[DeTomaso] Pantera Lust
cengles at cox.net
cengles at cox.net
Mon Jun 11 09:27:17 EDT 2012
Dear Mikael,
ROTFL! Thanks for starting the morning off in a
comical fashion.
Warmest regards, Chuck Engles
On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 8:00 AM, Mikael wrote:
> 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
>
> -----Oprindelig meddelelse-----
> Fra: Thomas Tornblom [mailto:thomas at hax.se] Sendt: 11. juni 2012 08:43
> Til: detomaso at realbig.com
> 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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