[DeTomaso] NPC Check Engine Light

Fri Oct 7 12:50:45 EDT 2011

Geez,

Let me see, around town mileage

Pantera = about 14 mpg
450SL = about 13 mpg
Magnum Hemi = 17 mpg
Excursion V10 = 12 mpg

It's official, I should just drive the Pantera all the time.

Michael

Looks like I should ask the wife to drive one of her cars or just ride my
M/C.

On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 12:32 PM, Art Stephens <artstephens at verizon.net>wrote:

> Sean wrote, "I like having one boring car".  I'm with you on that Sean! My
> daily driver is that new CRZ, it gets 38-39 mpg on my road trips. I figure
> my Pantera costs me about four times as much in fuel. So I go from extreme
> to extreme, one balancing out the other. It beats using my old 13 mpg GMC
> pickup as the daily driver, which meant that between the Pantera and the
> truck, my city fuel economy was about 11 mpg. :-[[  And you know, the CRZ
> is
> slow but it is fun on the twisties.
>
> Art
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sean Korb
> Sent: Friday, October 07, 2011 7:17 AM
> To: List Pantera
> Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] NPC Check Engine Light
>
> On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 8:58 AM, Will Kooiman <wkooiman at earthlink.net>
> wrote:
>  BTW... it is a boring car.  It's very cheap and reliable, but
> > very boring.
>
> Just an uninvited comment... I *like* having one boring car.
> Dreadfully horribly boring.  I think that might make me boring too.
> But I need something liek a washing machine to get back and forth to
> work, and though having an exciting car for that purpose is what I
> used to dream of (and live for a time) I find that my limited
> enjoyment of an exciting car in commuter traffic really is
> frustrating.  I drive my little Del Sol back and forth and back and
> forth, in blearey eyed mornings and exhausted afternoons, grocery
> shopping and driving the kid to practice.  Boring boring boring.  But
> it's cheeeeeap! And it just keeps running without complaint.
>
> I have become what I despise.  A boring person with boring thoughts
> and boring chores.  But I do have a few fun toys and my boring life
> doesn't distract me too much from that :)
>
> sean
>
> --
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> '65,'68 Mustangs,'68 Cougar,'78 R100/7,'60 Metro,'59 A35,'71 Pantera #1382
> "The more you drive, the less intelligent you get" --Miller
> "Computers are useless.  They can only give you answers." -P. Picasso
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