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

[adin at frontier.net]

What I notice is people trying to get close enough to read the script  
on the back of the car.

David, scriptless



Quoting bill gaino <gaino at earthlink.net>:

> OK, I have a quick one! I'm in the left lane passing everbody,   
> coming up on slower traffic in the right lane. A pickup truck is   
> trying to pass on my right coming up faster on the slower lane. I   
> look over when he gets next to. Guess what?  He is taking pics! and   
> giving the thumbs up. Another time on instate 40 up the mountian,   
> nobody can touch me, coming down I have a minivan on my ass at 120.   
>  I say YES the Pantera is an idiot magnet.  Bill 1362
>
> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Peter Kovacs <peter-kovacs at sbcglobal.net>
>> Sent: Feb 18, 2008 7:52 PM
>> To: Jar <dimewagon at verizon.net>, detomaso at realbig.com
>> Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Is A Pantera On The Freeway An Idiot Magnet?
>>
>> IROC Camaro, late model mustang, and old pick up truck??? Its   
>> almost like you were there on the way back from the pcnc meeting   
>> with Bob Benson, Mark Tumbarello, Curt Hall and me after the   
>> November 06 meeting.....and one of the Panteras causing the   
>> commotion was on a trailer.
>>
>> Jar <dimewagon at verizon.net> wrote:   Hey guys--
>>
>> Have you noticed (of course you must have) that whenever you get out on the
>> freeways in your Pantera there suddenly appears race car drivers from all
>> sides wanting a piece of you? New Mustangs, beat-up IROC Camaros, low-buck
>> rice-fueled Japanese drifters, 80's Corvettes, hopped-up lowered F-150's,
>> Nissan Super Z's etc. etc. (it's never Porsches or Ferraris or anything
>> like that is it?)
>>
>> There you are, calmly, politely doing 80 - 90, not bothering anybody and all
>> of a sudden some crazy bastard pulls up next to you and darts in and out of
>> surrounding cars to keep pace, then pulls away hitting about 110+ and then
>> slows back down beside you as if to say "Come on, Mr. Hotshot Pantera! Show
>> me what you got!" You ignore him, he keeps pace again for a bit then
>> vrroooomm!! off he goes again, thinking he is on a race track, scaring the
>> crap out of everbody else on the freeway. And sometimes there's more than
>> one.
>>
>> (When I say 80 - 90, that's at 7:00 a.m. on a Sunday morning and most
>> certainly I do not swerve dangerously around cars, threading needles to do
>> it. So, you know it's not the pot here calling the kettle black.)
>>
>> But damn, these guys can be annoying! Because you know, I'd like to show
>> them what I've got....but the freeway just ain't the place.
>>
>>
>>
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