[DeTomaso] NPC: Another reason to go to Sturgis Bike Week...

[JDeRyke at aol.com]

You're a new guy in Nor-Cal. Maybe Dianne Dean will re-run the famous 
'Nor-Cal Tank Tour' at a collector's estate in Los Altos Hills. He has over 80, from 
all different eras, all operational! Once a year, the owner has a 
'neighborhood' picnic, and rolls out a few tanks for car-crushing.... very popular with 
the kids.

Bit of trivia: Jacques has buyers scouting the world for these mechanical 
monsters and rumor has it                                                         
                                                                              
                                                                              
                                 when one of his finds landed on the S.F 
docks years ago, he nearly had an international incident. The thing was an 
Egyptian SCUD-carrier siezed in the 6-days war by the Israelis and subsequently sold. 
Until Customs checked it over, no one knew the 25-foot-long guided missle on 
it was live! Story is, the Feds 'decommissioned' it on the spot! He has the 
machine in his museum. FWIW- J DeRyke


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