[DeTomaso] Interesting Tidbit

[michael@michaelshortt.com]

That car was finished a couple of years ago, lots of modifications to it.
The finished product in orange and looks very nice, as good as a Bricklin
can look.

MIchael Shortt

On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 3:10 PM, Ken Green <kenn_green at yahoo.com> wrote:

> If you go here:
>
> http://ccr.tv/
>
> and watch the video, they show a Briklin they have been working on.  Still
> doesn't look "right" to me.  I think it's the lower body shape.
>
> Ken
>
>
>
> --- On Tue, 8/31/10, dickruzzindesign <dickruzzindesign at aol.com> wrote:
>
>
> From: dickruzzindesign <dickruzzindesign at aol.com>
> Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Interesting Tidbit
> To: tmshinro at aol.com, detomaso at realbig.com
> Date: Tuesday, August 31, 2010, 10:50 AM
>
>
> I knew Herb Grasse fairly well.  He was going to Art Center when the
> Mangusta came out.  He could not afford one so he named his son Sterling
> (his favorite race car driver), Mangusta Grass.  While working at Ford
> Design he bought one and it turned out to have belonged to Cassius Clay.  It
> was black and Herb painted it McClaren orange.  He did the trim and wheels
> in a light gray.  It was a stunning color combination on a stunning car.
>
> Herb came over one day to GM Design looking for a job, he had been fired
> from Ford for having parts for his car made in their shop, one piece was a
> Cobra style flip gas cap, that he installed on the Mangusta.
>
> He put an ad in the Detroit phone book for car design, the only person in
> there looking for that kind of work.  He then started painting graphics on
> trailers, campers and cars in his garage at home to earn money.
>
> One day his wife called him in for a phone call, someone was calling from
> the Detroit Airport, they found him in the phone book.
> It was Malcolm Briklins right hand man.  Herb went to pick him up at the
> airport in the Mangusta.  Did he understand what they wanted to do?
> I guess so, he was convinced before he met Herb.  The story of the Briklin
> goes from there.
> --
> All the best,
> DICK RUZZIN
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