[DeTomaso] Sinsheim Sights

[John Taphorn]

Mike says:

I also spotted a rather unusual Lamborghini Miura P400S.   Take a look at
it and see what struck me as unique about it!

Pantera radials, of course!

J,  Luv the Miura, T  Actually drove one once!


----- Original Message ----- 
From: <MikeLDrew at aol.com>
To: <DeTomaso at realbig.com>
Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2011 4:17 PM
Subject: [DeTomaso] Sinsheim Sights


> Hi guys,
>
> I got launched on a 30-day trip on the last Thursday in April, nominally 
> to
> support relief operations in Japan..   Imagine my surprise when I showed 
> up
> and discovered that the USA didn't have a plan in place yet, so in the
> meantime they sent me eastbound, on a vanilla Afghanistan/Iraq/Kuwait 
> mission.
>
> Things proceeded slowly; I spent all of last week camped out in the 
> English
> countryside due to a sick copilot, and am spending probably all of this
> week camped out in Germany due to a sick airplane (the nose landing gear 
> doors
> got all jacked up, and were so bad that they had to go to the big boneyard
> in Arizona, pull some doors from a junked C-5 out there, fly them to the
> depot in Georgia for reconditioning, then fly them out to us here for
> installation--itself a 36-hour process--so we'll be here awhile longer 
> yet).
>
> Today I jumped in a rental car with three other members of my crew and we
> blasted down the autobahn to visit here:
>
> http://sinsheim.technik-museum.de/en
>
> This place is simply amazing.   The cars in the museum are more than worth
> the price of admission, but then you factor in the motorcycles, airplanes
> (including both a Concorde and a Concordski, i.e. Tupolov TU-144), trains
> (lots of big steam locomotives), tanks and armored fighting vehicles, and 
> lots
> and lots of other mechanical implements and instruments, and you have the
> makings of a very full and satisfying day indeed.
>
> No museum of this caliber would be complete without a Pantera, of course!
>
> http://www.poca.com/index.php/gallery/?g2_itemId=30001
> http://www.poca.com/index.php/gallery/?g2_itemId=30005
>
> In this case, it's a 1984 Pantera GT5.   Unfortunately I wasn't able to 
> get
> the VIN for the registry, but perhaps it's already in there?
>
> I also spotted a rather unusual Lamborghini Miura P400S.   Take a look at
> it and see what struck me as unique about it!
>
> http://www.poca.com/index.php/gallery/?g2_itemId=30008
>
> By total coincidence, the day after I left on this trip, a set of Koni
> shocks arrived at my house destined for a Pantera owner in Germany that 
> I'd
> never met, named Volker Eschback.   My neighbor down the street was able 
> to
> intercept the package on my front porch and forward them on to him, and he 
> just
> got them yesterday.   As it turns out, he lives only 15 km from the 
> museum!
> So after our tour there, we went through the woods and over the hills to a
> tiny village where he has a workshop on the outskirts of town, and we got
> to hang out all too briefly (perhaps 30 minutes or so)
>
> http://www.poca.com/index.php/gallery/?g2_itemId=30011
>
> I had sent him some Gr4 steel flares a few months ago; he's getting ready
> to take the torch to the car and install them, so the car probably won't 
> be
> up and running by the time the big Spa Italia event takes place in June.
> Still, it was great to be able to meet yet another Pantera enthusiast; 
> even
> though our time was brief, we still had a wonderfully animated 
> conversation!
>
> We had to leave quickly because we had to get the rental car turned in
> before 6:00 p.m. or else we'd get charged another full day.
>
> I'm totally beat now (I was out last night until 2:00 a.m. partying with a
> group of 20-something Norwegian Air Force communications specialists I met
> in a bar) so I think it's time to call it a night!
>
> Mike
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