[DeTomaso] Dinner with Claude Dubois tonight....

[MikeLDrew at aol.com]

Hi guys,

I'm about to head to the San Francisco airport to pick up Claude Dubois, at 
noon.   He's on a whirlwind car-buying trip, scooping up good cars here (not 
just Panteras) to export to Europe and sell them.   So we're going to be going 
to Speciality Sales in Pleasanton, and then Benecia (although we may not get to 
the Benecia shop until tomorrow).

We're going to end up at my house in Vacaville.   I don't know where we're 
going to go to dinner, but anybody is welcome to join us.   A meal with Claude 
is something to be remembered; he is a master storyteller, a genuine raconteur 
and dyed-in-the-wool rascal, with a perpetual twinkle in his eye that lets you 
know he's always up to something.

Like the time when he was racing a Ferrari 250 GTO on the Tour de France (a 
multi-day event similar in format to the bicycle race), and another driver was 
being a real jerk.   So on the second day, he got the nastiest, funkiest 
cheese he could find (and in France that's saying something) and hid it under the 
guy's seat, right on top of the exhaust system.   For the rest of the week-long 
event, the car smelled so foul that the event marshals could literally smell 
it even before it stopped in front of them.   The guy searched all over the 
place trying to find the source of the smell but never did, so he suffered 
through the whole event that way. :>)

I am told that today is some sort of holiday or something, and that dinner 
reservations at better restaurants may be hard to come by, so we'll probably 
wind up at someplace that's not particularly upscale, but definitely good, solid 
food.   Give me a call on my cell (707) 628-3317 if you want to hook up 
somewhere along the way....

Mike


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