[DeTomaso] Anyone Know John Long? (SF Bay Area)

[Bill Lewis]

Mike, speaking of, "...ran a Pantera repair business..." - why is there not a national-size Pantera vendor in Texas?  I tried to get John Taphorn to quit his day job....   :)
Thanks, Bill Lewis




> From: MikeLDrew at aol.com
> Date: Sat, 21 Nov 2009 23:44:44 -0500
> To: bjbstewart at yahoo.com; DeTomaso at realbig.com
> Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Anyone Know John Long? (SF Bay Area)
> 
> 
> In a message dated 11/21/09 10 24 18, bjbstewart at yahoo.com writes:
> 
> 
> > He asks if I knew a John Long that lives in the Santa Cruz area,
> > off of Loma Prieta Ave near Summit Rd.  Apparently he has raced
> > Panteras and is racing a GT 350 now.  It sounded like he used to work
> > on Panteras in the bay area as well.
> > 
> 
> John's house was about 200 yards from the epicenter of the huge 1989 
> earthquake.   The house to the left, and to the right, were both reduced to 
> matchsticks.   His house got a good shaking but was mostly undamaged.
> 
> He has a big metal building behind his house where he used to work on 
> Panteras.   He had a windsurfer hanging from the ceiling; it rocked and swayed 
> and came undone, and the pointed end fell straight down, punched right through 
> the roof of his very nice Orange Pantera L, and wound up embedded in the 
> seat cushion!
> 
> He was a PCNC member for many, many years, they sort of lost interest and 
> dropped out.   He was a United Airlines mechanic, who ran a Pantera repair 
> business (Loma Prieta Pantera) out of his metal building, on the side.
> 
> Mike
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