[DeTomaso] Reference needed

[MikeLDrew at aol.com]

In a message dated 7/23/12 15 16 32, arkoch at earthlink.net writes:


> 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. 
> 
>>>All in good fun. :>)
> 
> >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.
> 
>>>I confess I'm not really up on that sort of thing.   Every now and again 
I'll hear one vendor grumble about another, but I try to stay above all 
that and not take sides.   I genuinely like all of them, and find it sad that 
they don't always get along with one another.
> 
> >Also, how is Weldon Brown doing and does he still have much to do with 
> the Pantera community these days? 
> 
>>>I know who he is but I really don't know him, nor have I heard much 
about him in recent years.
> 
> >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.
> 
>>>I'm still trying to catch up with you, but never will!
> 
> 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."
> 
> >>>Oh yes!   1998, 2008, I was only off by about ten years! :>)

Mike