[DeTomaso] Low Mileage Goose (<7K) for sale!

[Mike Thomas]

Dawg

Always good to hear someone reminisce about Seattle.  George has since sold
his shop AND Pantera, but it's in good hands.  A fellow named Bob Leenstra
picked it up, and not cheaply, to add to his collection.  A few from his
collection that I've seen/am aware of

George's Pantera
Shelby 427 Cobra recreation #CSX4031
1965 Shelby GT-350
1966 Shelby GT-350
1968 Shelby GT-500KR Convertible
1969 429 Boss, rare black early car with the NASCAR motor and rare 2x4 bbl
intake
1969 429 Boss, green
1970 429 Boss
1970 Boss 302
1971 428 SCJ Mach 1 (just happens to be the same yellow as my Pantera, or
close enough)

And there are others I've only heard of, and he drives all of them, though
they are all mint.  To meet this guy, he looks like a regular Joe in faded
jeans and car-theme T-shirt.  All his $$ an no attitude - it's refreshing.
He owns Fast Cats Excavating in Kent, WA.

Mike Thomas
Panteras Northwest

-----Original Message-----
From: detomaso-bounces at realbig.com [mailto:detomaso-bounces at realbig.com] On
Behalf Of Mad Dog Antenucci
Sent: Saturday, December 20, 2008 10:40 AM
To: steven.liebenow at att.net
Cc: detomaso at realbig.com
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Low Mileage Goose (<7K) for sale!

Those are all good reasons not to own a Mangusta! 

You can't do much about the internet phobia except put the 'old' non-using
owner's down and give their cars to someone who still has a pair who will
use, abuse, drive and race them. .;-]>

Thanks Steve and everyone else at PCNC and the other regional club chapters
who continually invite new or very old owners to participate in tech
sessions where owners can get much needed support. 

When I lived in Seattle in '85 and bought my Pantera one of my favorite
memories of living there was finding another Pantera owner named George
Dimoff who also owned a little repair shop at Top Hat in West Seattle.  I
hear George has since retired but he was the best and ONLY resource for all
things De Tomaso for the first year I owned the Pantera....okay, maybe Gary
Hall's full color catalog was the second! 

Dawg, who drove the Pantera this morning in blue skys and sunshine.  

steven.liebenow at att.net wrote: MD,

Yup!   Although this guy wasn't your typical owner, I'd put him towards the
top of the food chain, he was not afraid of doing it himself, as evidenced
by the E-type he was working on.  Just very particular about what he owned,
and what he drove. (He would take the GT-40 to the PA tracks...since it was
a proven (and somewhat historic) car and had papers...)

The Goose was being preserved, but needed lots of detail work to get off the
fuzzies that grow on a car when it isn't touched and farted in.... The
chrome gets crazed, the leather grows stuff, things stick together from lack
of turning...

Just owning a Goose sorta puts you on an island because you are one of so
few. Dave and Frank experienced the same simply by remote addresses in
tractorland.  Hell, when I was getting my car running, I would work the
mornings of the tech sessions on my car at home, then run down to the tech
session just to hang out! It wasn't until the final "drop in the motor" day
that some extra hands showed up, and it felt great!

I think a lot of older Goose and perhaps to a certain extent, Pantera
owners, suffer from a sort of internet phobia.  They were never raised with
it, needed it, so they get stuck in sort of a old school rut, not wanting to
climb out to see what is out there....they prefer sending letters, phone
calls, and if it takes a while, well so be it.

If I had not found the internet, I think my car would still be in
pieces.....! I bought my car just shy of 14 years ago (my how time flies!)
and because of the access to information explosion, I've been driving it for
some 7 or 8 great years, action packed with bad air cleaner elements,
cracked oil pans, and one helluvalot of fun!!!  I know I would NOT have had
the same quantity/quality of fun with the normal car clubs around here. They
are too busy thinking inside the box.

It's such a great day, I think I'll go out to the garage and see what I can
do to my new motor. It's been neglected long enuf.  It's not cold enuf that
I need a fire to warm things up, but it ain't a tropic zone either! There
are heads to torque, and intake to port match, and accessory drive parts to
fit....  I NEED to do something for the Goose today. I deserve it!

Merry Christmas Bubba, to youse and yours all!
Steve




-------------- Original message ----------------------
From: Mad Dog Antenucci 
>
> Suffering from lack of use says allot. . .Suffering from lack of other 
> Pantera or Mangusta ownership contact also doesn't help.
> 
> It never ceases to amaze me the guys who own a high performance car 
> who will not blink about spending $25K for a paint job but show up at 
> a track or open road race tech session with a car that is hammered.
> 
> Then again you have guys like Crazy Dave Dodek from Medamora Illinois 
> or Frank Cirrincione of Hendersonville Tennessee who have totally 
> dissembled and rebuilt everything on their Pantera's with little or no
support.
> 
> Mad Dawg Antenucci - 146 Days Until the NORC Team Pantera Racing "Go 
> Fast or Go Home"
>   
> 
> 
> 
> steven.liebenow at att.net wrote: I have visited this car, touched it, 
> and taken pictures, way back when I first obtained my car.  Original 
> owner car.... he traded in a Ferrari 275 I believe, when the Ferrari 
> broke down in front of the dealership that was selling them!
> 
> I think he's hopeful that the low mileage condition will recoup the 
> delta that he lost by not retaining the Dancing Donkey car....  $150K.
Ouch.
> 
> http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=16030573
> 3631
> 
> Still, a very nicely preserved car.  I sat in a very comfortable 
> garage with a GT40, two Corvettes, and an old E-type Jag when I saw 
> it.  Only thing this car suffered from, IMHO, was lack of use.
> 
> Steve
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