[DeTomaso] The DeTomaso Pantera 'Always Fights You'

Will Kooiman will.kooiman at gmail.com
Mon Aug 19 21:10:37 EDT 2013


Very well put.

We should, as a group, write s paragraph or two, similar to this, and put it on the POCA home page.

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On Aug 19, 2013, at 9:00 PM, audionut at hushmail.com wrote:

> Ha!  Wouldn't argue with that assessment at all.  MotorWeek's whining
> kinda sounds like me after I first bought mine.
> People always look at me funny when I tell them it took me about a
> year to feel comfortable driving it.  
> This is not a car for the faint of heart.  You gotta be a man.  You
> get in, lay on your back, fire it up and take charge.  ...or else.! 
> (Or else it doesn't really work right and you emerge from it
> frightened and defeated.)
> Not that my (mostly stock) car is even that fast.  There is just the
> sensation of it wrapping itself around you.  The motor, howling from
> the depths of hell, is strapped to your back.  The front wheels are
> your outstretched hands.  On each side of your ass are half-shafts
> poking out and big fucking tires are up around your ears. The driver
> loses his identity and becomes fused into the structure of the car. 
> You feel every pebble, every crack and crevice of the road.  You _are_
> the machine.
> Modern auto-tech, in my opinion, has largely engineered out this
> unruly sensation.  The Pantera, to me, was born in the sweet spot
> between old-school, rudimentary manufacturing and slick modern
> computer-built cars.
> Long live this beast and all those who love it and look after it at
> risk of their lives. 
> Sent using Hushmail
> 
> On August 17, 2013 at 6:42 AM, "Charles Engles"  wrote:Dear Forum,
>                 A short three and half minute video on Jalopnik from
> about
> 1988-89 (?) on Kirk Evans' gray market Pantera GT5S.   FWIW.
>                                Warmest regards,  Chuck Engles
> http://jalopnik.com/the-detomaso-pantera-always-fights-you-1155387090 
> 
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