[DeTomaso] My Pantera--day 1

[MikeLDrew at aol.com]

In a message dated 2/2/11 7 55 56, julian_kift at hotmail.com writes:


> Well apart from the grainy nature of the photo I reckon that picture 
> could have been taken yesterday, you really don't look a day different.....
> 
>>>I've been rather fortunate in that regard!
>  
> Wait 1989 and you didn't have a driving license?
> 

Right.   I had less than zero interest in cars when I was growing up 
(shocking to consider now) and I adamently refused to get a license when I was in 
high school, because then my parents insurance would have gone up and I 
would have been expected to pay it!

I got a motorcycle-only license when I began riding at the age of 20.   But 
I had still never really driven a car, until I finally broke down and 
acknowledged that having a car would probably be a good thing.   So, I got a 
Pantera!   After I bought it, my girlfriend at the time took me to an open 
parking lot in a Datsun B-210 Sundowner (remember those?) and I learned how to 
drive a stick shift car.   Then I went back to LA and picked up the Pantera I 
had arranged to buy a few weeks earlier, and the rest was history. :>)

Mike