[DeTomaso] Reference needed

[Dick Koch]

Mike, I can always count on you to offer a little public dig when given 
the chance, even to a simple question.  In many ways that is what I have 
come to expect from you.  I love the third party reference to me in your 
post to the forum.

I do appreciate the bio on MM and will convey the information to my 
friend, as well as the link to the picture of MM with the Pantera on the 
lift.

By the way and since you seem to be up on the latest gossip, is there a 
problem between Mayberry and the Byars?  While it was a qualified 
"negative," Mike didn't give a good reference to Don.

Also, how is Weldon Brown doing and does he still have much to do with 
the Pantera community these days?

As always, keep reporting on your exploits and travels.  Maybe if I pay 
more attention to your posts and to the various forums I won't appear to 
be out of the loop on the latest and greatest, and some of the prior 
history of the Pantera community that I have missed these past 38 years 
of Pantera ownership.

Take care.

Dick

PS: Mike, with a little research, I found this post to the forum from 
2/2/98 on your registry entry.  How time "flies."

Capt. Mike Drew

San Francisco, CA USA

415/334-7860 (h/fax)

MikeLDrew at aol.com

POCA (Panteras of Northern California, Quarterly Editor) and PI

1972 Pre-L #3960 (July '72), yellow w/black trim, purchased with 71K miles in

1989, now fitted with new EVERYTHING!

Engine: 351-C with open-chambered heads, dynoed at 389 hp and 380 ft/lbs of

torque (300 ft/lbs at 2000 rpm!)

All-new suspension, racing brakes, replaced both floors (completely) and

right inner wheel house (rear clip from wrecked '74), all-new cooling system,

A/C, converted to L-model interior.

Apart since 1990, slowly coming together, hope to have on the road in 1998!


On 7/23/2012 4:20 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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