[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:
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> In a message dated 7/23/12 13 05 54, asajay at asajay.com writes:
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>> I'm sure someone like Mike Drew could give you the entire history in
>> one email.
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>>>> 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:
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> 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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