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

Fri Feb 5 15:31:58 EST 2010

I love that comment.

when you can feel you have been tru the custom , than you complain :-)

Torbjorn "stuck in the snow"
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jørn C. Olsen" <joernco at online.no>
To: "'Mad Dog Antenucci'" <teampantera at yahoo.com>; "'Ian H'" 
<ihannington286720mi at comcast.net>; <SOBill at aol.com>; <wdemelo at cogeco.ca>; 
<detomaso at realbig.com>
Sent: Friday, February 05, 2010 9:25 PM
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Customs/Boarder Gaurds (Little P Content)

> MD!
> Did the custom agent wear long rubber glowes and asked you to bend
> ower.........?
> If not, you have nothing to complain about!
>
> J.C
>
> -----Opprinnelig melding-----
> Fra: detomaso-bounces at realbig.com [mailto:detomaso-bounces at realbig.com] På
> vegne av Mad Dog Antenucci
> Sendt: 5. februar 2010 17:11
> Til: Ian H; SOBill at aol.com; wdemelo at cogeco.ca; detomaso at realbig.com
> Emne: Re: [DeTomaso] Customs/Boarder Gaurds (Little P Content)
>
> 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
>
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> 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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