[DeTomaso] 40 and over the hill

[fastgrandma]

Dick, I like your reply!!  As GoNancy's MIL, obviously both Jack and I are in that 'mature' bracket, however if not for my (Jack was into hotrods at the time) interest in the Pantera and subsequently persuading Jack that I needed one, she and Mike would likely have never have met.


We've had the Pantera for almost 32 years now and as befitting a lady, you'll just have to go with my being mature now.  At the time we purchased it we had one married child with the others being teenagers.  BTW, Mike confided to us recently that he can't believe he'll turn 50 this year; all I know is I'm too young to have a 50 year old son - and he's not our oldest!  :)


Judy 





 GoNancy, I think there are quite a few of the folks that hang around 
this forum that one might consider "old."  However, I would phrase that 
as being more "mature."






-----Original Message-----
From: Dick Koch <arkoch at earthlink.net>
To: gonancy <gonancy at juno.com>
Cc: detomaso <detomaso at realbig.com>
Sent: Tue, Jan 3, 2012 6:07 am
Subject: [DeTomaso] 40 and over the hill


  GoNancy, I think there are quite a few of the folks that hang around 
this forum that one might consider "old."  However, I would phrase that 
as being more "mature."

As far as my introduction to the Pantera, while finishing out my two 
year stint in the army in 1969, I remember seeing the Mangusta and 
decided I was eventually going to get one (obviously after I got out of 
the army, since at a wage of $125 per month I wasn't in a position to 
buy one at that time).

Well, once I got out of the army and got a job, Ford announced the 
Pantera.  As I recall, I saw a writeup of the Pantera in one of the car 
magazines in 1970, and shifted my preference from the Mangusta to the 
Pantera.

To answer your question, "... how old were you when your Pantera was 
sold to its first owner?", and given I was the first and still the only 
owner of 6831, the answer is 32 years old.  My body may be more "mature" 
but my mind still thinks I am that young lad that drove the car off of 
the Cherner Lincoln/Mercury lot in McLean, Virginia, Sunday, December 
15, 1974.

Dick Koch - Atlanta

On 1/2/2012 5:50 PM, gonancy at juno.com wrote:
> On the same note, sort of, how old were you when your Pantera was sold to its 
first owner?  I was 12 years old.  Will YOU admit your age?
>
> GoNancy and still don't feel my age yet
>
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