[DeTomaso] One-owner cars

Thu Oct 20 10:01:48 EDT 2011

Not one that I would make, seems like the word must be used around HIS
house.

Michael

On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 9:58 AM, Bill Lewis <lotus0005 at hotmail.com> wrote:

>
> Larry, and all - I hesitate to put this on (you never know who you will
> offend), but an example of "crazyness in America": a friend of mine teaches
> school and they were discussing animals, and the teacher mentioned something
> about coons (that's what we country folks call them: coons, possums, etc.),
> and she was called into a meeting with the principal, and a student and his
> parents.  The reason: the student was black and the word "coon" offended
> him, and he wanted an apology.  (Michael, is there a documentary here!)
>
>
>
> > From: larry at ohiotimecorp.com
> > To: tonydigi at optonline.net; JDeRyke at aol.com; michaelsavga at gmail.com;
> detomaso at realbig.com
> > Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2011 09:35:06 -0400
> > Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] One-owner cars
> >
> > << The universal question was "a what?">>
> >
> > Around 78-79 I bought a new (3,000 miles)Subaru AWD wagon (per-Forester)
> > with a very light hit on the RF fender for $600.
> >
> > No one knew what it was...
> >
> > Larry (racoons ate the car and killed it) - Cleveland
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: detomaso-bounces at realbig.com [mailto:detomaso-bounces at realbig.com]
> On
> > Behalf Of Tony DiGiovanna
> > Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2011 6:15 PM
> > To: JDeRyke at aol.com; michaelsavga at gmail.com; detomaso at realbig.com
> > Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] One-owner cars
> >
> > Another thing to consider:  Ford may have considered the import/exotic
> > Pantera a success risk of sorts (rightly so) and did not want to risk
> > associating it directly with their primary brand:  Ford.  So they may
> have
> > steered it to L-M.  You have to remember how foreign "Foreign Cars" were
> in
> > America back then.  I remember when my cousin bought an Audi and my
> > Brother-in-Law a Honda.  The universal question was "a what?"
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: detomaso-bounces at realbig.com [mailto:detomaso-bounces at realbig.com]
> On
> > Behalf Of JDeRyke at aol.com
> > Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2011 2:24 PM
> > To: michaelsavga at gmail.com
> > Cc: detomaso at realbig.com
> > Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] One-owner cars
> >
> > In a message dated 10/18/11 7:57:48 AM, michaelsavga at gmail.com writes:
> > snip.......
> > > Selling these through LM dealerships instead of Ford ( who had
> > > salespeople used to selling Shelbys, Cobras, HiPo Mustangs, etc.) was
> > perhaps the
> > > leading reason that sales were no more than they were, they simply did
> not
> >
> > > know how to sell them and attracted the wrong demographic....
> > >
> > >
> > MIchael, Ford's rationale was, L-M was selling the Capri (first made in
> > Germany, then in England) so Ford thought L-M knew something about the
> > foreign
> > car marketplace. That wasn't the only bad miscalculation FOMOCO made re
> the
> > Pantera.... J DeRyke
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