[DeTomaso] NPC Check Engine Light

[Bill Lewis]

But, Michael, how would you haul around all your lights, cameras, foo-foo girls, etc.??



> From: michaelsavga at gmail.com
> Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2011 12:50:45 -0400
> To: artstephens at verizon.net
> CC: detomaso at realbig.com
> Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] NPC Check Engine Light
> 
> 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
> >
> > --
> > Sean Korb spkorb at spkorb.org http://www.spkorb.org
> > '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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