[DeTomaso] Putting a small block Chevy.....Oh Really?

[adin at frontier.net]

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Everyone IS welcome to spend as they wish, and I encourage it.  But I  
don't have to like it.

David, still has bell-bottoms . . .





Quoting LaurieFerrari at aol.com:

> JZ...If what you say is the case, why then, I ask, why did my '00  stock
> Vette (full of my junk, probably my golf clubs and various  other   
> school books and
> meaningless but weighty paraphernalia, beat the  heck out of a 427 Cobra,
> whilst playing around on the streets surrounding  Fontana Speedway?   
>  Why?  And
> not a slacker's vehicle  either.   All I can say is I wondered what   
> happened to
> him; looked in  my rearview mirror, and he was wayyyy back.  Kind of  
>  weird for
> a racer  type p. man, wouldn't ya say? Next thing I  learned, he (no names
> mentioned in respect of the 5th  amendment)  replaced his glorious   
> (FORD) engine
> of which you  speaketh.. with something shall we say, more vivaciously
> allegretto.
> p.s. I didn't even realize I was exceeding the speed limit (by  much) but
> when you have batman's wings appearing magically from  nowhere,   
> evidently you can
> fly.    Not that I don't love my  Pantera mind you. Truly I do, it's gutsy,
> it's beefy, it's gorgeous, but,  where can one go in blocked stop and go LA
> traffic with a  beastly vehicle that shouldn't be harnessed to the point of
> idleness on a 24/7 freeway.... I entirely hate  that!!!!
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> [DeTomaso] Putting a small block Chevrolet in a 1973 pantera
> John  Zeedick _Pantera351C  at Hotmail.Com _
> (mailto:detomaso at list.realbig.com?Subject=[DeTomaso]%20Putting%20a%20small%20block%20Chevrolet%20in%20a%201973%
> 20pantera&In-Reply-To=d68.23226db2.34fd9df6 at aol.com)
> Mon Mar 3 14:10:05 CST 2008
> All:
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> Detomaso installed ford and hemi engines in a pantera after the deal with
>
> ford broke down. Lee Iaccoca looked into making the Pantera a viable
>
> Chrysler product and had a hemi installed. Detomaso also installed a bimmer
>
> motor in the first guara before switching to ford. I am a firm believer if
>
> the the maker of the car installed different makes of engines in his cars
>
> then it is fair game to install that engine in any model the company
>
> built...hence Pantera performances 427...etc etc...they are still FORD
>
> motors. I kind of like the idea of a Bimmer motor or Goran's Hemi for our
>
> Cats. If you want a chevy engine behind you...buy a factory five GTR, strip
>
> a corvette and get to work......but then a ford motor in a FFR
>
> GTR....well.....you know where this is going.
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> Power by Henry will always trump a chevy in my book
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> John Z
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