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

[scott black]

  Learning how to "navigate" the nuts was one of thefirst lessons that I had to learn when I boiught my first Pantera while living in Las Vegas many, many years ago.  I have always kept an extra eye out for the ones who disappear into the blind spot on the passenger side because they are tyring to figure out what the car is and (now) take a photo with their camera cell phone while driving.  
   
  Of course, "educating" wanna-be racers is always fun, too.  On a rally with the Ferrari club last fall, they mentioned that they wished I would bring my Pantera more often because it was easier for them to keep up with it in their 308's, 328's, etc.  If they only knew...
   
  Scott Black
   
  

adin at frontier.net wrote:
  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 :

> 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 

>> Sent: Feb 18, 2008 7:52 PM
>> To: Jar , 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 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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