[DeTomaso] Straight up.....

[michael frazier]

Come to TEXAS and do that for 118 miles through the mountaind and valleys....at least once.
Big Bend Open Road Race is on 25 April 2009.
Michael
Gruppo Rompiculi Corsa> From: MikeLDrew at aol.com> Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 02:36:50 -0500> To: detomaso at realbig.com> Subject: [DeTomaso] Straight up.....> > Hi guys,> > On Saturday, I drove my Pantera up to Yuba City (which is hardly a city at > all), where a friend of mine owns a muffler shop. I went up there to gut my > Euro GTS mufflers and free up all the horsepower they are robbing. More on > that later, but I just wanted to talk about my drive home.> > There are really no direct roads from my house to Yuba City, and the only > options are going a very roundabout route on freeways, or a somewhat more direct > routing on two-lane roads. It shouldn't take much of guess to know which way > I chose.> > These were not mountain roads, but rather extremely flat roads through > farmland, sometimes gently curving as they followed the path of a river, but mostly > going straight in between fields. I was coming home in the middle of the > night (approaching midnight), on totally empty two-lane roads that were mostly > straight and flat, with nary a soul around. I wasn't paying too much attention > to the gauges; instead I was enjoying the exhaust sound (hardly changed at > all inside the car) and the view. Eventually I looked down and saw that both > needles were pointed straight up. 4000+ rpm, about 105 mph, in a 55 mph zone.> > That is really where a Pantera comes into its own.> > I drove that way for quite a few miles, really enjoying the car, and the > drive. I did note that the windows were fogging up because I still haven't > installed the heater hoses, and eventually I had to slow down and wipe the inside > of the glass a bit. Just about then I got to the freeway, and had an > uneventful drive home the rest of the way, moving just faster than the flow of traffic > around me.> > Now, days later, I'm still smiling at the thought of those few minutes spent > flying across the central valley, needles pointing skyward...:>)> > Mike> > > **************> The year's hottest artists on the red carpet at the Grammy > Awards. AOL Music takes you there. > (http://music.aol.com/grammys?ncid=emlcntusmusi00000002)> _______________________________________________> > Detomaso Forum Managed by POCA> > Archive Search Engine Now Available at http://www.realbig.com/detomaso/> > DeTomaso mailing list> DeTomaso at list.realbig.com> http://list.realbig.com/mailman/listinfo/detomaso
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