[DeTomaso] What Do You Tell People??

[michael@michaelshortt.com]

well said....

On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 12:17 PM, Garth Rodericks <garth_rodericks at yahoo.com
> wrote:

> Truer words were never spoken!
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> We were at a gas station back in the crisp fall starting a fired up Sunday
> morning haul butt run through the
> country side. We tried to be nonchalant and relaxed about getting some gas
> in the Espada. I mix station extra
> with my home drum 110VP leaded. Well in this Cajun area we looked like an
> alien invasion and of course we did
> not have a bateau hooked up to the car.  So hard not to smile and be
> humble when all human kind come up in awe
> and ask some of the most unique and coo coo questions and they also feel
> so compelled to tell some of their
> wildest car stories, an instant bonding moment has occurred. I find myself
> in a place as a therapist and teacher
> with a captive audience. Such a cool place to be, pride and envy wind up
> not being the force but the creation of
> a automotive life form that glues all men and women together about their
> love of cool cars and fine
> memories/dreams are. Older black women tend to be the most outspoken and
> funny while the young white males are
> just to cool to be excited, dwebs.  Some ask you to open the hood, you do
> then they just stop talking and become
> overwhelmed and then just stare and dream. Then you fire it up and they
> just freeze and stare again, just the
> reason to take charge of the open road and give them a great 7,500 rpm
> Italian opera in the early morning. You
> know you gave them a buzz for a week or so, no telling what stories they
> told their buddies.
>
> I am just returning the favor of what I watched and heard in Italy back in
> 71 and 75 when these fine cars roamed
> the area and got me to go the path of automotive zen.
>
> I thank those that gave me these huge impressions.
>
> Jeff Cobb
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