[DeTomaso] NPC Check Engine Light

Fri Oct 7 12:59:33 EDT 2011

The equipment has trucks and trailers, the foo-foo girls used to ride with
me, some even sat facing forward, but alas, the late in life marriage killed
all that.

;-(

Michael

On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 12:57 PM, Bill Lewis <lotus0005 at hotmail.com> wrote:

>
> 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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