att.net; 
>> mmerritt at eventvehicles.com; detomaso at realbig.com
>> Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2007 10:02:33 AM
>> Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Horror Stories....Re: Trailering Tiedown Points
>>
>>
>> Last year we had a new owner engage a line lock then found his car then 
>> next
>> morning had rolled into the garage door.  Fortunately, there was no real
>> damage.
>>
>> Those line locks are bad juju.  There always seems to be horror stories 
>> with
>> them.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: detomaso-bounces at realbig.com [mailto:detomaso-bounces at realbig.com] 
>> On
>> Behalf Of Larry - Ohio Time Corp.
>> Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2007 10:24 AM
>> To: MikeLDrew at aol.com; teampantera at yahoo.com; 
>> davidabell at worldnet.att.net;
>> mmerritt at eventvehicles.com; detomaso at realbig.com
>> Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Horror Stories....Re: Trailering Tiedown Points
>>
>> Mike
>>
>> When installing a line lock just put the line lock on one line, meaning 
>> you
>> would still have brakes to stop the car from rolling down the drive. 
>> Right?
>>
>> Larry - Cleveland
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: <MikeLDrew at aol.com>
>> To: <teampantera at yahoo.com>; <davidabell at worldnet.att.net>;
>> <mmerritt at eventvehicles.com>; <detomaso at realbig.com>
>> Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2007 10:47 AM
>> Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Horror Stories....Re: Trailering Tiedown Points
>>
>>
>> >
>> > In a message dated 3/20/07 7:34:25, teampantera at yahoo.com writes:
>> >
>> > << Who was the bro' in Norcal who invited an appraisal over to his 
>> > house
>> > to
>> > appraise the value of his absolutly stunning black Pantera when as i
>> > recall
>> > (Mikey should know the twisted details) the guys "hydraulic line-brake"
>> > let go
>> > and he rolled down the driveway and smashed into the appraiser's new
>> > BMW....and
>> > yea, he sold the Pantera too! HAHAHA >>
>> >
>> >>>>Yeah, that was Michael Harper.  He and I had just gone down to LA so 
>> >>>>he
>> > could purchase a BEAUTIFUL Gr4 replica (which was featured in my
>> > first-ever POCA
>> > Profiles, in 1995).  Poor guy was way out of his depth, and simply 
>> > didn't
>> > know how a line lock worked.  He thought it was a parking brake.  So he
>> > backed
>> > the car out of the garage a few days later, flicked the line-lock with 
>> > his
>>
>> > foot
>> > OFF the brake, and started to get out of the car.  The car started
>> > rolling.
>> > He jammed on the brake pedal, but of course the line lock was on, so no
>> > pressure could go past it.  So with his foot pushing the pedal to the
>> > floor, he
>> > rolled down his steeply inclined driveway and smashed right into his
>> > appraiser's
>> > car!!!!
>> >
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