[DeTomaso] Is A Pantera On The Freeway An Idiot Magnet?

[David in Durango]

Novato High, class of '66 - must have been Ray Hill writing the summons . . 
.



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Trevor Fougere" <trevor at fougere.com>
To: <detomaso at realbig.com>
Sent: Monday, February 18, 2008 11:39 PM
Subject: [DeTomaso] Is A Pantera On The Freeway An Idiot Magnet?


> You don't have to be on the freeway.
>
> Last summer...during the now famed Concours De La Garage...in Marin....I'm
> leading a parade of about 15 Panteras through downtown Novato to the
> restaurant where we are to have dinner.
>
> Half way down the main drag...through multiple stop signs...well below
> whatever the limit is...I pass one of Novato's finest watching us go past.
> I get down about another block and see that he's all lit up half way down
> the Pantera formation.
>
> I say to myself...damn...I hope he's not popping someone for making too 
> much
> noise.  Turns out I was wrong.
>
> Some bozo in a hyped up Camaro decided to light it up next to the
> Panteras....in full view of our local gendarme....and got popped.
>
> All I will say is....I creep in and out of this town whenever I go for a
> spin in the Pantera.  Forewarned is forearmed!
>
> Trevor
> #3797
>
>
> PS
>
> Gendarme
>
> * <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gendarme_%28historical%29> Gendarme
> (historical): a horseman, usually of noble birth, belonging to the cavalry
> of the French army in the late-Medieval to Early Modern periods of 
> European
> history
>
> * A member of a  <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gendarmerie>
> gendarmerie. The word is often incorrectly used in English to refer to any
> French policeman, when in fact it refers to a member of the military
> Gendarmerie
> * The French national police are the
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%BBret%C3%A9> Sûreté Nationale
>
> All of which has absolutely nothing to do with life in Novato, but it 
> might
> matter to Mikey the next time he rents a car in Europe....
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