[DeTomaso] Customs/Boarder Gaurds (Little P Content)

Mad Dog Antenucci teampantera at yahoo.com
Fri Feb 5 11:11:16 EST 2010


When I lived in Seattle 25 years ago I used to drive the Pantera up to BC via Blaine all the time. Never had a problem on either side of the border.....

Mexico is a different story.....5 years ago when when Dick Drenske and I took the Pantera down to Ensenada Mexico to run in the La Bufadora Hill Climb and the La Carera road race one of the guys who had a vintage Porsche Carrera and a 18-wheeler car hauler was forced to turn around and drive several hundred miles out of his way to get across the border at a different entry point because TJ customs were being dicks about his not having title paperwork with him.

The only problems we had the same sunday were with US Customs coming back into the US. 
Customs agent said,

"thats a race car so why does it have license plates on it?'.....

So I said, 

'it only looks like a race car ;-) but its a street licensed California DMV and the car and Decate Beer sponsor decals and numbers come right off the car..........so now his feelings are hurt and he repeats what he said earlier and adds,

"Sir pull out of line".....

I'm thinking this could be better as we were going thru a TJ border on a late sunday morning with thousands of other idiots  backed up for miles.....I am thinking the inspection area might get get us through quicker.....Dick gets pissed off at me and says, "why do you always have to be such a smart ass?".......so we pull into inspection area and I am reassuring dick everything is going to be okay....and now Dick is NOT talking to me......I am sure Dick is thinking HE is gonna have to put the Pantera back together again after they pull the Pantera apart looking for the 10 kilos of Coke. ;-)

As we pull into inspection area I ask for the guys supervisor.....but now EVERY CUSTOMS AGENT IN TJ are milling around the Pantera like locusts......there are supervisors everywhere.....they want to look at the Pantera.....I see a ranking captain who looks cool and we start BS'ing about how the hill climb and race went and next thing I know the sea of cars and trucks part before us......that inspection car show saved us a couple hours in line......and Drenske gave the original customs agent a one fingered salute as we headed across the border. 

I love the Border Patrol....


Mad Dawg Antenucci 
Team Pantera Racing 
"No One Gets Out Alive"
www.teampanteraracing.com




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From: Ian H <ihannington286720mi at comcast.net>
To: SOBill at aol.com; wdemelo at cogeco.ca; detomaso at realbig.com
Sent: Fri, February 5, 2010 4:12:59 AM
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Customs/Boarder Gaurds (Little P Content)

A few years ago, I crossed the border into Windsor, Canada in my Pantera for 
an Italian car event.  The border guard asked me all the typical 
quetions.............Where are you going, how long will you be here, ect.  I 
told him that I was going to an event featuring Italian cars and even showed 
him the flyer and in the lane next to me there was an old Alfa heading to 
the same event that he could plainly see.  Regardless, he told me to pull 
off to the side to get further scrutiny.  A customs officer soon came out, 
looking all stern and official, and barked "Open up the trunk".  I opened it 
up and he  looked in and said "Oh!........You can go".    As I pulled out 
the Alfa pulled in!

What were they thinking!


----- Original Message ----- 
From: <SOBill at aol.com>
To: <wdemelo at cogeco.ca>; <detomaso at realbig.com>
Sent: Thursday, February 04, 2010 9:27 PM
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Customs/Boarder Gaurds (Little P Content)


>I just got back from the US from picking up my new Wilkinson  deep-dish GR4
> wheels and windshield and I was wondering ..... Are customs  officials 
> born
> as total pr!cks or are they trained to be that way?
> After  dealing with them and wiping my lips ( from kissing their asses for
> 1.5 hrs), I  find myself driving home dreaming about physically hurting 
> them
> and not getting  caught. Is this normal?
> Will
>
>
> Yup.
>
> SOBill  Taylor
> _sobill at aol.com_ (mailto:sobill at aol.com)
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