[DeTomaso] The DeTomaso Pantera 'Always Fights You'

[Jerry Knotts]

I didn't write it but I will second it.  I always feel like I am 
climbing into an Roth cartoon.  He always accentuated the wheels.


Also I have been called a "Rat Fink",
jerry knotts

On 8/19/2013 8:10 PM, Mike Drew wrote:
> That's a fantastic sentiment! But...who are you???  You didn't sign your name....
>
> Mike
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> Sent from my iPhone
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> On Aug 19, 2013, at 18:00, 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
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>> 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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