[DeTomaso] Pantera Lust

Mon Jun 11 09:00:02 EDT 2012

Not sure I should share this, it's so embarrassing. But why not, we're all family...

My first car was a Spitfire, and one evening I was parked in the woods with my girlfriend, when a policeman on a bike approached us on this normally deserted road. Don't ask for details, but we were not entirely in our seats in there, and when we very quickly wanted to be in our seats to address the nearing policeman in an innocent fashion, we happened to land in the opposite seat than normal. So my girlfriend was at the steering wheel. That was not good, because the policeman asked for her license and since she was not old enough to drive, we had to explain, how we had accidently switched seats. Well, with a good story to tell his colleagues later, the policeman saw no reason to charge her for driving without a license. He drove off, we switched seats and I drove the car to find another spot :-)

Yes, embarrassing owning a Spitfire, I know...

Mikael

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Fra: Thomas Tornblom [mailto:thomas at hax.se] 
Sendt: 11. juni 2012 08:43
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Emne: Re: [DeTomaso] Pantera Lust

Only in America.

Over here the officer would not have bothered with the teenagers, unless they were under age of course.

And officers are known to show thumbs up when they are working at an accident scene while a convoy of De Tomasos pass by :)

Thomas

2012-06-11 04:06, MikeLDrew at aol.com skrev:
> Hi guys,
>
> I was doing a homework assignment, leafing through back issues of the 
> PCNC newsletter that I've been creating each month since 1991, when I 
> stumbled across a short article I wrote regarding a day spent with Steve Mooney, who
> was/is a San Francisco police officer.   I had completely forgotten about the
> first (and by far the most interesting) part of this episode, and when 
> I re-read the story I knew it needed to be shared here.
>
> This took place in November of 1997....
>
> Mike
>
> ====
>
> Pantera Lust
> By Mike Drew
>
> It started out as just another ordinary assignment for POCA.   I was to
> meet up with the owner of a particularly noteworthy De Tomaso, and 
> arrange for a photo shoot in order to create a feature article for PROFILES, the POCA
> quarterly magazine.   Long ago I had decided that when Steve Mooney s GT5
> Pantera was complete, it would be featured in the magazine, so upon 
> hearing that it was up and running, I made arrangements to meet him 
> and drive to a scenic spot, camera in hand.
>
> Steve is a longtime resident of the East Bay, and said he knew some
> terrific back roads in the Oakland hills.   After a bit of freeway droning, we
> found ourselves on a twisty mountain road with a 35 mph speed limit.   Steve was
>  exercising  the car a bit, but not more than about 15 mph over the limit.
>    We came hustling around a corner, when we met a police car coming the
> other way.   Steve glanced in the mirror and said,  Uh-oh, he s turning
> around.   I m not going to make him work for it, I ll pull over at the next
> opportunity. 
>
> Around the next bend we discovered a very large pull-off area, and Steve
> quickly pulled off the road and drove towards the far end.   We happened to
> notice there was an old El Camino parked at the near end of this 
> pullout, but didn t take any notice of it.
>
> What we didn t know at the time was that inside this El Camino were two
> teenagers.   And it happened that these teenagers were both *completely naked!*
>    Furthermore, these teenagers were doing what all teenagers do when 
> they  re stark naked in an automobile in a secluded spot.
>
> The thing is, when the Pantera went rumbling past and came to stop some 75
> feet in front of them, the guy stopped!   He looked out the windshield and
> said,  Hey, what kind of car is that?    To which his girlfriend undoubtedly
> replied,  Huh?     Check it out, it s a bitchin  lookin  car, maybe a
> Lamborghini or somethin !    So the guy was looking at the Pantera, while his
> frustrated girlfriend was scowling at him, and thus neither of them 
> noticed the police car that silently glided to a halt behind them.
>
> The officer started walking up the road, and as he passed the El Camino his
> keen powers of observation led him to a startling conclusion.    Hey!
> These people are completely naked!     With instincts honed by over 20 years of
> law enforcement experience, he concluded,  This bears further investigation!
>  
>
> He had his ticket book and pen in his hand, so he reached out and 
> tapped on the window with the end of his pen.
>
> Reaction inside the car was immediate.   The guy looked over and saw a
> police officer standing alongside of him.   He immediately knew he was in
> trouble, because he had been Doing Something Wrong.   However, perhaps because
> seeing the Pantera had thrilled him to the point of distraction, or 
> perhaps because most of his blood was currently located in an organ 
> other than his brain, the guy apparently forgot that he was naked!
>
> He casually rolled down the window, and in his best singsong  Who, 
> me?  voice, calmly said,  Why, what seems to be the problem officer? 
>
> His girlfriend, in the meantime, was having an apoplectic fit, 
> frantically trying to conceal her obvious nudity, and began tapping her guy on the arm
> to get him to follow suit.   He was initially irritated at her incessant
> interruptions, saying,  Honey, I m talking to the officer here!    He finally
> glanced over at her, then noticed her state of undress.   He then glanced
> down and saw his similar state, and the realization suddenly hit!   DOOP!
>
> The officer retreated to a discreet distance to allow them time to get 
> dressed again, and while there, Steve went over and introduced 
> himself, and issued the Secret Handshake which indicated he was a member of the brotherhood
> of officers.   All talk of Steve s ticket was immediately dismissed.
>
> However, we stuck around chuckling while the teenagers were issued a 
> citation for indecent exposure, etc. and after they left, as a second 
> officer had arrived (this one on a motorcycle) we staged a nice photo shoot of Steve
> supposedly receiving a ticket from these two.   It s a perfectly classic setup,
> and the resultant photos turned out great!   Look for them in the next
> issue.
>
> The lesson from all this is, if you should happen to find yourself 
> being pulled over, do whatever you can to stop near people who are 
> doing something worse (or at least more interesting) than you were!
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