[DeTomaso] 2009 Fun Rally Location

[adin at frontier.net]

Hey Mark,

Can you set up one of those map thingies so folks can show where the  
Pantera lives?

With all due respect, I am betting there ARE cars outside of LALA  
land.  We can use the map to plot our demographic center . . .

David, never been to an event closer than 8 hours . . . .


Quoting JDeRyke at aol.com:

> An excellent synopsis of our past history, MD.
> We'd do well to remember the purpose of this event was twofold: 1- to get
> Panteras out of dusty garages and -2- to actually drive them on a   
> weekend jaunt
> to have fun (hence the name).   All the additional 'features' since   
> then (open
> track, car show, tours in the LV area, etc)- were secondary to the driving of
> your Pantera to a different city and having fun on the trip.
> A- The total number of Panteras in Southern California far exceeds any other
> area of the country so any event should be a reasonable drive for them.
> B- most owners won't drive anything more than a single comfortable day's
> distance- say 400 road miles & two tankfuls of gas (@18 mpg) on an   
> 8-hour one-way
> drive.
> Drawing a circle 400 miles in diameter around Los Angeles should mark out
> reasonable destinations for a well-attended rally. I realize that a 400-mile
> circle is not a straight line path. But it still shows a   
> "reasonable" trip given
> the parameters of 2 tanks of gas & 8 hrs of driving.
>
> Strangely, there aren't many large cities within such a circle: San
> Francisco, San Diego and Phoenix are within; Reno is slightly   
> further (Rand-McNally
> says 472 road miles). Las Vegas is within a 200-mile circle and proved to be
> roughly 275 road-miles for So-Cal denizens. Judy & I made the San
> Jose-to-Las-Vegas trip many many times- which was 455 road-miles on   
> 3 different cars odometers
> but Rand-McNally says 382- and 8 hrs with a lunch break and a potty stop
> during fueling. San Francisco is 50 road miles further and would have meant a
> second fuel stop for us. FWIW- J DeRyke
>
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