[DeTomaso] Pawn Stars

[michael@michaelshortt.com]

Ol' Shel is slick, doesn't he have a facility in Las Vegas, nothing like
free PR and a barn find deal is always a great story.

Michael Shortt

On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 6:25 PM, Will Kooiman <wkooiman at earthlink.net> wrote:

> It makes me wonder about the 427 Cobra shell they had on the show a while
> back.  It was too weird to believe.  Supposedly someone abandoned an
> aluminum body, Shelby, 2nd Generation, 427 Cobra (by Carroll Shelby
> Enterprises - not a replica, but not a 1st Gen 427 Cobra either).  The
> storage facility people took ownership after the owner went AWOL.  The Pawn
> Star people bought it for $20K.  Like I said, it was too weird to believe.
>
> They emphasized that it was real, and not a clone - at least that's how I
> heard it.  I don't think they even mentioned that it was a reissue - even
> though it was obviously brand new.
>
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> To: Dennis Yogi
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> Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Pawn Stars
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> Dennis,
>
> Say it ain't so, reality TV is fake?
>
> Like WWE wrestling?
>
>
> I produced a couple of them (Makeover show and a Judge show) and just
> turned
> down a new one
> ( trannies going to Hollywood to get discovered,)
>  I swear, it will be a hoot, just not my cup of tea)
>
>
> Tell them to use an actor to be the owner and skip the car's history,
> any screen time for the marque is a plus.
>
> they have the budget for the actor, they just wanted a pretty cool car
> plus the middle one, the guy who has both a father and a son
> will probably want to take it to an airport to drive it, just tell them
> that
> you'll do the stunt
> driving and he can be seen pulling away and pulling back in.
>
> leave some rubber for them to remember you by.
>
> Michael Shortt
>
>
>
> On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 5:07 PM, Dennis Yogi <dhyogi at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > There is a show on the History Channel called "Pawn Stars". People bring
> in
> > things to pawn at this downtown Las Vegas pawn shop. They like unusual
> > things with historic significance. Well, I got a call from the show's
> > producer asking if I wanted to put the 5-0 Pantera on it. It seems that
> > they
> > look for things to "fill" the shows airtime. Obviously they weren't going
> > to
> > pay my asking price and after some questioning, I found out that a lot of
> > the items that don't sell on the show are actually "staged" to make the
> > show
> > interesting. I thought it would be great free advertising but my wife
> > didn't
> > like the idea so we declined.
> >
> > The recessive economy has made the auto market very interesting. I keep
> the
> > 5-0 Pushbutton constantly advertised on Ebay and Craig's List basically
> to
> > see what offers comes in. I have been offered trades for lake front land
> in
> > Washington, various muscle cars, and even a Rolls Royce here in Vegas. A
> > German concert pianist didn't have all the money and offered me cash and
> to
> > dedicate an upcoming Buckingham Palace CD recording to me as trade!I am
> > currently negotiating two possible sales, one in the UK and one in Mass.,
> > we'll see.
> >
> >
> > Aloha from Las Vegas,
> > Dennis
> >
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