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

Sean Korb spkorb at gmail.com
Tue Feb 19 14:29:27 EST 2008


I just figure the worse they drive, the more they like the car :)

I was pursued once by a little white Honda with VTEC plastered on the side
in ghost writing last year.  I was going smartly onto the highway from the
onramp.  No cops.  No traffic.  I wound out second and then wound out third
gear and then took a peek behind me.

The little white car was small in the mirror.  But not small enough for my
liking.  So I started thinking about turbos and roller camshafts and EFI and
domed pistons and race gas and water injection and... and it made me think
about credit card debt.  I found out later that I was only running on seven
cylinders at the time (bent push rods) so I only had to rebuild my heads and
continue my life as king of the road.

But be prepared.  In this game, you will be slower than someone else, and
little white Hondas can be equipped with turbos and race gas too.  I don't
think I'll ever make peace with having "enough" power, but I have enough
style, and maybe with a little work, enough class :)

sean

-- 
Sean Korb spkorb at spkorb.org http://www.spkorb.org
'65, '68 Mustangs, '68 Cougar, '78 R100/7, '71 Pantera #1382
"The more you drive, the less intelligent you get" --Miller
"Computers are useless.  They can only give you answers." -P. Picasso



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