[DeTomaso] BAD ASS!!! (NPC)

[MikeLDrew at aol.com]

Hi guys,

Lori and I went back to Europe last week, attending the annual Vintage 
Sports Car Club Prescott hillclimb in England.   I attended this event in 2005 
and was just blown away, so I had to take Lori to see it for herself.

According to UK Pantera Club secretary Roger Brotton, members of the VSCC 
are all "...mad as a box of frogs", and I can't disagree.   Here, check out 
this dude:

http://www.poca.com/index.php/gallery/?g2_itemId=36962

This guy is driving the hell out of a 1903 Mercedes Grand Prix car.   
Almost 10 liters, four cylinders, mountains of torque, skinny tires and wagon 
wheels.   He's driving right on the limit, hauling ass up a narrow driveway 
with guardrails and walls and steep dropoffs on both sides.   He has so much 
torque that he lights up the tires exiting the corners, and powerslides and 
drifts beautifully.

Did I mention that it is POURING with rain in this photo?   Did it stop him 
from running?   No sir!

At the end of the day, his wife appeared in his paddock with their modern 
Audi wagon.   Into it were deposited the helmet, driving suit, tools etc.   
He then put on his flat cap, tied a hankerchief around his face to protect it 
from bugs and hot oil, put on his leather gauntlet driving gloves, and 
DROVE IT HOME!

http://www.poca.com/index.php/gallery/?g2_itemId=36965

Can you imagine driving a 100-year-old Grand Prix car with no lights, no 
front brakes, and a top speed in excess of 100 mph on the back roads and 
freeways to get home, some hundred or more miles away, after beating the hell out 
of it on a hillclimb track for two days, in the mud and the rain?

This guy and this car are BAD ASS!!! :>)

Mike