[DeTomaso] Driving Gloves

[adin at frontier.net]

What do you know?  The only gloves I've seen on you are the mittens to  
keep you from diddling yourself!

David, still have mine!






Quoting Mad Dog Antenucci <teampantera at yahoo.com>:

> You mean those gay thin calfskin gloves with the  little boy-racer   
> holes in them?  I never heard of them! ;-]>
>
>   You either need to sell your Pantera, have surgery to remove your   
> sweaty glands or start working out  so your hands don't slip on the   
> steering wheel..... or my personal best advise is buying the   
> Precision ProFormance  quick-release hub and MOMO steering wheel   
> that is covered in black suede (yea, also gay) but it feels   
> excellent and at the end of the day you can take it in the house and  
>  practice your GRIP strength! ;-]>
>
>   Mad Dawg Antenucci
>   Team Pantera Racing
>   "If it was easy you'd do it"
>   www.teampanteraracing.com
>
>
>
>
> Trevor Fougere <trevor at fougere.com> wrote:
>   Having gone through my own 11 months of new owner hell...fixing everything
> in site...I finally have the car at a point where it is truly
> driveable...God it feels good to be able to trust the car!!!!
>
> So...I took off at the crack of dawn yesterday and had a wonderful 250 miles
> round trip down to Watsonville and back...down via 35 and 9 on the peninsula
> and back via the Pacific Coast Highway...really nice...light traffic in both
> directions...got to boogy on several occasions...avoided the law...and they
> are all over 17.
>
> Anyway...it was fairly cold in the morning so I wore unlined "dress" gloves
> to keep my hands warm. Only to discover that my grip on the wheel was
> VASTLY improved. Making me wonder why I have never ever ever worn driving
> gloves before...except in the dead of winter back east in my misspent youth.
> Ski gloves hardly qualify as..."wow i can really feel the wheel..." I ended
> up wearing the dress gloves all the way home even though it was 80F. No
> sweaty palms...no slipping on the wheel...but they are a bit bulky for
> "fingertip" type touch situations while driving.
>
> So...I'm asking...what do people wear...and/or recommend...for real driving
> gloves... I'm not looking for full Nomex gauntlet racing gloves...
>
> Thanks
>
> Trevor Fougere
> #3797
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