[DeTomaso] A True Story

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Chuck,


Good work and I hope your efforts pay off.  Its often been said and proven to owners of other marques that Pantera owners are pretty much always willing to help each other.  One year in Reno for Sports Cars and All That Jazz, our friend had a problem with his Pantera so after getting help pushing it back to the hotel garage, several of the guys were down keeping him company and any help they could.  A couple walked by and curious as to what was going on, they inquired. When told they were just keeping their buddy company, this couple sold their Corvette and bought a Pantera.


On the Diablos, sorry to hear they have overheating probs; I drooled over the model when in Italy for the factory tour in '96 and one of the salesman let me sit in a gorgeous green one. Unfortunately the price of buying one would've meant we'd have to sell our house and live in the Diablo and I couldn't see any way to put a trailer hitch on it for the portapotty.  So I stuck with my green Z28 in the same color.


Judy





-----Original Message-----
From: cengles at cox.net
To: detomaso at realbig.com
Sent: Wed, Jul 28, 2010 6:56 am
Subject: [DeTomaso] A True Story



Dear Forum,

My buddy owns two Lambo Diablos. He used to own one of my Panteras. We were 
going to shoot from Oklahoma City to Ft. Worth via the back roads one recent 
weekend. His yellow one doesn't like to run in summer heat. It runs warm and 
sometimes it runs hot (does that sound familiar to Pantera owners?), so he 
doesn't like to drive it in the heat (he once commented to me that he was amazed 
that I was able to buzz around the city in the 450hp Pantera without it 
overheating!). That leaves the blue one. He drove about ten miles to rendezvous 
at my place for departure. He was late. He was overheated. His Diablo had become 
infected with electronic gremlins and its mighty V12 had limped along as a six 
cylinder with a computer controlled shut down of one bank. The Diablo's computer 
wasn't happy and Ray wasn't happy. He had to abort and limp back home. He is not 
intimidated by working on his cars and has done so in the past.

I spoke with him last night and reviewed the run to Ft. Worth. He told me that 
he was going to have his car hauled two hundred miles to DFW to the Lambo dealer 
for an electronic exorcism. He told me that he was frustrated that he couldn't 
fix it. He confided that he was very frustrated with the Diablo forums (and 
club???). He told me that a few years ago there was wonderful on-line help, 
discussion, etc. Nowadays, he says that the forum board seems devoid of 
activity. In his opinion the economy has caused a number of the owners to sell 
and has caused a number of Lambo independent shops (do they exist??) to cease 
the no-pay on line assistance offered in the past. He had received no reply to 
emails from past stalwart Diablo posters.

I told him that I knew of an Italian sports car that could be had in any 
configuration from stone ax simple to fully computerized and turbo charged. I 
told him that the club and forum were active in supporting owners. I reminded 
him that sports car was a Pantera. He sold his Pantera to me nineteen years ago 
before the Forum was running. After his tale of woe, I was grateful to own a 
Pantera and have membership in the Club and Forum. Thanks gang. I hope that he 
will seriously consider purchasing a Pantera. I am working on him.

Warmest regards, Chuck Engles

Raising Pantera Consiousness in Oklahoma!
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