[DeTomaso] Reference needed

Will Kooiman will.kooiman at gmail.com
Mon Jul 23 18:00:40 EDT 2012


According to Marti Autoworks, my car was sold new through Mayberry.

On Jul 23, 2012, at 3:20 PM, MikeLDrew at aol.com wrote:

> 
> In a message dated 7/23/12 13 05 54, asajay at asajay.com writes:
> 
> 
>> I'm sure someone like Mike Drew could give you the entire history in 
>> one email.
>> 
> 
>>>> I'm wondering what planet Dick has been living on for the past 40 years. 
> :>)
> 
> I must confess that although I've known *about* Mike Mayberry since the 
> first week I started shopping for a Pantera in 1989, I only met him for the 
> first time a year and a half ago.
> 
> The event was significant enough that I felt compelled to take a photo of 
> him, post it on my POCA album and make a post about my visit with him that 
> day, back in January of last year:
> 
> http://www.poca.com/index.php/gallery/?g2_itemId=28620
> 
> Mike was the owner of Mayberry Lincoln-Mercury, a very old-school, very 
> small family-owned L-M dealership in North Hollywood that has been in the same 
> location for 50+ years I think.   Totally different from the monster 
> mega-mart car dealerships you see today, this was located in a quiet neighborhood 
> on a shopping street--I think it was next door to a deli.   That kind of 
> place.   Beautiful old pre-war building too, as you can see from the photo.
> 
> When the Pantera came out, he got totally into them, and became somewhat 
> specialized in them.   While there were many other So-Cal dealerships that 
> were really on board with the whole Pantera thing, and in fact sold more cars 
> than he did initially, when the bloom went off the rose, the rest of them 
> bailed out on the cars (and the owners).   Mike ran around and bought up all 
> their parts inventories and kept on keeping on, and has done so ever since, 
> buying used Panteras, fixing them up and selling them, and also servicing 
> them.
> 
> Recently, he was one of hundreds of small-size dealerships that Ford 
> decided to assassinate.   Despite the fact that customers loved him, and his 
> dealership was a profitable business, Ford decided they had too many dealerships 
> and would only support the mega-monsters, so he was abruptly told that in X 
> days, he would be out of the new car business.
> 
> So he quietly folded up his shop, and everybody got laid off.   But he kept 
> all his Pantera spares and moved them elsewhere, and he is a frequent 
> seller on E-bay.   Too, he is always on the lookout for barn car Panteras, 
> project cars, etc. and will buy them up, fix them up, and then sell them.
> 
> I've never heard a complaint from anybody who ever dealt with him, and he 
> KNOWS these cars inside and out.
> 
> Shop with confidence. :>)
> 
> BTW I turned him on to an 18K mile barn car that had been parked in Salinas 
> (near Laguna Seca) 25-30 years ago.   He bought that about a year ago so 
> it's possible that he's finished the restoration and this is the car he may 
> now be offering up?
> 
> Mike
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